Helen McCrory

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Helen McCrory Wiki Biography

Helen McCrory was born on 17th August 1968 in London, England, and is an actress probably best known for playing Cherie Blair in both films “The Queen” and “The Special Relationship”. She has also played Narcissa Malfoy in the last three films released under the franchise of “Harry Potter”. On television, she is one of the central characters in the series “Peaky Blinders”. McCrory has been active in the entertainment industry since 1990.

How rich is the actress? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Helen McCrory net worth is as much as $75 million, as of the data presented in early 2018. Film and television are the main sources of McCrory’s fortune.

To begin with, the girl was raised by her parents Ian and Anne McCrory, the oldest of three children, and grew up in numerous countries, including Norway, Nigeria, France and Madagascar as her father was in the diplomatic service. McCrory ultimately studied at the Drama Centre, which is a part of the University of the Arts in London.

Concerning her professional career, McCrory was nominated for the London Evening Standard Theatre Award as the Best Actress for her role of Elena in “Uncle Vanya” (2002), and was later nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in the West End Theatre in 2006, for her role of Rosalinde in the play “As You Like It”. In 2008, she played a fascinating Rebecca West in a production of Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” at the Almeida Theatre in London.

Her television work includes the role of Margaret Peel in the film “Lucky Jim” (2003), Lady Castlemaine in “Charles II: The Power and The Passion” (2003), and leading roles in the ITV miniseries “Anna Karenina” (2000) and “Carla” (2003). McCrory also appeared in supporting roles in films including “Interview with a Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” (1994), “Dad Savage” (1998), “The Count of Monte Cristo” (2002) and “Casanova” (2005). In “The Queen” (2006) she played Cherie Blaire, a role she once again took on in the sequel “The Special Relationship” (2010) by Peter Morgan. She was cast as main in the television film “We’ll Take Manhattan” (2012) by John McKay, and since 2013, she is a main character in the action drama series “Peaky Blinders” created by Steven Knight. Meantime she starred opposite David Threlfall in the film “Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This” (2014).

Regarding her other roles landed on the big screen, she starred in “Flashbacks of a Fool” (2008), however, her first pregnancy made her retreat from filming “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in 2007, in which she would play the role of Bellatrix of Detta (she was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter). Nevertheless, she later played Bellatrix’s sister, Narcissa Malfoy, in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, and also took on the role in the two film adaptations (part I and part II) of the last book. She was cast as a main in the award winning film “Hugo” (2011), and in 2012, she had a role in the spy film “Skyfall”, the 23rd in the Bond series, which also won a number of awards, received critical acclaim and grossed over $1.1 billion at the box office. The actress then starred alongside Phoebe Fox and Jeremy Irvine in the supernatural horror film “The Woman in Black: Angel of Death” (2014) by Tom Harper. McCrory joined the cast of the comedy war drama “Their Finest” in 2016. Recently, she landed a role in the biographical drama film about the life of Vincent van Gogh “Loving Vincent”.

Finally, in the personal life of Helen, she married the actor Damian Lewis in 2007. They have two children and are currently living in Los Angeles.

IMDB Wikipedia $75 Million 1.63 m 1968 1968-08-17 75000000 Actress Anne McCrory August 17 British Catherine McCrory Damian Lewis David Threlfall Drama Centre London England Gulliver Lewis Helen McCrory Helena Bonham Carter Ian McCrory Jeremy Irvine John McKay Jon McCrory London Manon McCrory-Lewis Peter Morgan Phoebe Fox Steven Knight Tom Harper

Helen McCrory Quick Info

Full Name Heath L’Estrange
Net Worth $75 million
Date Of Birth August 17, 1968
Place Of Birth London, England
Height 1.63 m
Profession Actress
Education Drama Centre London
Nationality British
Spouse Damian Lewis
Children Manon McCrory-Lewis, Gulliver Lewis
Parents Ian McCrory, Anne McCrory
Siblings Catherine McCrory, Jon McCrory
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567031/

