Helen McCrory

Helen Mccrory's biography

Helen Elizabeth McCrory is 53 years old actor born at Paddington, London, England, UK. She was born on Saturday 17th of August 1968. Helen is often nicknamed as Helen McCrory, Helen Elizabeth McCrory. According to year of birth 1968 Helen belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 17th of August means Helen is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

Helen is native english speaker. She is white british. Helen is citizen of United Kingdom. She is protestant. Helen´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know Helen also as stage actor. She is recently known as film actor.

Helen Mccrory's family

Helen Mccrory's ex husband

Damian Lewis

Helen Mccrory and Damian Lewis have been together since 2007 for 14 years. He is known as television actor. Her ex husband was born on Thursday 11th of February 1971 in St John's Wood.

Helen Mccrory's schools

We found 2 schools Helen attended. Complete list of schools: Drama Centre London, Queenswood School.

Detailed informations about her schools

• In her childhood, she resided in Africa and Paris, and attended an English boarding school.

Helen Mccrory's career

Helen´s main focus is to be actor. Helen is famous thanks to Narcissa Malfoy on the Harry Potter movies..

Is Helen Mccrory gay ?

She is known to be straight.

How did Helen Mccrory die

She died on on Friday 16th of April 2021 when he was 53 years old. Helen Mccrorys death was caused by cancer. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Helen Mccrory's Awards

• She was nominated for the 2002 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Uncle Vanya" at the Donmar Warehouse.
• She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2017 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Drama. She was an actress in London, England.
• She won the 2015 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as the title role in the tragedy "Medea" at the Royal National Theatre.

What else you don't know about Helen Mccrory ?

Helen´s middle name is Elizabeth.

What Helen Mccrory has done for a first time

• After the news of her passing, former U.K. first lady, Cherie Blair (whom she portrayed in two films) gave her condolence.

Helen Mccrory's quotes

• I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
• I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
• I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?
• If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy.
• People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
• What really matters to me is what my peers think.
• The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run.
• A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theater, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.
• What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.
• I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.
• America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
• I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
• Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.
• As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.
• I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
• I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.
• Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.
• A script is only as good as the director who's making it.
• I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
• I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
• I used to say that theater was my favorite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
• I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
• I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.
• It's what people create that makes my heart stop.
• So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
• I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.
• My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
• To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
• Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
• Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
• Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.
• I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
• I really love my food. My favorite thing is artichokes. I am not so much interested in desserts or chocolate, though. I also like to cook with my husband Damian.
• I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.
• I love theater because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
• I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theater. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
• If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of.
• The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.
• I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.
• Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.
• You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'
• When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realized then a fantasist had been born.
• What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theater looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.
• You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!
• There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
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Helen Mccrory's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Helen Mccrory looks. We will focus on her height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. She is tall as 5' 4" (163 cm). Helen weights 121lbs (55 kg). Body build is slim. Helen´s eyes are tinted brown - dark. Helen´s hair is shade of brown - dark.