Helen McCrory

Infobox actor


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birthname = Helen McCrory
birthdate = birth date and age|1968|08|17|df=yes
birthplace = London, England
yearsactive = 1993 - present
occupation = Actress, Model
spouse = Damian Lewis (2007 - present) 2 children
awards = BAFTA Award for Best Actress
1997 "Streetlife"Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress
2001 "North Square"

Helen McCrory (born 17 August 1968) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress. She is best known for portrayals of Cherie Blair in the 2007 adaption "The Queen" and her award winning role as Rose Fitzgerald in the TV series, "North Square". McCrory has recently signed on to play Narcissa Malfoy in the final three adaptations of the final two Harry Potter books.

Biography

Early life

McCrory was born in London, England to Ian McCrory, a diplomat, and to Anne McCrory. She was the eldest of three children, consisting of a younger sister, Catherine, and a younger brother, John. Despite being born in London, McCrory was raised in a number of internation locations, such as; Norway, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Paris and Madagascar. She was educated at Queenswood, a boarding school in Hertfordshire, before spending a year living in Italy. Once she returned, McCrory then began studying acting at the Drama Centre, part of the University of the Arts, London.

Career

In 2002, McCrory was nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress (for playing Elena in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at the Donmar Warehouse). She was later nominated for a 2006 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her role as Rosalind in "As You Like It", in London's West End. In April, 2008, she made a "compelling" Rebecca in a production of Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" at the Almeida Theatre, London. [cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/27/btros127.xml|title=Rosmersholm: passions lost in the gloom |accessdate=|date=2008-05-27|publisher=The Daily Telegraph]

Her television work includes "Lucky Jim" (2003); "" (2003), as Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine; and the title roles in the ITV miniseries "Anna Karenina" (2000) and "Carla" (2003). McCrory has appeared in supporting roles in films, including "Interview with the Vampire" (1994); "Dad Savage" (1998); "Charlotte Gray" (2001); "The Count of Monte Cristo" (2002); "Casanova" (2005); and "The Queen" (2006), in which she portrayed Cherie Blair.

She was in Bayley Walsh's "Flashbacks of a Fool", with Daniel Craig, and a modernised TV adaptation of "Frankenstein's Monster". McCrory's first pregnancy forced her to pull out of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007), in which she had been cast as Bellatrix Lestrange. (She was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter). However, she has been cast as Bellatrix's sister Narcissa Malfoy in the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film, set to be released in July 2009. [Citation |last=Adler |first=Shawn |title='Harry Potter' Cast Grows: Helen McCrory Joins 'Half-Blood Prince' |url=http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1574000/story.jhtml |publisher="MTV" |date=2007-11-12 |accessdate=2008-04-02] cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7080000/newsid_7087000/7087093.stm|title=EXCLUSIVE: Narcissa cast in Potter 6|accessdate=2007-11-09|date=2007-11-09|publisher=Newsround] McCrory also says that she plans to reprise her role in the final movies, "The Deathly Hallows" parts one and two.Fact|date=June 2008

Personal life

McCrory enjoyed a lengthy relationship with actor Rufus Sewell, whom she began dating when they were both appearing in "Pride and Prejudice" in Manchester. On 4 July 2007, she married actor Damian Lewis; together they have a daughter, Manon (born 8 September 2006), and a son, Gulliver (born 2 November 2007) [ [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16889806&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--baby-for-helen--name_page.html "The Mirror" article] ] . They live in Tufnell Park and Los Angeles.

Filmography

References

External links

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