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LAST UPDATE | 16 Apr 2021
ACTOR HELEN MCCRORY, best known for starring in the Harry Potter films and Peaky Blinders, has died aged 52 after a “heroic battle with cancer”.
Her husband and fellow actor Damian Lewis confirmed her death in a statement on social media this afternoon.
“I’m heartbroken to announce that after a heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from family and friends,” Lewis wrote.
“She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives,” he said.
“She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.”
— Damian Lewis (@lewis_damian) April 16, 2021
McCrory played the role of Polly Gray in the popular TV series Peaky Blinders from 2013 to 2020.
She also appeared in the final three Harry Potter films, playing the role of Narcissa Malfoy.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of our beloved Helen McCrory, who played Narcissa Malfoy with such depth and brilliance in the Harry Potter film series. She was a wonderful actor and a very dear friend; Harry Potter fans will miss her very much. pic.twitter.com/wXexuxFNyG
— Wizarding World (@wizardingworld) April 16, 2021
Tributes to a ‘gifted’ actor
Cillian Murphy has led tributes to his Peaky Blinders co-star.
She was a gifted actor – fearless and magnificent. She elevated and made humane every scene, every character she played.
It was a privilege to have worked with this brilliant woman, to have shared so many laughs over the years.
“I will dearly miss my pal. My love and thoughts are with Damian and her family.”
Actor Michael Sheen, who worked with McCrory on ITV drama Quiz, also praised her in a post on social media.
“So funny, so passionate, so smart and one of the greatest actors of our time,” he tweeted.
This really really hurts.
— Asa Butterfield (@asabfb) April 16, 2021
Thank you Helen, for your wisdom, your talent, your generosity. You lit up every room, and the world will miss you. pic.twitter.com/GV0eVMZ0Zv
James Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement they are “devastated” by the death of the “extraordinarily talented and gracious” actor.
Alongside a photo of McCrory, actress Dame Helen Mirren wrote on Instagram: “A great actress and a great person. This is so very very sad.”
Asa Butterfield, who starred as a young teenager opposite Helen McCrory in the 2011 big-budget film Hugo, tweeted: “This really really hurts.
Thank you Helen, for your wisdom, your talent, your generosity. You lit up every room, and the world will miss you.
Comedian John Bishop, who starred alongside McCrory in ITV drama Fearless, tweeted:
I am shattered to hear this news. Helen was a beautiful supportive person to those of us who had the honour to know or work with her. The world has just lost some of its sparkle. My heart goes out to Damian and the family, no words of condolences will ever be enough.
Actor Jim Howick, who worked with McCrory and her husband Lewis on the 2015 comedy film Bill, tweeted: “This is so shocking and sad. Helen along with Damien were both terrific fun on Bill.
“She was so generous with her time and her performance. I urge everyone to listen to her Desert Island Disks. What a talent we have lost.”
Comedian Matt Lucas, who worked with McCrory on the FeedNHS campaign to supply food for NHS staff amid the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic, tweeted:
Helen McCrory will be remembered not just for her remarkable stage and screen performances, but also for her selflessness and generosity.”
Personal life
McCrory was born in Paddington, London, to a Welsh mother and Scottish-born father and was the eldest of three children.
She attended school in Hertfordshire, then spent a year living in Italy, before returning to London to study acting at the Drama Centre.
McCrory and Lewis married in 2007 and share a daughter Manon, born in 2006, and son Gulliver, born in 2007.
With reporting by Press Association
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had a samsung for 2 years, got an iPhone and within half an hour was wondering why i hadn’t had an iPhone all along. Still streets ahead in my opinion.
Both are a waste of money. Huawei all the way.
I think Apple products are far superior to Samsung. Let the games begin!
Can’t fault them, they do make great products, iPhone 5s is a super phone and laptops are sweet especially the MacBook Air
What do i use my old iphone and ipads for? that cannot upgrade beyound 5.1 ios and therefore are useless all apps are 6 and over. Why do they make devices to survive more than 2 years when they are worthless after that. Thats where they make their billions i suppose.
Its called Planned Obsolescence. Good documentary regarding the above on youtube.
The most recent iPhone that is not compatible with iOS 7.0 is the 3GS, released in 2009, slightly longer than two years. It was compatible up until iOS 6.1.3 as far as I know.
And the iPad only came about in 2010
Cork’s Average Income rises again!
Think I’ll stick with the ol’ Nokia 3310, still going strong after 11 years
I hate that kind of arrogance where Apple think are the only company that are part of the ecosystem, when everything they do is built upon the shoulders of others – Their phones would be useless without the work of Ericsson, NSN & Huawei who share their knowledge to make networks available to all; their ipads and laptops dependant on the internet, built on open standards made available to all, the thosands of websites that are built without any help from apple; Music players built on the backbone of mp3 developers, and the app store built upon the millions of developers who didn’t work on the 10 or so apps that apple have developed.
Like or loathe their products (I like them), Apple as a company are the Disney corporation of the 21st century, and will stiffle creativity and originality through their obsession with cash and patents above openness and sharing. Eventually, they will just be a US only patent trolling company left behind by the rest of the world.
(nb: apologies for the rant)
Totally agree. I like apple products however not a fan of wallet gardens and will therefore not support them.
Giz a lend apple
I wonder how many Chinese lads jumped out of windows because they couldn’t bare to work in apple factories while an American corporate giant makes enough money to cure world poverty….
Foxconn dont just make apple products they make everything xbox one ,Asus motherboards
4
Oh go away Declan you miserable sod.
My god filthy rich.
But can it play snake
Doesn’t make me want my I phone any more..
Imagine if Irish Exchequer was receiving 12.5% of those super profits in corporation tax every year from Apple Inc?
Currently it’s circa 2%, and the Market Capitalisation of the company is headed towards $1 trillion, with Hard Cash on the Balance Sheet of $150 bn.
Great News for Shareholders, but is it good for Society in general that such cash piles are building up in lots if international behemoths, as a result if low and inequitable CT rates. 10% extra filtering into Government coffers, would go a long way to addressing perceived unfairness of system for “stateless” multinationals. And Governments could apply those extra revenues for productive public works in their respective countries, thereby generating additional and essential economic activity, employment, taxes etc.
The tap of trickle-down economics needs to be turned on fully, to offer more hope to the masses in a broken economic world.
If our government got some of that money we wouldn’t see it anyway all the cronies would be looked after and that’s about it
It’s a year on but well worth a read, first one is Wall Street Journal, the second one is interesting to us as irish people. Of course tax avoidance is all right it’s the non regulated tax evasion that middle men dislike.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324787004578495250424727708
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-reduces-what-it-pays-in-taxes-2013-5
Apple . meh, its easy to see how they have massive profits what with obscene prices apple fan boys suck up to. Apple don’t do much designs in terms of electronics, its mostly outsourced but not to Samsung who rightly told them to fluck themselves.
If the lads up in the dall got their hands on that money they would just squander it
Get a life geeks…
Sent from my pink Tamagotchi
Apple . meh, its easy to see how they have massive profits what with obscene prices apple fan boys suck up to. Apple don’t do much designs in terms of electronics, its mostly outsourced but not to Samsung who rightly told them to fluck themselves.
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