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Helen McGregor (writer)

British actor, writer and lecturer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2022
Entity authorityQ5702816 ↗
Source-derived summary

Helen McGregor is a writer, actor and lecturer. Her first novel, the murder mystery Schrödinger's Baby, was published in 1998. She teaches film history and theory at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and the Met Film School, based at Ealing Studios in London. In 2010 and 2011 she performed a one-woman version of Richard III called Now is the Winter by Kate Saffin at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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The public source identifies “Helen McGregor (writer)” as british actor, writer and lecturer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Helen, McGregor and writer.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Helen, McGregor and writer providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q5702816. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Helen McGregor (writer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.