by Huw Fullerton | July 19, 2019 | Radio Times
Hopefully, we’ll have announcements soon concerning these other voice-only roles – but for now, it’s good to see a stellar cast get even more Stelmariar.
His Dark Materials comes to BBC1 in winter 2019
NHS Foundation Trust Camden and Islington | May 16, 2019
Actor Helen McCrory, OBE, was the VIP speaker at a concert of NHS choirs from across London who came together for the very first time to mark Mental Health Awareness Week.
Camden and Islington NHS Trust’s own choir, which was set up three years ago and includes staff and service users, was the star turn at the event at UNISON’s HQ in Euston on Thursday 16 May.
The other choirs included youngsters from Camden Youth Choirs, The Whittington’s Sing for Your Lungs Choir, and the chart-topping Lewisham and Greenwich NHS singers.
Helen, whose many film, theatre and television roles include Narcissa Malfoy in the final two Harry Potter Films and Aunt Polly in Peaky Blinders was recently awarded an OBE for her services to drama. She is Patron of the Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation which is dedicated to helping give children a gateway to the arts, providing them with the inspiration and the tools to develop lifelong artistic passions.
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by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mccrory.com | April 9, 2019
We caught up with actress Helen McCrory, who gave us her experience discovering how Van Gogh was inspired by British art, literature and culture at the Van Gogh and Britain exhibition at Tate Britain.
There are only a few actresses who have been able to portray a mother who commits heinous crimes while maintaining her image as the savior matriarch. Going by this record then, British actress Helen McCrory has time and again excelled in roles that proved a mother is not only committed towards the well-being of her children but can be selfish enough to disregard the affairs of the world solely for the benefit of motherhood. Her characters might not be diverse but the confined roles that she plays have been executed until the last morsel has been squeezed out of those characters.
At the moment, McCrory is best known for her role as the Shelby matriarch, Polly Grey, a gypsy woman who is able to talk to spirits but at the same time commits a murder in the cleanest possible way. Polly Grey is one of the leading women on BBC One’s ‘Peaky Blinders’ but unlike her fellow characters, Polly holds the upper hand when it comes to the Shelby family business. As the company’s treasurer, Polly decides where the money goes and what happens with it, and let’s keep in mind this is a woman who lives in the early 1910s, a time when due to World War I men were out in the battlefield and women for the first time were taking control over business.
by Sarah Hughes | March 27, 2019 | The Guardian
When Helen McCrory launched into a monologue about a dead seal I nearly lost hope, but the family saga has won me over with its pure, jaw-dropping emotion
Warning: this piece contains spoilers for MotherFatherSon
Before MotherFatherSon began I thought I had some idea what to expect. It was written by Tom Rob Smith, creator of London Spy and The Assassination of Gianni Versace. It starred Richard Gere as a millionaire media mogul, Helen McCrory as his estranged wife and Billy Howle as their troubled, cocaine-addled son.
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