RIP Helen McCrory

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I wouldn't have known her by name, but I enjoyed her acting in Peaky Blinders and Penny Dreadful.

 

British actress Helen McCrory has died, husband Damian Lewis says | Reuters

 

 

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Just saw this. She was fantastic. 

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Her husband was Damian Lewis of Billions and Homeland.

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thought she was older than 52.  she was a good.

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RIP Aunt Pol

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25 minutes ago, msbesq said:

Her husband was Damian Lewis of Billions and Homeland.

she is great in Peaky Blinders

DL's best role not even mentioned. smh

Edited April 16, 2021 by Jacob McCandles

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25 minutes ago, msbesq said:

Her husband was Damian Lewis of Billions and Homeland.

No idea about those, but he was Maj Winters in Band of Brothers. 

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She was in the Harry Potter movies too - Narcissa Malfoy 

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She was also in Skyfall. Sad day. I really liked her. 

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The write up I saw said she was best known for her role in Harry Potter, but I don’t even remember her in that. She was much more impactful in PB and PD.

RIP

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She's been in a lot of Brit stuff.  She could look pretty good and also pretty old at different times.  I was stunned to discover some time ago that she was a) approximately Lewis' age and b) his spouse.

Also, you guys are leaving out Lewis' peak role:  Dreamcatcher.

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Great actress. That's really sad. And Damien Lewis is one of the best actors around.

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1 hour ago, Jacob McCandles said:

she is great in Peaky Blinders

DL's best role not even mentioned. smh

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He did a two season series I think on CBS called Life. Really well done and his costar was a former Cowboys cheerleader who is smokin.

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2 hours ago, NOMAAA said:

thought she was older than 52.  she was a good.

goddamn I thought she was easily 60+

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7 minutes ago, Orale said:

17 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

He did a two season series I think on CBS called Life. Really well done and his costar was a former Cowboys cheerleader who is smokin.

That show was tremendous.

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Not to get sidetracked with the Damian Lewis discussion, but Life was great.  

I can't think of a single performance of Helen McCrory's that I saw that I didn't think was great.  I watch way too much BBC stuff.  LOL

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6 minutes ago, deech said:

Not to get sidetracked with the Damian Lewis discussion, but Life was great.  

I can't think of a single performance of Helen McCrory's that I saw that I didn't think was great.  I watch way too much BBC stuff.  LOL

life was fantastic.  needed a few more seasons of sarah shahi in her prime.

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Not to get sidetracked with the Damian Lewis discussion, but Life was great.  
I can't think of a single performance of Helen McCrory's that I saw that I didn't think was great.  I watch way too much BBC stuff.  LOL

I had no idea she did porn.

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2 hours ago, Hate said:

No idea about those, but he was Maj Winters in Band of Brothers. 

Este 

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4 hours ago, msbesq said:

Her husband was Damian Lewis of Billions and Homeland.

No idea they were married. What a great acting couple household.

RIP, such a wonderful actress, loved, loved her in Peaky Blinders

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From the tidbits I have seen, Lewis is handling this with remarkable grace and his little writings on the matter show him to be a person of depth.  The same seems to be true of his wife.

As a person with little thespian interest or apparent talent, I don't really understand actors as people.  So many of them get seemingly swallowed up by fame and related BS that it makes them caricatures of themselves.  And I tend to think of acting as one of those occupations, like sports, where you either have talent or not and it may or may not be accompanied with any sort of intelligence or depth of character.

It does seem somewhat easier to envision British actors as "people" because in many cases, they seem to be better educated than many of their American peers.

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Rip...

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I thought her looks seemed to be significantly dropping off each season in Peaky Blinders.  I didn’t realize she fighting cancer and assume the treatments were the cause for this.  She was a great actress and be missed.