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|episodecount= 63 <br/> 2 TV movies
|gender=Female
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|occupation= Corporate lawyer at [[Vitale, Horowitz, Riordan, Schrecter, Schrecter, and Schrecter]]
|family= [[Jake Morgendorffer]] (husband) <br/> [[Daria Morgendorffer]] (daughter) <br/> [[Quinn Morgendorffer]] (daughter) <br/> [[Amy Barksdale]] (sister) <br/> [[Rita Barksdale]] (sister) <br/> [[Erin Chambers]] (niece) <br/> [[Grandma Barksdale]] (mother, name unknown) <br/> [[Ruth Morgendorffer]] (mother in law) <br/> [["Mad Dog" Morgendorffer]] (father in law, deceased)
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'''Helen Morgendorffer''' (née '''Barksdale''') is a character created for the MTV animated series ''Daria.'' A corporate lawyer, she is the mother of [[Daria Morgendorffer]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer]].
[[Glenn Eichler]] has said she was "45-46" in "[[I Don't]]", making her around 45 at the start of the show. [http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennanswers.html]
==Background==
Helen Barksdale's early years were spent in the shadow of her older sister, [[Rita Barksdale|Rita]], whom her mother spoiled rotten with attention and money. Helen grew up extremely resentful of being ignored but at the same time determined to be the best at everything she did, probably in hopes of one day winning the approval of her parents.
Once in college, Helen became a hippie and joined the late 1960s counterculture. While in [[Middleton College]], she met [[Jake Morgendorffer]] and the two began dating. Jake and Helen each had issues with their families and may have connected because of that. After college, the two moved into a commune with friends before getting married in June 1976. Helen enrolled in law school and, like her husband, rejected the hippie lifestyle and embraced the world of corporate America. She has, on occasion, felt guilty about not retaining her hippie ideals (though she gets over it quickly).
Helen became a corporate lawyer, a career that became the focus of her life. Even after she became the mother of two daughters, she continued to work at the expense of her family. While failing to make partner at the firms she worked for, Helen likely became the family bread-winner due to her long hours put in at work, though the exact amount that she earns in comparison to her husband is never revealed either in actual salary numbers or real work hours put in respectively with either parent. She currently works for a [[Lawndale]] firm called [[Vitale, Horowitz, Riordan, Schrecter, Schrecter, and Schrecter]].
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==Trivia==
Helen Morgendorffer is voiced by [[Wendy Hoopes]], who also voiced Daria's sister Quinn and her best friend [[Jane Lane |Jane]].
While Eichler has said she didn't grow up wealthy, episodes involving Rita and the off-screen Grandma Barksdale make it clear that her family was (an expensive wedding is single-handedly funded by Grandma Barksdale, she can afford to send Erin and her husband to resorts in Switzerland at short notice).
Eichler has confirmed Helen ''will'' become partner: "she'll have to threaten to sue them for gender discrimination to get it. Eric won't speak to her for a year afterward. It will be the best year of her career." [http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennanswers.html]
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