Helen McCrory was born on 17th August 1968 in London, England, and is an actress probably best known for playing Cherie Blair in both films “The Queen” and “The Special Relationship”. She has also played Narcissa Malfoy in the last three films released under the franchise of “Harry Potter”. On television, she is one of the central characters in the series “Peaky Blinders”. McCrory has been active in the entertainment industry since 1990.
How rich is the actress? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Helen McCrory net worth is as much as $75 million, as of the data presented in early 2018. Film and television are the main sources of McCrory’s fortune.
Helen McCrory Net Worth $75 million
To begin with, the girl was raised by her parents Ian and Anne McCrory, the oldest of three children, and grew up in numerous countries, including Norway, Nigeria, France and Madagascar as her father was in the diplomatic service. McCrory ultimately studied at the Drama Centre, which is a part of the University of the Arts in London.
Concerning her professional career, McCrory was nominated for the London Evening Standard Theatre Award as the Best Actress for her role of Elena in “Uncle Vanya” (2002), and was later nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in the West End Theatre in 2006, for her role of Rosalinde in the play “As You Like It”. In 2008, she played a fascinating Rebecca West in a production of Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” at the Almeida Theatre in London.
Her television work includes the role of Margaret Peel in the film “Lucky Jim” (2003), Lady Castlemaine in “Charles II: The Power and The Passion” (2003), and leading roles in the ITV miniseries “Anna Karenina” (2000) and “Carla” (2003). McCrory also appeared in supporting roles in films including “Interview with a Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” (1994), “Dad Savage” (1998), “The Count of Monte Cristo” (2002) and “Casanova” (2005). In “The Queen” (2006) she played Cherie Blaire, a role she once again took on in the sequel “The Special Relationship” (2010) by Peter Morgan. She was cast as main in the television film “We’ll Take Manhattan” (2012) by John McKay, and since 2013, she is a main character in the action drama series “Peaky Blinders” created by Steven Knight. Meantime she starred opposite David Threlfall in the film “Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This” (2014).
Regarding her other roles landed on the big screen, she starred in “Flashbacks of a Fool” (2008), however, her first pregnancy made her retreat from filming “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in 2007, in which she would play the role of Bellatrix of Detta (she was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter). Nevertheless, she later played Bellatrix’s sister, Narcissa Malfoy, in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, and also took on the role in the two film adaptations (part I and part II) of the last book. She was cast as a main in the award winning film “Hugo” (2011), and in 2012, she had a role in the spy film “Skyfall”, the 23rd in the Bond series, which also won a number of awards, received critical acclaim and grossed over $1.1 billion at the box office. The actress then starred alongside Phoebe Fox and Jeremy Irvine in the supernatural horror film “The Woman in Black: Angel of Death” (2014) by Tom Harper. McCrory joined the cast of the comedy war drama “Their Finest” in 2016. Recently, she landed a role in the biographical drama film about the life of Vincent van Gogh “Loving Vincent”.
Finally, in the personal life of Helen, she married the actor Damian Lewis in 2007. They have two children and are currently living in Los Angeles.
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