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Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955 in Cheadle Hulme) is an English actor and comedian.

Helen Atkinson-Wood was a childhood friend of singer-songwriter Ian Curtis. She studied fine art at Oxford University. She also performed comedy with Rowan Atkinson, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she also met Ben Elton.

Atkinson-Wood is probably most famous for her role as Mrs. Miggins in television's Blackadder
but was also a prominent member of the cult radio comedy programme Radio Active, where she played the role of Anna Daptor, a role which was reprised in the televisual equivalent of Radio-Active, KYTV. She also appeared in the final episode of Joking Apart as a morning television presenter.

She has been a regular presenter for the Channel 4 series Collector's Lot. She has also made guest appearances on programmes such as Call My Bluff. She holds the record for the highest ever score in a single episode of QI, with 200 points, gained from a single question, regarding the chemistry of exploding custard.

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