Gender
Female
Born
Oct 10, 1900
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died
Mar 17, 1993
Nyack, New York, USA
Performer Producer
Also Known As
Helen Hayes Brown [Birthname]
Relations
Mother of
James MacArthur (adopted)
Wife of
Charles MacArthur (1928 - 1956) his death
  • CREDITS
    Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! (Jun 22, 1987 - Jun 22, 1987)
    Special, Benefit
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Performer - Original
    Harvey (Feb 24, 1970 - May 02, 1970)
    Play, Revival
    • Also Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Veta Louise Simmons - Original
    The Front Page (Oct 18, 1969 - Feb 28, 1970)
    Play, Return Engagement
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Mrs. Grant - Original
    The Show Off (Sep 13, 1968 - Sep 28, 1968)
    Play, Return Engagement
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Mrs. Fisher - Original
    The Show Off (Dec 05, 1967 - Jun 22, 1968)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Mrs. Fisher - Original
    We, Comrades Three (Dec 20, 1966 - Dec 1966)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Mother - Original
    Right You Are If You Think You Are (Nov 22, 1966 - Dec 1966)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Signora Frola - Original
    The School for Scandal (Nov 21, 1966 - Jan 1967)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Mrs. Candour - Original
    The White House (May 19, 1964 - Jun 06, 1964)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Abigail Adams - Original
      • Dolley Madison - Original
      • Rachel Jackson - Original
      • Mrs. Franklin Pierce - Original
      • Leonora Clayton - Original
      • Mary Todd Lincoln - Original
      • Julia Grant - Original
      • Mrs. James G. Blaine - Original
      • Mrs. Grover Cleveland - Original
      • Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt - Original
      • Edith Wilson - Original
      • Mrs. Benjamin Harrison - Original
    A Touch of the Poet (Oct 02, 1958 - Jun 13, 1959)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Nora Melody - Original
    Time Remembered (Nov 12, 1957 - Jun 28, 1958)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc - Original
    The Skin of Our Teeth (Aug 17, 1955 - Sep 03, 1955)
    Play, Revival
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Mrs. Antrobus - Original
    The Wisteria Trees (Feb 02, 1955 - Feb 13, 1955)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Lucy Andree Ransdell - Original
    What Every Woman Knows (Dec 22, 1954 - Jan 02, 1955)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Maggie Wylie - Original
    Mrs. McThing (Feb 20, 1952 - Jan 10, 1953)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Mrs. Howard V. Larue III - Original
    Mary Rose (Mar 04, 1951 - Mar 16, 1951)
    Play, Revival
    • Produced by Helen Hayes
    The Wisteria Trees (Mar 29, 1950 - Sep 16, 1950)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Lucy Andree Ransdell - Original
    Happy Birthday (Oct 31, 1946 - Mar 13, 1948)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Addie - Original
    Harriet (Sep 27, 1944 - Oct 05, 1944)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Harriet Beecher Stowe - Original
    Harriet (Mar 03, 1943 - Apr 01, 1944)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Harriet Beecher Stowe - Original
    Candle in the Wind (Oct 22, 1941 - Jan 10, 1942)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Madeline Guest - Original
    Twelfth Night (Nov 19, 1940 - Mar 08, 1941)
    Play, Revival
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Viola - Original
    Ladies and Gentlemen (Oct 17, 1939 - Jan 13, 1940)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Miss Scott - Original
    Victoria Regina (Oct 03, 1938 - Dec 1938)
    Play, Revival
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Victoria - Original
    The Country Wife (Dec 01, 1936 - Feb 1937)
    Play, Original
    • Produced in association with Helen Hayes
    Victoria Regina (Aug 31, 1936 - Jun 1937)
    Play, Return Engagement
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Victoria - Original
    Victoria Regina (Dec 26, 1935 - Jun 1936)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Victoria - Original
    Mary of Scotland (Nov 27, 1933 - Jul 1934)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Mary Stuart - Original
    The Good Fairy (Nov 24, 1931 - Apr 1932)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Lu - Original
    Petticoat Influence (Dec 15, 1930 - Mar 07, 1931)
    Play, Original
    • Starring: Helen Hayes
      • Peggy Chalfont - Original
    Mr. Gilhooley (Sep 30, 1930 - Oct 1930)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • A Girl - Original
    Coquette (Nov 08, 1927 - Sep 1928)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Norma Besant - Original
    Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 (Aug 16, 1927 - Jan 07, 1928)
    Musical, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes Brown
      • Original
    What Every Woman Knows (Apr 13, 1926 - Dec 1926)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Maggie Wylie - Original
    Young Blood (Nov 24, 1925 - Jan 23, 1926)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Georgia Bissell - Original
    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Nov 09, 1925 - Jul 10, 1926)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Maria - Original
    Caesar and Cleopatra (Apr 13, 1925 - Aug 01, 1925)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Cleopatra - Original
    Quarantine (Dec 16, 1924 - Apr 27, 1925)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Dinah Partlett - Original
    Dancing Mothers (Aug 11, 1924 - May 09, 1925)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Catherine (Kittens) Westcourt - Original
    She Stoops to Conquer (Jun 09, 1924 - Jun 1924)
    Play, Revival
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Constance Neville - Original
    We Moderns (Mar 11, 1924 - Mar 1924)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Mary - Original
    To the Ladies (Feb 20, 1922 - Jun 10, 1922)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Elsie Beebe - Original
    Golden Days (Nov 01, 1921 - Dec 1921)
    Musical, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Mary Anne - Original
    The Wren (Oct 10, 1921 - Oct 29, 1921)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Seeby - Original
    Bab (Oct 18, 1920 - Jan 01, 1921)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Bab - Original
    Clarence (Sep 20, 1919 - Jun 19, 1920)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Cora Wheeler - Original (Sep 20, 1919 - Feb 1920)
    Dear Brutus (Dec 23, 1918 - Jun 07, 1919)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Margaret - Original
    Penrod (Sep 02, 1918 - Oct 12, 1918)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Margaret Schofield - Original
    The Prodigal Husband (Sep 07, 1914 - Oct 1914)
    Play, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes Brown
      • Original
    The Never Homes (Oct 05, 1911 - Dec 23, 1911)
    Musical, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Fannie Hicks - Original
    The Summer Widowers (Jun 04, 1910 - Oct 01, 1910)
    Musical, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Psyche Finnegan - Original
    Old Dutch (Nov 22, 1909 - Feb 05, 1910)
    Musical, Original
    • Performer: Helen Hayes
      • Little Mime - Original
  • AWARDS

