Helen Montagu

Helen Margaret Montagu (21 April 1928 – 1 January 2004) was an Australian stage producer, actress, and impresaria in London. She was the first woman to become a major West End producer.

Montagu was born in Sydney, daughter of an Australian banker. She attended Sydney University, where she met her future husband, a psychologist named Russell Willett; the couple married in 1953. Two years later she became head of Backstage Productions, later establishing her own eponymous company, Helen Montagu Productions.

She was the Royal Court Theatre general manager in the 1960s.

Montagu died, aged 75, from undisclosed causes in London on New Year's Day, 2004. She was survived by her husband, daughters Amanda, Sara and Louisa, and son Johnnie.