Helen McCrory’s brave cancer battle was kept secret from her friends until just days before her tragic death, it has been reported. Actor David Harewood, who starred with Helen’s widow Damian Lewis in Homeland, revealed his co-star texted him about Helen’s condition ‘a couple of days’ before it was announced that she had sadly passed … Read more
Helen McCrory’s brave cancer battle was kept secret from her friends until just days before her tragic death, it has been reported. Actor David Harewood, who starred with Helen’s widow Damian Lewis in Homeland, revealed his co-star texted him about Helen’s condition ‘a couple of days’ before it was announced that she had sadly passed … Read more
Helen McCrory’s friend Carrie Cracknell has revealed those close to the Peaky Blinders star ‘were sworn to secrecy’ when it came to her cancer battle. Discussing her friend’s tragic passing on Saturday, Cracknell, 41 – who is a theatre director – told BBC Radio Four’s Today: ‘Helen wanted to be very private about her illness. Very few … Read more
Helen McCrory’s devoted husband Damian Lewis announced she had tragically lost her life after a ‘heroic’ battle with cancer aged 52 on Friday. Damian, 50, stood by the actress’ side as she secretly battled the disease, with Helen brushing off her hoarse voice in her final TV appearance last month to selflessly talk about their … Read more
Helen McCrory swore friends to secrecy as she dealt ‘heroically’ with her gruelling cancer treatment while continuing to carry out charity work just weeks before her death aged 52, a colleague revealed today. Carrie Cracknell, who directed Helen McCrory in a stage production of Medea, said the actress wanted to keep her illness secret to … Read more
Helen McCrory swore friends to secrecy as she dealt ‘heroically’ with her gruelling cancer treatment while continuing to carry out charity work just weeks before her death aged 52, a colleague revealed today. Carrie Cracknell, who directed Helen McCrory in a stage production of Medea, said the actress wanted to keep her illness secret to … Read more
Helen McCrory’s devoted husband Damian Lewis announced she had tragically lost her life after a ‘heroic’ battle with cancer aged 52 on Friday. Damian, 50, stood by the actress’ side as she secretly battled the disease, with Helen brushing off her hoarse voice in her final TV appearance last month to selflessly talk about their … Read more
Roadkill Sunday, BBC1 Rating: DNA Saturday, BBC4 Rating: Roadkill, the latest political thriller from David Hare, stars Hugh Laurie as shady Tory Minister Peter Laurence and Helen McCrory as the Prime Minister, and both are so wonderful and mesmerising and terrific that if I had my way, I’d cut everyone else out, and all the … Read more