Helen McCrory - Polly Gray from Peaky Blinders Cast - Mother Superior

Описание: Elizabeth "Polly" Gray (née Shelby) is the matriarch of the Shelby Family, aunt of the Shelby siblings, the treasurer of the Birmingham criminal gang, the Peaky Blinders, a certified accountant and company treasurer of Shelby Company Limited.

She managed the Peaky Blinders when the Shelby boys were absent during the Great War. She is the unofficial head of the Shelby Family and often advises Thomas Shelby on the gang's business.
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Helen McCrory - Polly Gray from Peaky Blinders Cast - Mother Superior

Helen Elizabeth McCrory is a British actress.
She was born on 17 August 1968.
McCrory was born in Paddington in England, UK.
Her mother, Ann is Welsh and her father Iain McCrory is a diplomat from Glasgow.
She is the eldest of three children.
She was educated at Queenswood School near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and then spent a year living in Italy. Upon her return to Britain, she began studying acting at the Drama Centre in London.
Marriage
On 4 July 2007, McCrory married actor Damian Lewis.
They have a daughter, Manon, and a son, Gulliver.
She is an honorary patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.
McCrory won Third Prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her 1993 performance as Rose Trelawny in Trelawny of the 'Wells' at the National Theatre.
In 2002 she was nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for playing Elena in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
She appeared in Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003), as Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, and in supporting roles in such films as Interview with the Vampire (1994), Charlotte Gray (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), and Casanova (2005). In The Queen (2006) she played Cherie Blair, a role she reprised in Peter Morgan's follow-up The Special Relationship (2010).
She appeared in a modernized TV adaptation of Frankenstein.
Her first pregnancy forced her to pull out of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), in which she had been cast as Bellatrix Lestrange (she was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter).
McCrory was later cast as Bellatrix's sister Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released in July 2009. McCrory reprised her role in the final films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2; McCrory's performance was well received by fans of the books.
She also played the principal villain role of Rosanna Calvierri in the episode "The Vampires of Venice" of the BBC television series Doctor Who.
In 2013, McCrory narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an interactive anthology of love literature developed by Allie Byrne Esiri.
Again, in 2013 McCrory played 'Lady Macbeth' at the Little Angel Theatre. The same year, she started playing Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders.
She has received Shakespeare Globe Awards for her performance in Macbeth and Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming for her acting skills in Peaky Blinders.
She also has won the London Film Critics' Circle award for her acting in The Queen as Supporting actress of the year.

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