British actor Helen McCrory, who starred in the television show Peaky Blinders and the Harry Potter movies, has died aged 52.
Key points:
- McCrory played a succession of formidable and sometimes fearsome women
- She starred in The Crown, Harry Potter, Peaky Blinders and Hugo
- Peers praised her as "one of the greatest actors of our time"
Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, said McCrory died "peacefully at home" after a "heroic battle with cancer."
"She died as she lived. Fearlessly," Lewis wrote on Twitter.
"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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McCrory was one of Britain's most respected actors, making her mark by playing a succession of formidable and sometimes fearsome women.
She played the matriarch of a crime family on Peaky Blinders and the scheming Voldemort ally Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies.
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)Cillian Murphy, who plays the central role of gangland boss Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, set in the early 20th-century English underworld, said he was "broken-hearted to lose such a dear friend."
"Helen was a beautiful, caring, funny, compassionate human being," Murphy said in a statement.
"She was also a gifted actor — fearless and magnificent.
"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."
McCrory also starred as a human rights lawyer dragged into international intrigue in the TV thriller Fearless, played lawyer Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the 2006 movie The Queen, and had roles in Martin Scorsese's film Hugo and the James Bond thriller Skyfall.
Actor Michael Sheen, who played Tony Blair in The Queen, said McCrory was "so funny, so passionate, so smart and one of the greatest actors of our time."
Harry Potter author JK Rowling tweeted that she was "devastated to learn of the death of Helen McCrory, an extraordinary actress and a wonderful woman who's left us far too soon."
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New Zealand actor Sam Neill also paid tribute to McCrory on Twitter.
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Onstage, McCrory's roles included the vengeful Greek heroine Medea at the National Theatre in 2014.
At the same theater, she excelled as a woman caught between a dull husband and a feckless lover in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea in 2016.
While many performers struggle to find meaty female roles in film and television, McCrory played a string of them.
"Having said that, there are a lot of things I turn down," she said in 2016, describing the sort of roles where "all your lines are 'But what did you do at work?' 'That's so clever, darling.′ 'How did you do that?' 'And then what did you do?'"
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