Helena Smee

Helena Smee is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and writer who is best known for working at Hands Up Puppets with her husband, fellow puppeteer Marcus Clarke. She didn't perform in a lot of projects involving the Muppets, but she did perform Chelli in the UK version of Big Bag (which the Muppet Workshop built the puppets). Helena has also performed background characters in Muppet Treasure Island and Muppets Most Wanted, as both movies were filmed in the UK. Her latest puppetry work was one of the principal puppeteers in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, puppeteering various characters. Outside of Muppets and Creature Shop, she mostly worked at Hands Up Puppets. With her husband, they both have designed and built over seventy puppet characters for TV, and they also puppeteered on over seventy different children shows. Children shows like Playbox, Milkshake, and Dappledown Farm (to name a few). Throughout the years, Helena has done many different types of puppetry, from simple glove puppets to complicated animatronic puppets. I wonder if Smee ever feels impressed with all the puppeteering she has done. Helena Smee must be one of the luckiest people to have her own company like Henson. Helena Smee, keep making children happy, and show the world that Hands Up Puppets is another terrific puppet studio. Puppeteer on, you great performing lady.

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