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Helen McCrory

Helen McCrory, OBE, is an illustrious British actress. Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama, Helen’s roles are many and varied. Since 2013 she has played Aunt Polly, matriarch to the Shelby crime family, in Peaky Blinders, the enormously popular historical drama based on Birmingham’s gangs in the 1920s. Helen also portrayed the cool and elegant Narcissa Malfoy in the final three films of the Harry Potter franchise. Helen can also be heard as the voice of Stelmaria, daemon to Lord Asriel, in HBO’s adaptation of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. On stage, Helen has played some of literature’s most famous women, including Medea and Lady Macbeth.