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Helen McCrory

Helen McCrory



United Kingdom

Age: 52

Born: 17 Aug, 1968

Died: 16 Apr, 2021

Known for

In Peaky Blinders as Polly Grayas Polly Gray

in Peaky Blinders
In Penny Dreadful as Evelyn Pooleas Evelyn Poole

in Penny Dreadful
In Roadkill (2020) as Dawn Ellisonas Dawn Ellison

in Roadkill (2020)
In Quiz as Sonia Woodley QCas Sonia Woodley QC

in Quiz

TV Series Starring Helen McCrory

Roadkill (2020)Roadkill (2020)
BBC One, 2020 | Drama, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 4/5

Roadkill is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter Laurence. Peter's public and private life seems to be falling apart - or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. As the personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. However, events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?


QuizQuiz
ITV, 2020 | Drama, Crime, History, Game Show | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.8/5

Quiz tells the story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major, who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It tells how Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.


MotherFatherSonMotherFatherSon
BBC Two, 2019 | Drama, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.9/5

A gripping political, psychological thriller that delves into the intersection of police, politics, and the press, while also exploring the complex dynamics of a family. Follow the intense journey of a powerful family as they navigate their way through a web of secrets, lies, and corruption. Premiered in 2019.


Fearless (2017)Fearless (2017)
ITV, 2017 | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.7/5

Emma Banville is a solicitor known for defending lost causes. She's investigating the killing of a schoolgirl in East Anglia and trying to free the man she thinks was wrongly convicted of the girl's murder. As she digs ever deeper into the case, she begins to sense powerful forces, in the police and the intelligence services at home and abroad, who want to stop her uncovering the truth.


Penny DreadfulPenny Dreadful
Showtime, 2014 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.3/5

Some of literature's most famously terrifying characters - including Dr. Frankenstein and his creature, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula - become embroiled in Victorian London. The series weaves together these classic horror origin stories as the characters grapple with their monstrous alienation.


Peaky BlindersPeaky Blinders
BBC One, 2013 | Drama, Crime, History | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.6/5

This TV series focuses on the Shelby family, whose many brothers and sisters, cousins and uncles, make up the fiercest gang of all, the "Peaky Blinders". Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, the Peaky Blinders make their money from off-track betting, protection and robbery.


LeavingLeaving
ITV, 2012 | Drama
Rating: 3.5/5

A relationship drama written by acclaimed screenwriter Tony Marchant. It's a character-driven story about the complexities of love, family and growing up.


Charles II: The Power and the PassionCharles II: The Power and the Passion
BBC One, 2003 | Drama, Romance, History, Biography
Rating: 3/5

Charles II The Power & The Passion is set in the corridors and bedrooms of power, and takes place during a pivotal moment in our history, when the conflict between monarch and state is at a crossroads. Alongside Adrian Hodges's four-part drama Charles II The Power & The Passion, BBC One showed three accompanying documentaries. Cromwell Warts And All tells the story of Oliver Cromwell and uncovers the real reason why he wanted to destroy Charles I. The Boy Who Would Be King gave an insight into the early years of Charles II and reveals the dramatic events that shaped this complex and contradictory character. The Making Of Charles II The Power & The Passion A documentary going behind the scenes on the BBC's sumptuous, sensual four part drama chronicling the reign of the merry monarch. Filmed in Prague, Czech Republic.


The Jury (2002)The Jury (2002)
ITV, 2002 | Drama
Rating: 1/5

The killing of a 15-year-old-boy rocks the nation, as a Sikh classmate of the boy's is charged with the murder. The trial, which is framed by protests and media speculation, brings together 12 jurors who find themselves having to make a decision that the entire country is waiting for. The jurors include: Charles, a young man who has left the seminary to search for his lost love; Elsie, an old lonely woman who is dying; Johnny, a recovering alcoholic; Rose, a beautiful woman whose husband is paranoid in the aftermath of a car accident; Jeremy, a once-wealthy family man who lost all his money when conned by a friend in a bad investment; Peter, who wants to be a good and impartial juror at the trial but is besieged by his wife's parents, who want to get involved; and Marcia, a single mother who is forced to let her mother back into her life during the trial. The victim, John Maher, was stabbed twenty-eight times on his way to school one morning. His classmate, Duvinder Singh, is accused.


North SquareNorth Square
Channel 4, 2000 | Drama
Rating: 1/5

North Square is a British drama about a group of young, sexy, but irreverent barristers all hoping to make their mark in the legal profession at a Leeds defense chambers.