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VIDEO: How Helen McCrory Gets Glam

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Helen Shares Her BAFTA Red Carpet Confidence Secrets

by Jo Glanville Blackbird | Woman & Home | February 6, 2015

With awards season underway, and more than 50 dresses lined up by her stylist, Helen McCrory, who has starred in Skyfall and Harry Potter, needs inspiration for her red carpet look.

Helen regularly turns to her own personal favourite hairdresser, Charles Worthington, the annual official stylist to the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) taking place on Sunday for help getting ready.

‘I have horrible hair’, laughs Helen. ‘The word ‘shocking’ comes to mind! It’s frizzy and fine, and is rarely in good condition because, as an actress, it’s constantly being bleached and dyed, straightened, curled and cut to suit a role’.

‘So, using proper hair products is important to me because I’m not one of those women who gets up in the morning and looks fantastic!’, Helen explains as we join her on set.

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Mark Strong and Helen McCrory scoop Critics’ Circle Theatre awards

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Vogue Interview with Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis

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No Place Like Homeland

by Staff | Vogue | January 20, 2015

“Do you know, I think you might wear a suit better than any man I’ve ever met.” In the intimate and strangely forbidden confines of a lift at the National Theatre, Helen McCrory’s heavily made-up hazel eyes are drinking in her husband’s tall, tailored frame.

“Thank you,” he replies, faintly awkwardly, looking down at the same Tom Ford tuxedo he wore to accept the best actor Emmy award only last month. “Does this mean you want me to do all the washing-up for a week?”

A gypsy laugh bubbles up from deep inside McCrory’s tiny dancer’s body.

“No, my darling, of course not! Just the bedtime stories…”

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