Helen Ann Bauer

Helen Bauer (born Helen Ann Bauer, 25 March 1991) is an English actor, comedian, and writer known for her stand-up comedy in the UK and Berlin, Germany. The middle of three children, she was born in Wandsworth, London, to Ann and Michael Bauer and grew up in Fleet, Hampshire. She is of German heritage; her mother ran a drama school from their home, which Helen attended, and she was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2019.

Bauer moved to Germany at 23 and began her stand-up career there. She first came to prominence when she was nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award in 2018, and that year shared a bill at the Pleasance Dome during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She debuted her first hour-long show, Little Miss Baby Angel Face, at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019, earning a Best Newcomer nomination. Her subsequent shows have included Madam Good Tit (2022), Grand Supreme Darling Princess (2023), and Bless Her (2025); Bless Her, as a work in progress, won Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards in 2025.

Bauer has appeared on Extraordinary, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and Hypothetical. She created and starred in a sitcom pilot, Small Doses, for BBC Three, and starred as Pat in Sam Campbell's Channel 4 comedy series Make That Movie. She co-hosted the Daddy Look at Me podcast with Rosie Jones and the Trusty Hogs podcast with Catherine Bohart, and currently hosts the Helen's Log podcast. She has named Julia Davis as her comedy hero.