Helen McCrory, the English stage and screen star who appeared in three ‘Harry Potter’ films, alongside ‘The Queen’, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Skyfall’ has died. She was 52. Her husband, the actor Damian Lewis broke the news on Friday.

McCrory was originally slated to play Bellatrix LeStrange in the fifth installment of the ‘Harry Potter’ series ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, but was forced to pull out due to her first pregnancy. McCrory would go on to play as Narcissa Malfoy in the last three films of the franchise.

In 2013, McCrory was cast in one of her most famous roles, Shelby family matriarch Polly Gray in ‘Peaky Blinders’, appearing in all five seasons of Steven Knight’s hit crime drama that have aired so far.

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