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>Helen McCrory, English Stage and Screen Star, Dies at 52
>Alex Ritman 1 hr ago
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>Helen McCrory, the English stage and screen star who appeared
>in three Harry Potter films, alongside The Queen, Peaky
>Blinders and Skyfall, has died. She was 52.
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>Her husband, actor Damian Lewis, broke the news on Friday.
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>“Heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with
>cancer, the beautiful and might woman that is Helen McCrory
>has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from
>friends and family,” he wrote in a Twitter post. “She died
>as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky
>we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly.
>Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.”
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>A regular across stage, TV and film since the 1990s (her first
>film role was in 1992’s Interview With a Vampire), McCrory
>first made a name for herself in U.K. theater, landing a
>London Evening Standard award for best actress in 2002 for
>Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, and an Olivier Award nomination in
>2006 for As You Like It.
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>Following roles in Charlotte Gray and Casanova, her film
>career hit a high note with her portrayal of Cherie Blair in
>Steven Frear’s royal biopic The Queen, which saw her earn
>best supporting actress nomination in 2006 from the London
>Critics’ Circle. She reprised the role in the follow up,
>2010’s The Special Relationship.
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>McCrory had been due to play Bellatrix Lestrange in 2007’s
>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but was forced to
>pull out due to her first pregnancy (the role went to Helena
>Bonham Carter). However, she was later cast as Bellatrix’s
>sister Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
>Prince, and also appeared into the final two-films of the
>franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1
>and 2. Other notable films include Skyfall, playing a British
>MP, Hugo, as French actress Mama Jeanne, and the Alan
>Rickman-directed period drama, A Little Chaos.
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>In 2013, McCrory was cast in one of her most famous roles,
>Shelby family matriarch Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders,
>appearing in all five seasons of Steven Knight’s hit crime
>drama that have aired so far. Most recently she was seen as a
>lawyer in the hit ITV miniseries Quiz, based on the 2001
>scandal surrounding the U.K.’s Who Wants to Be a
>Millionaire? TV competition, and in the BBC thriller Roadkill
>alongside Hugh Laurie