Título: Helen Fielding
Seção: Biography
Background: Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success.

Conteúdo: Fielding grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, a textile town on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England. Her father was managing director of a textile factory, next door to the family home, that produced cloth for miners' donkey jackets. He died in 1982 and her mother, Nellie, still lives in Yorkshire. Fielding attended Wakefield Girls' High School, one of the Grammar Schools in the Wakefield Grammar School Foundation. She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard. Fielding studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford and was part of the Oxford revue at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival, forming a continuing friendship with a group of comic performers and writers including Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson.  Fielding began work at the BBC in 1979 as a regional researcher on the news magazine Nationwide. She progressed to working as a production manager on various children's and light entertainment shows. In 1985 Fielding produced a live satellite broadcast from a refugee camp in Eastern Sudan for the launch of Comic Relief. She also wrote and produced documentaries in Africa for the first two Comic Relief fundraising broadcasts. In 1989 she was a researcher for an edition of the Thames TV This Week series "Where Hunger is a Weapon" about the Southern Sudan rebel war. These experiences formed the basis for her debut novel, Cause Celeb.  From 1990 - 1999 she worked as a journalist and columnist on several national newspapers, including The Sunday Times, The Independent and The

user: Where did Helen Fielding grow up ?

assistant: Fielding grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, a textile town on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England.

user: Where did she go to school ?

assistant: Fielding attended Wakefield Girls' High School, one of the Grammar Schools in the Wakefield Grammar School Foundation.

user: When did she start working ?

assistant: Fielding began work at the BBC in 1979 as a regional researcher on the news magazine Nationwide.

user: What else did she work on ?

assistant: She progressed to working as a production manager on various children's and light entertainment shows.

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assistant: From 1990 - 1999 she worked as a journalist and columnist on several national newspapers, including The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Telegraph.

user: Does the article mention her parents ?

assistant: England. Her father was managing director of a textile factory,

user: Does the article mention Helen Fielding's mother ?

assistant: her mother, Nellie, still lives in Yorkshire.

user: Does she have any siblings ?

assistant: She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard.