Helen McCrory Net Worth
Helen McCrory Net Worth is
$3 Million
Helen McCrory Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Helen Elizabeth McCrory (born 17 August 1968) is a British actress. She portrayed Cherie Blair in both the 2006 film The Queen and the 2010 film The Special Relationship. She also portrayed Narcissa Malfoy in the final three Harry Potter films. In 2011, she starred in Martin Scorsese's family mystery film Hugo as Mama Jeanne and as Clair Dowar in the James Bond film, Skyfall. | Full Name | Heath L'Estrange |
| Date Of Birth | August 17, 1968 |
| Place Of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Height | 5' 4" (1.63 m) |
| Profession | Actress |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse | Damian Lewis |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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! |
| 2 | 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! |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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.' |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything. |
| 14 | I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behavior. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments. |
| 20 | To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends. |
| 21 | My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. |
| 22 | I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it. |
| 23 | So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people. |
| 24 | It's what people create that makes my heart stop. |
| 25 | I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think. |
| 26 | I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. |
| 27 | I used to say that theater was my favorite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it. |
| 28 | 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.' |
| 29 | I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here. |
| 30 | A script is only as good as the director who's making it. |
| 31 | Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be. |
| 32 | I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. |
| 33 | 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. |
| 34 | As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it. |
| 35 | In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That's lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park. |
| 36 | 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. |
| 37 | 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'. |
| 38 | 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. |
| 39 | I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of. |
| 40 | People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. |
| 41 | What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself. |
| 42 | 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. |
| 43 | 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. |
| 44 | What really matters to me is what my peers think. |
| 45 | People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals. |
| 46 | 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. |
| 47 | If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be? |
| 48 | I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it. |
| 49 | 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. |
| 50 | 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! |
| 51 | Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie. 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! |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Her father was from Glasgow, Scotland and her mother was from Wales. |
| 2 | She and her husband Damian Lewis have portrayed real-life couple, Cherie Blair and Tony Blair on television movies. Lewis in Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007) and McCrory in The Special Relationship (2010). |
| 3 | She originally couldn't take the role of Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) due to pregnancy and was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter. She has now been cast to play Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix's sister, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). |
| 4 | Sister-in-law of Gareth Lewis. |
| 5 | Has two children with husband Damian Lewis, daughter Manon born on September 8, 2006 and son Gulliver, born November 2, 2007. |
| 6 | Engaged to actor Damian Lewis in February of 2006. |
| 7 | She was nominated for a 2002 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Uncle Vanya performed at the Donmar Warehouse. |
| 8 | She grew up in Norway, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Madagascar and Paris, among other places. |
| 9 | Daughter of a diplomat and a physiotherapist. |
| 10 | In her childhood she lived in Africa and Paris, and went to an English boarding school. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loving Vincent | 2017 | post-production | Louise Chevalier |
| Fearless | 2017 | TV Series | Emma |
| Their Finest | 2016 | Sophie Smith | |
| Peaky Blinders | 2013-2016 | TV Series | Aunt Polly / Polly Gray |
| Bill | 2015/I | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| Horizon | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Penny Dreadful | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Madame Kali |
| To Appomattox | 2015 | TV Mini-Series | Julia Grant |
| The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | 2014 | Jean Hogg | |
| A Little Chaos | 2014 | Madame Le Notre | |
| National Theatre Live: Medea | 2014 | Medea | |
| Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This | 2014 | TV Movie | Mary Kay |
| Inside No. 9 | 2014 | TV Series | Tabitha |
