Helen McCrory

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Helen McCrory (born on 17 August 1968) is an English actress known primarily for her stage and television work.

She studied acting at the Drama Centre, part of the University of the Arts London.

In 2002 she was nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress (playing Elena in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse). She was nominated for a 2006 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her most recent stage work, starring as Rosalind in As You Like It in London's West End.

Her television work includes Lucky Jim (2003), Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003) as Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, as well as the title roles in an ITV miniseries Anna Karenina, (2000) and Carla (2003).

She has appeared in supporting roles in such films as Interview with a Vampire (1994), Dad Savage (1998), Charlotte Gray (2001), and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Casanova (2005), and The Queen (2006).

She will next work on Bayley Walsh's Flashbacks of a Fool with Daniel Craig, and a stage production of Rosmersholm.

[edit] Personal life

Her father was a diplomat. McCrory was born in London but raised in a number of international locations. She was educated Queenswood, a boarding school in Hertfordshire, and spent a year living in Italy before attending drama school.

She enjoyed a lengthy relationship with actor Rufus Sewell who she started dating when they were both appearing in Pride and Prejudice in Manchester. She is engaged to the actor Damian Lewis; they have a daughter Manon (born 2006). [1] This pregnancy forced her to pull out of working on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in which she had been cast as Bellatrix Lestrange.