Helen McCrory Quotes

  • There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
  • You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn’t notice on set that on screen: bam!
  • What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That’s what theater looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn’t have.
  • When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realized then a fantasist had been born.
  • You don’t learn from good people – they’ve found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: ‘Oh dear, I’m not going to do that.’
  • Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It’s partly that women are not losing their figures now.
  • I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.
  • The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.
  • If I were in politics, I’d make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It’s a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of.
  • I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theater. I was offered the lead in ‘The Seagull’ with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
  • I love theater because it’s just me and the audience. It’s the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
  • I love dressing up. But I’m very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I’ll choose something as quickly as possible and that’s that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.
  • I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It’s the same with music: I’ll play a record and think that I’m not really into country or ragga. But, if it’s live and the musicians are good, I’ll listen to pretty much anything.
  • I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else’s country, and you were aware of your behavior. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.
  • I really love my food. My favorite thing is artichokes. I am not so much interested in desserts or chocolate, though. I also like to cook with my husband Damian.
  • I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of ‘Performance’ called ‘The Entertainer’ with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
  • Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn’t it? I think that’s because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.
  • Appallingly, I hadn’t thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
  • Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
  • To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
  • My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
  • I’ve often sat down with people talking about a film I’ve been in, and they haven’t realized I was in it.
  • So often when you meet child actors, they’re weird – they’re freaks. No, I mean it, they’re really odd people.
  • It’s what people create that makes my heart stop.
  • I’ve become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.
  • I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
  • I used to say that theater was my favorite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
  • I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I’d look at women in their forties and think, ‘That’s the age I want to be.’
  • I love London, and it’s a privilege for my children to grow up here.
  • A script is only as good as the director who’s making it.
  • Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.
  • I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn’t go to university, so that’s my further education.
  • I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
  • As I’ve got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn’t want to tamper with it.
  • In the area we live, there’s a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That’s lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park.
  • Actually, I’m looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that’s when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.
  • I think it’s very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are ‘actors’.
  • America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It’s the most alien country I’ve ever been to.
  • I think change is good because it teaches you that it’s nothing to be frightened of.
  • People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: ‘I hope they’re doing well in school. I hope they’re bright.’ And I think: ‘Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?’ Academia is a lonely world.
  • What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.
  • A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theater, the Donmar or the National. It’s a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.
  • The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run.
  • What really matters to me is what my peers think.
  • People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
  • If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don’t think looks are important; I think what’s important is if someone is sexy.
  • If you’re constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?
  • I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
  • I’m a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
  • I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there’s no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
  • Theatre is liberating because it only works if it’s truthful, That’s what it requires. That’s not true of film: the camera does lie. You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn’t notice on set that on screen: bam!

Helen McCrory Important Facts

  • Her father was from Glasgow, Scotland and her mother was from Wales.
  • She and her husband Damian Lewis have portrayed real-life couple, Cherie Blair and Tony Blair on television movies. Lewis in Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007) and McCrory in The Special Relationship (2010).
  • She originally couldn’t take the role of Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) due to pregnancy and was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter. She has now been cast to play Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix’s sister, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).
  • Sister-in-law of Gareth Lewis.
  • Has two children with husband Damian Lewis, daughter Manon born on September 8, 2006 and son Gulliver, born November 2, 2007.
  • Engaged to actor Damian Lewis in February of 2006.
  • She was nominated for a 2002 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Uncle Vanya performed at the Donmar Warehouse.
  • She grew up in Norway, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Madagascar and Paris, among other places.
  • Daughter of a diplomat and a physiotherapist.
  • In her childhood she lived in Africa and Paris, and went to an English boarding school.