| The Cabal Club (Soho) | 2012 | Short | Stella |
| Skyfall | 2012 | Clair Dowar MP | |
| Leaving | 2012 | TV Series | Julie |
| Flying Blind | 2012 | Frankie | |
| We'll Take Manhattan | 2012 | TV Movie | Lady Clare Rendlesham |
| Hugo | 2011 | Mama Jeanne | |
| Phineas and Ferb | 2011 | TV Series | Lucy Fletcher |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | Narcissa Malfoy | |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | Narcissa Malfoy | |
| 4.3.2.1. | 2010 | Mrs. Jones | |
| The Special Relationship | 2010 | TV Movie | Cherie Blair |
| Doctor Who | 2010 | TV Series | Rosanna |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Mrs. Bean (voice) | |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | Narcissa Malfoy | |
| Life | 2009 | TV Series | Amanda Puryer |
| Flashbacks of a Fool | 2008 | Peggy Tickell | |
| Frankenstein | 2007 | TV Movie | Dr. Victoria Frankenstein |
| Becoming Jane | 2007 | Mrs. Radcliffe | |
| The Queen | 2006 | Cherie Blair | |
| Normal for Norfolk | 2006 | Short | Clare |
| Casanova | 2005 | Casanova's Mother | |
| Messiah: The Harrowing | 2005 | TV Mini-Series | Dr. Rachel Price |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | 2004 | TV Movie | Mrs. Vandeleur |
| Does God Play Football | 2004 | Short | Sarah Ward |
| Enduring Love | 2004 | Mrs. Logan | |
| The Last King | 2003 | TV Mini-Series | Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine |
| Carla | 2003 | TV Movie | Carla |
| Lucky Jim | 2003 | TV Movie | Margaret Peel |
| Dead Gorgeous | 2002 | TV Movie | Antonia Ashton |
| Deep Down | 2002 | Short | Dana |
| Dickens | 2002 | TV Series | Kate Dickens |
| The Jury | 2002 | TV Mini-Series | Rose Davies |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | 2002 | Valentina Villefort | |
| Charlotte Gray | 2001 | Francoise | |
| In a Land of Plenty | 2001 | TV Series | Mary Freeman |
| North Square | 2000 | TV Series | Rose Fitzgerald |
| Hotel Splendide | 2000 | Lorna Bull | |
| Anna Karenina | 2000 | TV Mini-Series | Anna Karenina |
| Split Second | 1999 | TV Movie | Angie Anderson |
| Dad Savage | 1998 | Chris | |
| Spoonface Steinberg | 1998 | TV Movie | Mother |
| Trial & Retribution | 1997 | TV Series | Anita Harris |
| The James Gang | 1997 | Bernadette James | |
| The Fragile Heart | 1996 | TV Series | Nicola Pascoe |
| Forest People | 1996 | TV Movie | Gloria |
| Witness Against Hitler | 1996 | TV Movie | Freya von Moltke |
| Screen Two | 1995 | TV Series | Jo |
| Dirty Old Town | 1995 | TV Movie | Claire |
| Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | 1994 | 2nd Whore | |
| Uncovered | 1994 | Lola | |
| Performance | 1993 | TV Series | Jean Rice |
| Full Stretch | 1993 | TV Series | Vicki Goodall |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAFTA Televsion Awards 2016 | 2016 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| EE British Academy Film Awards: The Red Carpet Show | 2014 | TV Special | Herself |
| The EE British Academy Film Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Cinematography |
| Muse of Fire | 2013 | Documentary | Herself |
| Horizon | 2008-2013 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Narrator / Herself - Presenter |
| Arqiva British Academy Television Awards | 2013 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| 56th BFI London Film Festival | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Narrator (voice) |
| Breakfast | 2004-2010 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Sex Inspectors | 2004 | TV Series | Narrator (Series 2-) (2005-) (voice) |
| The Making of 'Charles II' | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Pat Condell: Stand and Deliver | 1998 | TV Special documentary | Christina |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Making of a Little Chaos | 2015 | Video short | Madame Le Notre (uncredited) |
| Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion | 2014 | TV Movie | Rosanna |
| Sex: A Horizon Guide | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Narrator |
| The Making of 'The Queen' | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Cherie Blair (uncredited) |
| Becoming Jane: Behind the Scenes | 2007 | Video documentary short | Mrs. Radcliffe (uncredited) |
| The Architect | 2006 | Anna Karenina |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Golden FIPA | Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming | TV Series and Serials: Actress | Peaky Blinders (2013) |
| 2001 | Broadcasting Press Guild Award | Broadcasting Press Guild Awards | Best Actress | North Square (2000) |
| 1997 | BAFTA Cymru Award | BAFTA Awards, Wales | Best Actress (Yr Actores Orau) | Streetlife (1995) |
| 1995 | Silver Nymph | Monte-Carlo TV Festival | Streetlife (1995) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Critics' Choice TV Award | Critics Choice Television Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Penny Dreadful (2014) |
| 2015 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | Penny Dreadful (2014) |
| 2014 | Dagger | Crime Thriller Awards, UK | Best Supporting Actress | Peaky Blinders (2013) |
| 2012 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Ensemble Cast | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) |
| 2007 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | British Supporting Actress of the Year | The Queen (2006) |
| 2005 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003) |
Known for movies
Skyfall (2012)
as Clair Dowar MP
Hugo (2011)
as Mama Jeanne
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
as Narcissa Malfoy
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
as Narcissa Malfoy