Helen Fielding
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish novelist and screenwriter (born 1958)
Helen Fielding is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper.
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I never imagined it would last more than a few weeks. I didn’t tell any of my colleagues it was me who was writing Bridget.
"I was working for The Independent when I started writing Bridget Jones", The Independent (26 March 2016)
I really wanted to smash the idea with this movie that there's a sexual sell-by-date for women and not for men, and stick it to the awful cougar stereotype.
Interviewed by Julia Llewellyn Smith, as cited in "Helen Fielding: 'I want Bridget Jones to smash the idea of a sexual sell-by date'", The
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Tim BevanAlso in Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Nico ParkerAlso in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
James CallisAlso in Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Sally PhillipsAlso in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Jason WatkinsAlso in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Celia ImrieAlso in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)About this person
Helen Fielding is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper. This turned into an unexpected hit, leading to four Bridget Jones novels and four movies.
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