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Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52
British actor Helen McCrory, who starred in the television show Peaky Blinders and the Harry Potter movies, has died aged 52.
Key points:
- McCrory played a succession of formidable and sometimes fearsome women
- She starred in The Crown, Harry Potter, Peaky Blinders and Hugo
- Peers praised her as “one of the greatest actors of our time”
Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, said McCrory died “peacefully at home” after a “heroic battle with cancer.”
“She died as she lived. Fearlessly,” Lewis wrote on Twitter.
“God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.”
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