Helen McCrory
Actress, Mum and Philanthropist

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Leaving’s Helen McCrory talks toyboy trouble!

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Age-gap Drama

by Patrick McLennan | August 29, 2012 | What’s on TV

Helen McCrory – best known for playing Cherie Blair in The Queen – stars in ITV1’s new age-gap drama Leaving. Here, she talks about forbidden love and being a working mum…

Tell us about Julie, the character you play in Leaving…

“Julie is a 40-something wife and mother who has turned her back on the humdrum reality of her own life by throwing herself into the vicarious fantasy and joy of other people’s marriages.”

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Review: The Last of the Haussmans

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Hippy Dippy

By Michael Billington | June 20, 2012 | The Guardian

Plays about the legacy of the 1960s are becoming increasingly common. After Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love and Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia, we now have this debut from Stephen Beresford. As an actor himself, he knows how to write whacking good parts and has all the benefits of a meticulous National production, but he rarely makes you feel the family he portrays can provide a metaphor for a generation.

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