Peaky Blinders wraps filming on sixth and final season with Helen McCrory tribute

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The Mirror reports that Cillian had told Today FM: "It’s desperately sad, sad for all of us who knew her and the people who were close to her and the fans. "She was like the matriarch of Peaky Blinders and the person I was closest to.

Helen McCrory has been 'desperately sad'. Paying tribute to Helen, Cillian, 45, who plays Tommy Shelby in the Birmingham-based BBC show - nephew to Helen's Polly - revealed: 'She was like the matriarch of Peaky Blinders, and I think my closest colleague on the show.

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has spoken about his heartache at filming the final episodes of the drama without late co-star and close friend Helen McCrory.The pair had starred as Tommy Shelby and Aunt Polly since series one of the BBC programme, and Cillian was devastated not to be able to complete the sixth and final series with her. He told Irish radio station Today FM: "It’s desperately sad.

Peaky Blinders.The actor spoke to Radio X’s Chris Moyles about his upcoming role in the sixth series of the hit show, and describe his time filming the show as a “joy”.“Cillian’s such a wonderful actor, he’s amazing and what a lovely, lovely, lovely fella,” Graham said.“To the extent, Chris, where there was a couple of moments – I had to pinch myself a couple of times because I was sat there in a scene with him, doing a rehearsal and stuff and I’ve kinda gone, ‘Ahh that’s Tommy Shelby!’”Hannah

Damian Lewis has shared that he is ‘very proud’ that he and his late wife Helen McCrory were able to raise almost €2 million for the NHS in the UK before her death. The actress passed away from cancer, a diagnosis she kept hidden from the public.

Damian Lewis is “very proud” of the charity work he did with his late wife Helen McCrory. The 50-year-old actor and the ‘Peaky Blinders’ star – who passed away in April following a secret battle with cancer – raised over £1 million for the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic last year through their Feed NHS campaign, which also helped to provide thousands of meals for doctors and nurses on the frontline.

Five months before the death of his wife Helen McCrory, actor Damian Lewis was mourning the loss of his nephew.

Peaky Blinders co-star Helen McCrory, who died of cancer in April aged 52.McCrory had starred as the Shelby family matriarch Aunt Polly in Peaky Blinders since the show debuted in 2013. She was one of only four cast members to appear in every episode.Paying tribute to the beloved actor, Peaky Blinders’ lead star Murphy has told The Guardian: “I was kind of in awe about how she lived her life.“She was my closest colleague on Peaky, and one of the finest actors I’ve ever worked opposite.

The nephew of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory died in a car accident after he ‘inexplicably’ drove on the wrong side of the road, an inquest into his death has heard.

Damian Lewis' nephew died in a tragic car accident just five months before the devastating death of his wife, Helen McCrory, it has emerged. Hugo, the 20 year old son of Damian's sister Amanda Yaxley, passed away at Southampton General Hospital in the early hours of November 17 last year.