Helen McCrory, famous for playing roles in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies and ‘Peaky Blinders’, passed away on Friday due to cancer. Her husband broke the news to fans over Twitter and said that she died at home after battling cancer.

“She died as she lived. Fearlessly,” her husband Damian 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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Following this, McCrory’s fans took to the social media platform to pay their tributes to the actor. 

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Helen played the role of Aunt Polly in the Netflix series Peaky Blinders and the role of Draco Malfoy’s mother Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies.