![]() In 1989 she was a researcher for an edition of the Thames TV This Week series "Where Hunger is a Weapon" about the Southern Sudan rebel war. She also wrote and produced documentaries in Africa for the first two Comic Relief fundraising broadcasts. In 1985 Fielding produced a live satellite broadcast from a refugee camp in Eastern Sudan for the launch of Comic Relief. She progressed to working as a production manager on various children’s and light entertainment shows. įielding began work at the BBC in 1979 as a regional researcher on the news magazine Nationwide. She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard.įielding studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford and was part of the Oxford revue at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival, forming a continuing friendship with a group of comic performers and writers including Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. He died in 1982 and her mother, Nellie, remained in Yorkshire, passing away in September 2021.įielding attended Wakefield Girls' High School, one of the Grammar Schools in the Wakefield Grammar School Foundation. Her father was managing director of a textile factory, next door to the family home, that produced cloth for miners’ donkey jackets. Biography įielding grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, a textile town on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England. In December 2016, the BBC's Woman's Hour included Bridget Jones as one of the seven women who had most influenced British female culture over the last seven decades. ![]() In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Fielding was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. On 11 October 2016, and the publication of Fielding's sixth novel, Bridget Jones' Baby: the Diaries based on Fielding's original columns in The Independent newspaper on which the movie - which broke UK box office records - was based. Late 2016 saw the release of the third movie: Bridget Jones's Baby. In her review for The New York Times review, Sarah Lyall called the novel "sharp and humorous" and said that Fielding had "allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before". It occupied the number one spot on The Sunday Times bestseller list for six months. ![]() īridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was published in autumn 2013 with record-breaking first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46,000 copies. In a survey conducted by The Guardian newspaper, Bridget Jones's Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century. The two films of the same name achieved international success. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty something singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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