Helen Simpson

Helen Simpson was born on Dec 01, 1897 in Australia. Helen Simpson's big-screen debut came with Murder! directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1930.

Writer Helen Simpson was born Helen De Guerry Simpson in Sydney, Australia, in 1897. Her father was a solicitor and her mother the daughter of a member of the French nobility. When she was a child her parents separated; her mother moved to London, England, and her father sent her to a Catholic convent boarding school. In 1914 she traveled to England to join her mother and attended Oxford in 1915. In 1918 she joined the Womens Royal Naval Service, posted to the decoding section of the Admiralty, and returned to Oxford the next year. She studied music, intending to become a composer, but became interested in the theatre; she wrote several plays and founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society. She ran afoul of the college authorities, however, who had strict regulations about male and female students acting together, and left Oxford in 1921 without finishing her degree.