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Helen McCrory: Aunt Polly Returns

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BBC Period Drama Peaky Blinders is Back

by Scarlett Kilcooley-O’Halloran | September 30, 2014 | British Vogue

ACTRESS Helen McCrory is well-versed in the virtues of the wardrobe department. With an award-winning career that has spanned over 20 years, she has played Shakespearian queens, ancient Greek protagonists, and a Harry Potter witch to name but a few mesmerising roles, but it is her latest role that is capturing her sartorial imagination right now.

Returning as the strong-willed Aunt Polly in the BBC period drama Peaky Blinders (the story of a family of gangsters running the Birmingham underground scene) for a second series, McCrory has – not for the first time – found her outfits central to how she has been able to develop her character.

The great advantage of wearing Dior or Marchesa is that it’s all been taken care of by people that know more about clothes than you do

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Helen McCrory: ‘There is this assumption that a woman my age can’t be sexy’

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On stripping for action at 46 and giving husband Damian Lewis a run for his money

 

By  Kirsty Lang | September 20, 2014 | Daily Mail

Helen McCrory

‘I have only just started doing sex scenes. When I was younger, I would always say no to taking my clothes off. Now I’m 46, I know what the camera is doing,’ said Helen McCrory

‘I love the fact that I get to wear loads of kohl eyeliner, a big hat and shoot a gun,’ says Helen McCrory, talking about her role in the BBC2 series Peaky Blinders.

She plays the matriarchal Aunt Polly in a Twenties Birmingham gangster family and wields a long hatpin with lethal consequences.

It seems only fair after all the fun her actor husband Damian Lewis had playing a war hero-turned-terrorist in Homeland.

Tough, confident and uncompromising in her choice of work, McCrory, like Aunt Polly, is a force to be reckoned with.

She has won numerous awards during an impressive stage and screen career (her credits include Harry Potter, The Queen and several high-profile TV dramas, including Charles II and North Square) and easily holds her own as one half of that formidable partnership with Lewis.

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