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Helen Fielding
Highest Rated: 80% Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Lowest Rated: 27% Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Birthday: Feb 19, 1958
Birthplace: Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK
She created one of the most beloved and controversial female protagonists of the 1990s in the smoking, drinking, perpetually-dieting and man-obsessed Bridget Jones. However, Helen Fielding herself, an accomplished journalist and former television producer when she began penning Bridget's misadventures, is a far cry from her insecure alter-ego. While defending Bridget as a comic character in the tradition of silly, shallow men like Bertie Wooster, Fielding also cites Jane Austen as inspiration. Her follow-up to the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999), was successful as well, and Fielding also worked on the screenplays for the film adaptations of both books.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 65% | Bridget Jones's Baby |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$24.1M | 2016 |
| 27% | 60% | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Screenwriter | $40.2M | 2004 |
| 80% | 81% | Bridget Jones's Diary |
Writer, Executive Producer |
$71.5M | 2001 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2013 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Herself (Guest Voice) | 2003 |