Helen Schlesinger

Actor 1984–2026 (42 year career)

6.9 avg rating

Highest Rated

Bad Girl

1992 · as Liz Marlowe

10.0

Ted Lasso

2020 · as Elaine Pinter

8.4

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

2014 · as Sicinia

8.1

Known For

Film

24 Hour Party People

Hilary

Film

Persuasion

Mrs. Smith

Film

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

Sicinia

Film

Dirty War

Nicola Painswick

Film

Ted Lasso

Elaine Pinter

Film

Merlin

Befelan

Film

Midsomer Murders

Serena Wyham

Film

The Greatest Store in the World

Miss Greystone

Filmography

Acting (24)

Movies (11)

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

2022

as Jane Jacobs

8.0

Albion

2020

as Katherine Sanchez

Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2018

as Gertrude

4.0

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

as Sicinia

Dirty War

as Nicola Painswick

24 Hour Party People

as Hilary

The Greatest Store in the World

as Miss Greystone

Persuasion

as Mrs. Smith

The Chocolate Acrobat

as Augusta Golightly

The Cormorant

as Jill

Bad Girl

as Liz Marlowe

Television (13)

Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms

2026 Upcoming

as Sister Monica Joan

Dec 25

We Might Regret This

as Dr Roscia

Ted Lasso

as Elaine Pinter

Merlin

as Befelan

Lewis

as Vivienne Tedman

Sensitive Skin

as Masha

Living It

as Vet

Waking the Dead

as Rebecca Jacobs

Bad Girls

as Tessa Spall

Midsomer Murders

as Serena Wyham

Trial & Retribution

Between the Lines

The Bill