    Tony Award®

    Lawrence Langner Memorial Award

    1980 | Recipient
    Helen Hayes
     

    Best Actress in a Play

    1970 | Nominee  | Harvey
    Also Starring: Helen Hayes

    Best Actress in a Play

    1958 | Winner  | Time Remembered
    Starring: Helen Hayes

    Best Actress in a Play

    1947 | Winner  | Happy Birthday
    Starring: Helen Hayes

    Drama Desk Award

    Vernon Rice-Drama Desk Award

    1968 | Winner  | The Show Off
    Performer: Helen Hayes (Best Performance by an Actress in a Repertory Co.)
Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! (Jun 22, 1987 - Jun 22, 1987)
Special, Benefit
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Performer - Original
Harvey (Feb 24, 1970 - May 02, 1970)
Play, Revival
  • Also Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Veta Louise Simmons - Original
The Front Page (Oct 18, 1969 - Feb 28, 1970)
Play, Return Engagement
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Mrs. Grant - Original
The Show Off (Sep 13, 1968 - Sep 28, 1968)
Play, Return Engagement
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Mrs. Fisher - Original
The Show Off (Dec 05, 1967 - Jun 22, 1968)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Mrs. Fisher - Original
We, Comrades Three (Dec 20, 1966 - Dec 1966)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Mother - Original
Right You Are If You Think You Are (Nov 22, 1966 - Dec 1966)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Signora Frola - Original
The School for Scandal (Nov 21, 1966 - Jan 1967)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Mrs. Candour - Original
The White House (May 19, 1964 - Jun 06, 1964)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Abigail Adams - Original
    • Dolley Madison - Original
    • Rachel Jackson - Original
    • Mrs. Franklin Pierce - Original
    • Leonora Clayton - Original
    • Mary Todd Lincoln - Original
    • Julia Grant - Original
    • Mrs. James G. Blaine - Original
    • Mrs. Grover Cleveland - Original
    • Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt - Original
    • Edith Wilson - Original
    • Mrs. Benjamin Harrison - Original
A Touch of the Poet (Oct 02, 1958 - Jun 13, 1959)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Nora Melody - Original
Time Remembered (Nov 12, 1957 - Jun 28, 1958)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc - Original
The Skin of Our Teeth (Aug 17, 1955 - Sep 03, 1955)
Play, Revival
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Mrs. Antrobus - Original
The Wisteria Trees (Feb 02, 1955 - Feb 13, 1955)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Lucy Andree Ransdell - Original
What Every Woman Knows (Dec 22, 1954 - Jan 02, 1955)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Maggie Wylie - Original
Mrs. McThing (Feb 20, 1952 - Jan 10, 1953)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Mrs. Howard V. Larue III - Original
Mary Rose (Mar 04, 1951 - Mar 16, 1951)
Play, Revival
  • Produced by Helen Hayes
The Wisteria Trees (Mar 29, 1950 - Sep 16, 1950)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Lucy Andree Ransdell - Original
Happy Birthday (Oct 31, 1946 - Mar 13, 1948)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Addie - Original
Harriet (Sep 27, 1944 - Oct 05, 1944)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe - Original
Harriet (Mar 03, 1943 - Apr 01, 1944)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe - Original
Candle in the Wind (Oct 22, 1941 - Jan 10, 1942)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Madeline Guest - Original
Twelfth Night (Nov 19, 1940 - Mar 08, 1941)
Play, Revival
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Viola - Original
Ladies and Gentlemen (Oct 17, 1939 - Jan 13, 1940)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Miss Scott - Original
Victoria Regina (Oct 03, 1938 - Dec 1938)
Play, Revival
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Victoria - Original
