Claim: Helen Anker has performed on the West End (a professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and around London’s West End), regional productions as well as UK tours.
Evidence: West End theatre, a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London, England Anker also performed in many regional productions and UK tours, including Judy Turner in A Chorus Line at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Mary Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life at The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, Meggie Cleary in the first UK Tour of The Thorn Birds, Ruby in Dames at Sea at Eastbourne and on tour, Masterpieces – A Noel Coward Revue, and Let's Face the Music and Dance in Salisbury. She has appeared in numerous London West End and Broadway musicals and plays, perhaps best known for originating the role of Zelda Fitzgerald in Beautiful and Damned.