Helen Pearson


Helen Pearson is a British actress who has been in three major soap operas, EastEnders, Emmerdale, and as Frankie Osborne in Hollyoaks from 2002 until 2017.

Career

Her first acting role was in 1988, playing a supermarket assistant in Consuming Passions. She also played April in Eastenders in the early 1990s
She has also appeared in the television dramas The Darling Buds of May and Murder in Mind.
Before making her Hollyoaks debut, she also played the character Mrs. Atkins in Attachments.
On Halloween 2017, after having been the longest-serving female on Hollyoaks as Frankie Osborne for 15 years, the character was killed off and Pearson left the show.

Personal life

Pearson married in 2013. In 2015, she was convicted for drink driving. She is the older sister of Richard Cadell, the puppeteer for Sooty.

Filmography