Prefer several girls, she wanted to become a ballet dancer, how to training at the Elmhurst School for Dance, however gave that idea higher while she was Seventeen in favour acting. She trained at a Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and then worked at a Glasgow Citizens Theatre from either 1992 - 1994. It was from either a Glasgow Citizens' Theatre that she was cast in the British Hospital TV Series Cardiac Arrest, although that was non her foremost television role.

She was a star of the popular TV series Cold Feet playing "Rachel Bradley", star of "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" playing Cordelia Grey, and notable guest star of the U.s. hit series Friends as Ross Geller's' girlfriend/wife/ex-wife "Emily Waltham", but possibly her virtually all cult TV role would become that of "Dr. Claire Maitland" inside Asystole. She was nominated for the BAFTA (Scotland) in 1995 for her role when "Claire Maitland" and for the British Comedy Award in 1997 for her role as Rachel Bradley.

More leading light roles include "Lorna Johnson" in TruthOr even Daring (where John Hannah also starred), "Caroline Meagher" in The Investigator, and "Julie Matthews" around "Dead by Monday." She was nominated for the BAFTA (Scotland) 1997 for her role as "Lorna Johnson". Dead by Monday won a Angel Award for Right Film inside a Monaco International Film Festival inside 2003 & the Portland Festival of Globe Cinema award for better feature in 2001.

She wwhen last around stage as Christine in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, however has played various roles including that of Ophelia within Hamlet (the Marovitz Hamlet) along by using Henry Ian Cusick. She was the finalist for the 1993 Sunday Days-Royal National Theatre Ian Charleson Award (right definitive actor under Xxx).

She besides played "Pandora Braithwaite" within "Adrian Mole - the Cappuccino Years" & "Maggie" in the multiple award-winning "Bolse Vita".

Helen Baxendale solved a quandary of mixing acting & maternity by running ahead & getting tykes anyway. Her number one gestation was written into an "Unsuitable Job for a Woman" & her 2nd was written into Cold Feet, even though her character, Rachel Bradley, was supposed to become sterile.

She was Non natural in February a 14th when a select few sources claim.