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Helen McCrory is star guest at spellbinding concert

On May 16, 2019June 16, 2022 By helenistic No Comments

VIP Guest for Mental Health Awareness

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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Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis Attend Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards

On May 12, 2019April 27, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

BAFTA TV Awards

by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mcccrory.com | May 12, 2019

Damian and Helen attended the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 12, 2019. Helen was a presenter at the evening’s event, honoring the best British and International viewing offered to UK television audiences.

The British Academy Television Awards, hosted by Hosted by Graham Norton, will be broadcast on the night of the ceremony on BBC1 from 8pm. The Bafta Television Awards will also be available to stream on BBC iPlayer. For a complete list of nominees and presenters, please visit BAFTA TV here.

Clara Amfo and Jordan North hosted the official red-carpet live programme. You can watch the red carpet arrivals here, but if you fast forward to 1:13:45 you might see someone familiar in your right-hand corner and a minute later, he moves to the middle of screen:

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MotherFatherSon Interview

On February 23, 2019April 12, 2021 By Gingersnap4Helen No Comments

What’s the Story Helen McCrory?

by Cole Moreton | Event Magazine | February 23, 2019

She stars opposite a legendary Hollywood heart-throb in the ambitious new BBC drama MotherFatherSon, but Helen McCrory was never going to swoon over Richard Gere. ‘I was a naughty girl,’ says the actress with a chuckle, explaining why she didn’t fall for Gere’s clean-cut charms like so many her age – 14 – when his first hit, An Officer And A Gentleman, came out in 1982.

‘I was a Jimi Hendrix girl. I liked my rock ’n’ roll. I liked the naughty boys – Bob Dylan was going to wake me up in a harem in Morocco. So it wasn’t that I didn’t have a crush on him, I didn’t see the films.’ ‘I knew who he was, of course,’ she says. ‘But I had a crush on Adam And The Ants back then. It was all London, it was all street, it was all edgy, it was all the smell of carbon monoxide and marches and DMs.’

Gere plays a very powerful man with deep secrets. Could she challenge Gere? She nods. ‘It was constantly a work in progress. I come from the British tradition, which is all about the script. The word is God. He comes from an American tradition, where you improvise around it. I’ve never worked with anyone like that.’

She does know – and is proud to say – that she was given her part long before her more famous co-star. ‘I was cast six weeks before Gere was! MotherFatherSon: it’s in that order for a reason, as in every family!’

McCrory and Lewis have a son and a daughter, Gulliver and Manon, who are 11 and 12. They live in a Victorian townhouse in north London, having tried Los Angeles for a while before returning home.

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Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis Attend London Fashion Week

On February 18, 2019April 27, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

A Family of Fashion

by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mccrory.com | February 18, 2019

It’s a family affair as Damian, Helen and daughter Manon attend the Erdem show for London Fashion Week on Monday, February 18, 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery in London England. The family is pictured here with British-American journalist and editor who has been editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988 and artistic director for Condé Nast, Vogue’s publisher, since 2013, Anna Wintour.

Damian and Helen also sat front row at the Roksanda fashion show at the Old Selfridges Hotel that same day. They enjoyed a first look at the new Autumn/Winter 2019 collection.

In addition, the couple attended the Christopher Kane catwalk show at 90 High Holborn during this year’s London Fashion Week.

To view photos of all three events, please visit our Gallery here, here, and here.

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Photographing The Famous

On October 14, 2018April 27, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

One Button Press, One Camera Shutter Click, and You Get This:

by Jemma Dodd | Olympus Magazine | Issue 59

Photo by Debbi Clark

Debbi Clark has had work featured in Vogue, Homme, and Tatler, photographed the likes of Kate Moss and Damian Lewis and set up her own charity. We speak to the woman who’s capable of it all…

When did you become interested in photography?
It was when I was studying fashion and design at St. Martin’s College when I fell in love with photography. I used to photograph landscapes, capturing patterns in trees, flowers, grass picturing shapes, shadows and formations in clouds. I became so obsessed with how fascinating it was playing with light that I wanted to learn the technical side to really bring my images to life. I then went on to LCP and studied photography and printing. My first camera was the Olympus PEN-F 35mm film camera, which I still love and use.

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