Helena Breck

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Helena Breck is a British actor, known for playing Elizabeth Willmott-Brown in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, and as the voice of NCR self-service checkout tills used in Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco supermarkets, with phrases including "Unexpected item in bagging area".{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10950089/Woman-behind-unexpected-item-in-bagging-area-message-revealed.html|title=Woman behind 'unexpected item in bagging area' message revealed - Telegraph|last=Gardner|first=Bill|date=6 July 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=30 July 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33719909/tesco-ditches-unexpected-item-in-bagging-area-at-self-service-checkouts|title=Tesco ditches 'unexpected item in bagging area' at self-service checkouts|date=30 July 2015|work=BBC Online|accessdate=30 July 2015}}

In 2015, Tesco announced that recordings of her voice would be replaced by those of a male actor.

She also played Sandy McCormick in Triangle, another BBC soap opera, in 1981.

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