The Country Wife (Dec 01, 1936 - Feb 1937)
Play, Original
  • Produced in association with Helen Hayes
Victoria Regina (Aug 31, 1936 - Jun 1937)
Play, Return Engagement
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Victoria - Original
Victoria Regina (Dec 26, 1935 - Jun 1936)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Victoria - Original
Mary of Scotland (Nov 27, 1933 - Jul 1934)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Mary Stuart - Original
The Good Fairy (Nov 24, 1931 - Apr 1932)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Lu - Original
Petticoat Influence (Dec 15, 1930 - Mar 07, 1931)
Play, Original
  • Starring: Helen Hayes
    • Peggy Chalfont - Original
Mr. Gilhooley (Sep 30, 1930 - Oct 1930)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • A Girl - Original
Coquette (Nov 08, 1927 - Sep 1928)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Norma Besant - Original
Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 (Aug 16, 1927 - Jan 07, 1928)
Musical, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes Brown
    • Original
What Every Woman Knows (Apr 13, 1926 - Dec 1926)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Maggie Wylie - Original
Young Blood (Nov 24, 1925 - Jan 23, 1926)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Georgia Bissell - Original
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Nov 09, 1925 - Jul 10, 1926)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Maria - Original
Caesar and Cleopatra (Apr 13, 1925 - Aug 01, 1925)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Cleopatra - Original
Quarantine (Dec 16, 1924 - Apr 27, 1925)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Dinah Partlett - Original
Dancing Mothers (Aug 11, 1924 - May 09, 1925)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Catherine (Kittens) Westcourt - Original
She Stoops to Conquer (Jun 09, 1924 - Jun 1924)
Play, Revival
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Constance Neville - Original
We Moderns (Mar 11, 1924 - Mar 1924)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Mary - Original
To the Ladies (Feb 20, 1922 - Jun 10, 1922)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Elsie Beebe - Original
Golden Days (Nov 01, 1921 - Dec 1921)
Musical, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Mary Anne - Original
The Wren (Oct 10, 1921 - Oct 29, 1921)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Seeby - Original
Bab (Oct 18, 1920 - Jan 01, 1921)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Bab - Original
Clarence (Sep 20, 1919 - Jun 19, 1920)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Cora Wheeler - Original (Sep 20, 1919 - Feb 1920)
Dear Brutus (Dec 23, 1918 - Jun 07, 1919)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Margaret - Original
Penrod (Sep 02, 1918 - Oct 12, 1918)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Margaret Schofield - Original
The Prodigal Husband (Sep 07, 1914 - Oct 1914)
Play, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes Brown
    • Original
The Never Homes (Oct 05, 1911 - Dec 23, 1911)
Musical, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Fannie Hicks - Original
The Summer Widowers (Jun 04, 1910 - Oct 01, 1910)
Musical, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Psyche Finnegan - Original
Old Dutch (Nov 22, 1909 - Feb 05, 1910)
Musical, Original
  • Performer: Helen Hayes
    • Little Mime - Original

Tony Award®

Lawrence Langner Memorial Award

1980 | Recipient
Helen Hayes
 

Best Actress in a Play

1970 | Nominee  | Harvey
Also Starring: Helen Hayes

Best Actress in a Play

1958 | Winner  | Time Remembered
Starring: Helen Hayes

Best Actress in a Play

1947 | Winner  | Happy Birthday
Starring: Helen Hayes

Drama Desk Award

Vernon Rice-Drama Desk Award

1968 | Winner  | The Show Off
Performer: Helen Hayes (Best Performance by an Actress in a Repertory Co.)

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