After completing a 2 year National Diploma acting course, Hungarian director Antal Kovacs picked her to play the troubled girlfriend of a drug addict in his final feature film Hwerow Hweg (2002). Helen attended the London premier at The Houses of Parliament, a first for any film in the world. It was also the opening film at the 2002 Montreal World Film and Television Festival. She was later cast opposite British actress Mary Woodvine in the award winning psychological horror The Lark (2007) which received praise for it's stark performances and came away with best film and cinematography prizes at a number of film festivals. More recently she appeared in pilot comedy series Living the Part (2013), emotional drama After Melanie (2016) starring Jill Greenacre and as one of the three sirens in the C. Thomas Howell mystery horror Siren Song (2016).