Helen McCrory Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Loving Vincent 2017 post-production Louise Chevalier Actress
Fearless 2017 TV Series Emma Actress
Their Finest 2016 Sophie Smith Actress
Peaky Blinders 2013-2016 TV Series Aunt Polly / Polly Gray Actress
Bill 2015/I Queen Elizabeth I Actress
Horizon 2015 TV Series documentary Narrator Actress
Penny Dreadful 2014-2015 TV Series Madame Kali Actress
To Appomattox 2015 TV Mini-Series Julia Grant Actress
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death 2014 Jean Hogg Actress
A Little Chaos 2014 Madame Le Notre Actress
National Theatre Live: Medea 2014 Medea Actress
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This 2014 TV Movie Mary Kay Actress
Inside No. 9 2014 TV Series Tabitha Actress
The Cabal Club (Soho) 2012 Short Stella Actress
Skyfall 2012 Clair Dowar MP Actress
Leaving 2012 TV Series Julie Actress
Flying Blind 2012 Frankie Actress
We’ll Take Manhattan 2012 TV Movie Lady Clare Rendlesham Actress
Hugo 2011 Mama Jeanne Actress
Phineas and Ferb 2011 TV Series Lucy Fletcher Actress
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011 Narcissa Malfoy Actress
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010 Narcissa Malfoy Actress
4.3.2.1. 2010 Mrs. Jones Actress
The Special Relationship 2010 TV Movie Cherie Blair Actress
Doctor Who 2010 TV Series Rosanna Actress
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Mrs. Bean (voice) Actress
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 Narcissa Malfoy Actress
Life 2009 TV Series Amanda Puryer Actress
Flashbacks of a Fool 2008 Peggy Tickell Actress
Frankenstein 2007 TV Movie Dr. Victoria Frankenstein Actress
Becoming Jane 2007 Mrs. Radcliffe Actress
The Queen 2006 Cherie Blair Actress
Normal for Norfolk 2006 Short Clare Actress
Casanova 2005 Casanova’s Mother Actress
Messiah: The Harrowing 2005 TV Mini-Series Dr. Rachel Price Actress
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking 2004 TV Movie Mrs. Vandeleur Actress
Does God Play Football 2004 Short Sarah Ward Actress
Enduring Love 2004 Mrs. Logan Actress
The Last King 2003 TV Mini-Series Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine Actress
Carla 2003 TV Movie Carla Actress
Lucky Jim 2003 TV Movie Margaret Peel Actress
Dead Gorgeous 2002 TV Movie Antonia Ashton Actress
Deep Down 2002 Short Dana Actress
Dickens 2002 TV Series Kate Dickens Actress
The Jury 2002 TV Mini-Series Rose Davies Actress
The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 Valentina Villefort Actress
Charlotte Gray 2001 Francoise Actress
In a Land of Plenty 2001 TV Series Mary Freeman Actress
North Square 2000 TV Series Rose Fitzgerald Actress
Hotel Splendide 2000 Lorna Bull Actress
Anna Karenina 2000 TV Mini-Series Anna Karenina Actress
Split Second 1999 TV Movie Angie Anderson Actress
Dad Savage 1998 Chris Actress
Spoonface Steinberg 1998 TV Movie Mother Actress
Trial & Retribution 1997 TV Series Anita Harris Actress
The James Gang 1997 Bernadette James Actress
The Fragile Heart 1996 TV Series Nicola Pascoe Actress
Forest People 1996 TV Movie Gloria Actress
Witness Against Hitler 1996 TV Movie Freya von Moltke Actress
Screen Two 1995 TV Series Jo Actress
Dirty Old Town 1995 TV Movie Claire Actress
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 2nd Whore Actress
Uncovered 1994 Lola Actress
Performance 1993 TV Series Jean Rice Actress
Full Stretch 1993 TV Series Vicki Goodall Actress
BAFTA Televsion Awards 2016 2016 TV Special Herself – Presenter Self
EE British Academy Film Awards: The Red Carpet Show 2014 TV Special Herself Self
The EE British Academy Film Awards 2014 TV Special Herself – Presenter: Cinematography Self
Muse of Fire 2013 Documentary Herself Self
Horizon 2008-2013 TV Series documentary Herself – Narrator / Herself – Presenter Self
Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2013 TV Special Herself – Presenter Self
56th BFI London Film Festival 2012 TV Movie documentary Herself Self
Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? 2012 TV Movie documentary Herself – Narrator (voice) Self
Breakfast 2004-2010 TV Series Herself – Guest Self
The Sex Inspectors 2004 TV Series Narrator (Series 2-) (2005-) (voice) Self
The Making of ‘Charles II’ 2003 TV Movie documentary Self
Pat Condell: Stand and Deliver 1998 TV Special documentary Christina Self
The Making of a Little Chaos 2015 Video short Madame Le Notre (uncredited) Archive Footage
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion 2014 TV Movie Rosanna Archive Footage
Sex: A Horizon Guide 2013 TV Movie documentary Herself – Narrator Archive Footage
The Making of ‘The Queen’ 2007 TV Movie documentary Cherie Blair (uncredited) Archive Footage
Becoming Jane: Behind the Scenes 2007 Video documentary short Mrs. Radcliffe (uncredited) Archive Footage
The Architect 2006 Anna Karenina Archive Footage

Helen McCrory Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2014 Golden FIPA Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming TV Series and Serials: Actress Peaky Blinders (2013) Won
2001 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Broadcasting Press Guild Awards Best Actress North Square (2000) Won
1997 BAFTA Cymru Award BAFTA Awards, Wales Best Actress (Yr Actores Orau) Streetlife (1995) Won
1995 Silver Nymph Monte-Carlo TV Festival Streetlife (1995) Won
2014 Golden FIPA Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming TV Series and Serials: Actress Peaky Blinders (2013) Nominated
2001 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Broadcasting Press Guild Awards Best Actress North Square (2000) Nominated
1997 BAFTA Cymru Award BAFTA Awards, Wales Best Actress (Yr Actores Orau) Streetlife (1995) Nominated
1995 Silver Nymph Monte-Carlo TV Festival Streetlife (1995) Nominated