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A citizen of the United States, France and Spain, Helene Cardona is fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, Greek and Italian. Born in Paris of a Greek mother and Spanish father and raised all over Europe, she studied English Phi
lology and Literature in Cambridge, England; Spanish at the International Universities of Santander and Baeza, Spain; and German at the Goethe Institute in Bremen, Germany. She attended Hamilton College, New York, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, Paris, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James for her Master's in American Literature. A graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she also trained with Ellen Burstyn, Sandra Seacat, Sondra Lee and Susan Batson at the Actors' Studio (New York). She performed at the Players Club, The Actors' Studio, and with The Naked Angels and Ubu Theater Companies in New York. She played Françoise (Fuffi) Drou in Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (2000), Candy in Lawrence Kasdan's Mumford (1999), Mrs. Russell in Stealing Roses (2012). Among her many voice characters are Happy Feet Two (2011), The Muppets (2011), and Muppets Most Wanted (2014). She voiced the role of the French Food Critic in The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), of an International News Reporter in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), and of a BBC Reporter in World War Z (2013). For Serendipity (2001), she co-wrote with Peter Chelsom and Alan Silvestri the song Lucienne, which she also sang. She has lived in Geneva, Switzerland; Cambridge and London, England; Llandudno, Wales; Monte-Carlo, Monaco; Bremen, Germany; Tarragona, Spain; Paris, France; New York City and Santa Monica, and travels extensively. She is the author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry) winner of the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book, and of The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press). She co-wrote with 'John M. FitzGerald" the screenplay Primate, based on his novel.
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