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Helen McCrory almost turned down Peaky Blinders role due to Scottish roots
The half Glaswegian actress, who died at the age of 52 last week, said her family background made her wary of acting in yet another apologetic British drama .
Helen McCrory played Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders (Image: BBC/Caryn Mandabach/Robert Viglasky)
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Helen McCrory said Glasgow family roots almost made her turn down Peaky Blinders role
The half Glaswegian actress, who died at the age of 52 last week, said her family roots made her wary of acting in yet another apologetic British drama .
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Actress Helen McCrory, who died at the age of 52 last week, was half Glaswegian.
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Last modified on Sun 18 Apr 2021 12.49 EDT
Helen McCrory, who has died of cancer aged 52, was already established among the leading stage actors of her generation when she became known as Cherie Blair in Stephen Frears’s movie The Queen (2006), starring Helen Mirren, and with Michael Sheen as Tony; and as the witch Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco, in the last three Harry Potter films.
Her brisk and slinky Cherie Blair was one in a line of suited authority figures and lawyers played by McCrory, culminating in an acidulous, brutally frank but deluded Tory prime minister in David Hare’s television drama Roadkill (2020), refusing to give a “big job” to Hugh Laurie’s shameless MP. In comparison, Narcissa was a “turn,” a Gothic hoot, for all her verve and suffocating evil.
Helen McCrory with her OBE in 2017.
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Tributes have been paid to gifted Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory, who went to school at Queenswood in Hertfordshire.
The award-winning actress, who appeared in three
Harry Potter movies, has died from cancer aged 52, her “heartbroken” husband Damian Lewis announced on Friday.
Star of stage and screen, the much-loved
Skyfall actress was theatre patron at Brookmans Park school Queenswood, which she attended as a pupil from 1980 to 1986.
A studio theatre at Queenswood is named after Helen McCrory. She also opened the Clarissa Farr Theatre at Queenswood, and returned to the school in Shepherds Way in 2014 to adjudicate its drama scholarship auditions.