Helen Pearson
16 November 1959
1986–present
EastEnders (1990)
Emmerdale (2000–2001)
Hollyoaks (2002–2017)
Richard Cadell (brother)
Career[edit]
Her first acting role was in 1987, playing a Nurse in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. 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[edit]
Pearson married in 2013.[1] In 2015, she was convicted for drink driving.[2] She is the older sister of Richard Cadell, the incumbent puppeteer for Sooty.