Date of Birth

7 December 1990, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Birth Name

Helen Joyce Flanagan

Nickname

Helz

Height

5' 3" (1.6 m)

Mini Biography

Helen Flanagan was born in 1990, in Bolton, Greater Manchester. She started taking drama lessons from the age of 5 at Carol Godby's Theatre Workshop in Bury. She was in numerous adverts, before landing the part of Rosie Webster in Coronation Street, in 2000. She expressed a great passion and talent for acting at a very early age.

Trivia

• Has a tattoo of Marilyn Monroe's face on the underside of her left forearm.
• Participated in the 12th series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (2002) in 2012, finishing 7th out of 12 celebrities.
• Has a phobia of heights and the dark.
• Daughter of Julia Flanagan and Paul Flanagan.
• In a relationship with footballer Scott Sinclair since 2009. They have two daughters together - Matilda Jessica Sinclair (b. June 29, 2015) and Delilah Ruby Sinclair (b. June 22, 2018).
• Was seven months pregnant with her daughter Delilah when she took maternity leave from Coronation Street (1960).
• Delivered her daughters naturally; Matilda's birth required an epidural and episiotomy whereas Delilah was delivered via water birth. Flanagan also breastfed both of her daughters.

Quotes

• Rosie (Coronation Street (1960)) is outrageous and such a madam and I love playing her. I get to do things that I would never dare do.
• I'm really proud of my boobs, and I'm grateful that I've got a voluptuous chest. It has a lot of power!
• I've never learned to blow-dry my own hair. When I used to work on Coronation Street I used to go into make-up in the morning and have my hair blow-dried and so now I prefer other people to do it.
• I really, really enjoy my photo shoots and I'm not shy, as everyone knows. It's good fun. If everything is really classy and beautiful and tasteful, I don't think there's anything wrong with sexy shoots. I think women should celebrate themselves as beautiful and sexy. It's a positive thing.