Helene Whitney (born Kenyon Fortescue, July 4, 1914 – March 28, 1990) was an American actress who appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s.

[1][2] Through her mother, Grace Fortescue, she was a grandniece (and cousin twice removed) of Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone.

Through her father Granville Roland Fortescue, she was a first cousin once removed of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

[3] After her acting career ended, she became a Manhattan art gallery proprietor and artist in the 1960s.

[1] She died of pneumonia at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida aged 75 on March 28, 1990.