- Hélène trained as a dancer at the Music Conservatory in Geneva and the Salle Pleyel in Paris. She danced in Vera Krylova's Dance Company at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and continued training in New York.
- For Serendipity (2001), Hélène Cardona co-wrote with director Peter Chelsom and composer Alan Silvestri the song Lucienne, which she also sang.
- Sydney Pollack based the Nicole Kidman character in The Interpreter (2005) in part on Hélène Cardona's life by making her a Sorbonne linguist and a musician.
- Hélène's father is José Manuel Cardona, the renowned poet from Ibiza, Spain.
- Hélène's poetry collection Dreaming My Animal Selves won the USA Best Book Award in Poetry, the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book and the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry. It was a Finalist for the International Book Awards and the Julie Suk Award.
- Speaks six languages.
- Graduated from the Music Conservatory in piano in Geneva, Switzerland. Then studied under Maître Pierre Sancan at the Salle Pleyel in Paris.
- Hélène's poetry collection Life in Suspension won the 2020 Independent Press Award, 2017 International Book Award in Poetry, 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry, the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book, and the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry. It was a Finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Poetry and the Julie Suk Award.
- Lawrence Kasdan writes about Life in Suspension: "Hélène Cardona's poems explore the roiling mysteries on the indistinct borderlines of spiritual landscapes, natural elements, and singular private visions. Surprising, upsetting and, ultimately, uplifting".
- Olympia Dukakis describes Hélène Cardona's Life in Suspension as "Poems that explore whole worlds - embracing and beautiful".
- Hélène Cardona was awarded a Hemingway Grant by The French Ministry of Culture, the Institut Francais, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, for Beyond Elsewhere, her translation of Plus loin qu'ailleurs by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac.
- Chocolat (2000) author Joanne Harris hails Hélène Cardona's Life in Suspension as "A tour de force of language and phonetics; a deeply felt and deeply spiritual collection which explores the universal human experience from a very personal point of view. This is intimate poetry, and yet it transcends the mundane through its lyricism and its glory in language. Hélène Cardona's pen moves from the human to the divine and back in a single sentence, and the result is uplifting and magical".
- Graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Studied English Philology and Literature in Cambridge, and received a Masters in American literature from the Sorbonne, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James. Worked as a translator / interpreter for the Canadian Embassy in Paris and the World Energy Conference.
- For her role of Venus in Halo (2021), Hélène won the Golden Actress Award at the Golden Short Film Festival and Honorable Mention at the Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival. She is a Finalist for Best Supporting Actress at the Swedish International Film Festival and the Accord Cine Fest.
- Hélène wins the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2022 Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris; the 2022 Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards, the Virgin Spring Fest, the 2022 Indo French International Film Festival, and the 2022 Druk International Film Festival. She is a Semi-Finalist at the San Francisco Indie Short Festival.
- Hélène recurs as Monique in Season 2 of the series Upload on Amazon Prime.
- Hélène's translation Birnam Wood (Salmon Poetry) of her father's anthology El Bosque de Birnam (Consell Insular d'Eivissa) won the 2022 Independent Press Award and the 2022 NYC Big Book Award.
- Hélène wins the 2022 Best Actress Award at the V.I.Z. Film Festival, the Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival, and the Dubai Independent Film Festival.
- Hélène won the Vanguard Award in Filmmaking by an Actress at the Scotland International Festival of Cinema, Best Supporting Actress at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris and at the Lady Filmmakers Festival, for her role of Arlette Linstrom in the feature Caralique.
- Pulitzer Prize winner John Ashbery writes about Life in Suspension: "Dappled with transparent imagery, like the Mediterranean sunlight she grew up with, Hélène Cardona's poems offer a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse".
- Hélène won the Best Actress Award at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema for her role of Arlette Linstrom in the feature Caralique.
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