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His Dark Materials pays tribute to Helen McCrory

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The third and final season of His Dark Materials arrived on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this past weekend – and it kicked off with a very fitting tribute to one of its late actors.

Helen McCrory, who was perhaps best known for her role as Aunt Polly in Peaky Blinders and Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, voiced the character of Lord Asriel’s daemon Stelmaria in the hit BBC fantasy series. The actor passed away in 2021 at the age of 52 after a battle with cancer.

At the end of season 3‘s premiere episode, which aired on Sunday 18th December, the end credits rolled, reading: “In memory of Helen McCrory, OBE

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Cillian Murphy Remembers Helen McCrory on BBC Interview

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Murphy: “We’ve been through a lot together.”

By Helenistic | helen-mccrory.com | February 26, 2022

Cillian Murphy talks about Peaky Blinders and his close pal Helen McCrory in the following interview with the BBC.

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Peaky Blinders Creator: Continuing without Helen McCrory was a challenge

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               Steven Knight reflects on the death of the “incredible actor”

Naomi Clark | PA Entertainment | January 17, 2022

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight said continuing the story after the death of actress Helen McCrory was a “challenge” – but believes she would have wanted them to keep going with the crime drama.

McCrory, who played Shelby family matriarch Polly Gray in the hit BBC One show, died from cancer aged 52 last April.

Knight reflected on the show’s future following the death of the “incredible actor”, as well as his upcoming projects – including the upcoming stage adaptation, Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby.

He told the PA news agency: “It was a terrible, tragic loss that happened while we were shooting.

“And the loss of such an incredible human being is the main thing. The loss of such an incredible actor is awful.

“She was right at the heart (of the series). There are three central characters – she was one of them.

“And it’s a challenge, and was a challenge, to keep going with the story without her. But we knew that she would have wanted that to continue. So that’s what we did.”

The actress, the wife of Homeland star Damian Lewis, had starred in every series of the show since it began in 2013.

 

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New Peaky Blinders Book Makes a Tribute to Helen McCrory

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Helen McCrory Remembered as Polly Gray

by Helenistic | October 14, 2021 | helen-mccrory.com

Peaky Blinders official Twitter account has recently shared the cover of the new The Peaky Blinders Compendium: The Official A-Z Guide to the World of Peaky Blinders. 

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Helen McCrory, versatile actress who dominated the stage and shone on screen in Peaky Blinders and The Queen – obituary

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The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer put her in his ‘pantheon of actors whose name in the programme always creates the anticipation of pleasure’

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Helen McCrory, who has died of cancer aged 52, made her name as a subtle and intelligent stage performer, and later bucked the trend that consigns actresses to oblivion in middle age, becoming one of Britain’s most sought-after television stars in her 40s.

In the first decade of the new millennium she was hailed as one of the most promising presences in British theatre. Writing in the Telegraph in 2002, Jasper Rees placed her in the tradition of Judi Dench, Zoë Wanamaker and Imelda Staunton as “the small, punchy actress with a voice that can coat a back wall in honey from 100 paces.”

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