Helen Moulder was born in Brightwater, Nelson, New Zealand in 1947. She began her professional career in the UK in 1974, singing in musicals and pantomime and spending a year with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. In 1977 she returned to New Zealand where she has worked as a singer, actor and comedienne, in theatre, radio, television and film. She has also worked in Australia, Japan and in 1999 took her comedy show The Legend Returns to San Francisco. In the Chapman Tripp Wellington Theatre Awards, she won Actress of the Year 2000 for Vivian Bearing in the Circa Production of Wit and Actress of the Year 2003 for Sylvia in Meeting Karpovsky. She has co-written four plays - The Legend Returns, Meeting Karpovsky, Playing Miss Havisham and A Vote for Cynthia - the musical. The Legend Returns has been recorded by Radio New Zealand and is one of their most popular requests.