Helen McCrory, British actor, who played Polly Gray in ‘Peaky Blinders’ and Narcissa Malfoy in ‘Harry Potter’ series, died at 52, announced her husband Damian Lewis on Friday. 

Lewis on Twitter wrote, “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 friends and family. 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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McCrory also appeared in the James Bond movies such as ‘Skyfall’, Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’, famously played Cherie Booth, wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, in “The Queen” and “The Special Relationship”. 

McCrory rose to fame after her performance in the movie ‘Blood Wedding’, which won her the Best Actress Award in Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards in 1991. She starred in ‘Macbeth’ which won her Richard Burton Award For Most Promising Newcomer in Shakespeare Globe Awards in 1995. She climbed the ladder when she won the Actress of the Year award in London Film Critics’ Circle 1997 for her performance in the movie ‘The Fragile Heart’

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCrory and her husband Lewis supported Feed NHS, an initiative to provide food to NHS workers from high-street restaurants. They also raised  £1 million for the charity.