Biography
Helen McCrory (August 17, 1968 - April 16, 2021) was an English 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 installments of the Harry Potter movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen McCrory, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Charlotte
2022
as Paula Lindberg-Salomon (voice)
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative...

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
as Self
Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.

The King Who Fooled Hitler
2019
as Narrator (voice)
In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German att...

Loving Vincent
2017
as Louise Chevalier
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final...

Their Finest
2017
as Sophie Smith
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. ...

National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea
2016
as Hester Collyer
A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of...

Bill
2015
as Queen Elizabeth I
What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.

A Little Chaos
2015
as Madame Le Notre
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, ...

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
2014
as Jean Hogg
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

National Theatre Live: Medea
2014
as Medea
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for...

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
as Mary Kay
The life and times of Tommy Cooper

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Flying Blind
2013
as Frankie
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Sh...

Skyfall
2012
as Clair Dowar MP
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
as Libby
Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilap...

Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?
2012
as Narrator
In the middle of the 17th century, Britain was devastated by a civil war that divided the nation into two tribes - the Roundheads and the Cavaliers. I...

We'll Take Manhattan
2012
as Lady Clare Rendlesham
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild a...

Hugo
2011
as Mama Jeanne
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes of the final days of the final two Harry Potter ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Narcissa Malfoy
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Narcissa Malfoy
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

4.3.2.1
2010
as Mrs. Jones
Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some ...

The Special Relationship
2010
as Cherie Blair
A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister sta...

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Mrs. Bean (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with t...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Narcissa Malfoy
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi...

Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
as Peggy Tickell
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his child...

Frankenstein
2007
as Victoria
Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary...

Becoming Jane
2007
as Mrs. Radcliffe
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

The Queen
2006
as Cherie Blair
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, fol...

Casanova
2005
as Casanova's Mother
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems imp...

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Mrs. Vandeleur
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr....

Does God Play Football?
2004
as Sarah Ward
An endearing tale of faith and fate, with the odd miracle thrown in, set in the 1960's, Tommy is a 7-year-old boy without a dad who fills in the emoti...

Enduring Love
2004
as Mrs. Logan
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a...

Carla
2003
as Carla
The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
Lucky Jim
2003
as Margaret Peel
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British u...
Dead Gorgeous
2002
as Antonia
Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder ...

The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
as Valentina Villefort
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable ...

Charlotte Gray
2001
as Francoise
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working...

Hotel Splendide
2000
as Lorna Bull
A chef seeks reconciliation with her brother by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.

Split Second
1999
as Angie Anderson
A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his m...

Dad Savage
1998
as Chris
A wealthy, successful, East-Anglian tulip grower, Dad Savage is also something of a godfather in the local criminal fraternity but doesn't trust banks...

Spoonface Steinberg
1998
as Mother
Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As sh...

Stand and Deliver
1998
as Christina
Alun arrives in Glasgow to play a gig at The Edge, a comedy club run by would-be promoter Max T. Max T should be looking after Alun, but he already ha...

The James Gang
1997
as Bernadette James
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Freya von Moltke
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, p...

Streetlife
1995
as Jo
The rough urban life in a Welsh valley that focuses on Jo, a single mother who has just become pregnant by her married boyfriend Kevin.

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
as Claire
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

Interview with the Vampire
1994
as 2nd Whore
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Uncovered
1994
as Lola
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, pa...

The Entertainer
1993
as Jean Rice
Adaptation of John Osborne's play.
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
N/A
as Polly Gray / Herself
Documentary feature about the shooting of season 3 of the British TV show "Peaky Blinders".