British actress Helen McCrory, star of Peaky Blinders, died today at the age of 52. Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, announced her death in a touching Twitter tribute to “the beautiful and mighty woman” who lost her “heroic battle with cancer.”
Exactly a year ago, Deadline’s Jake Kanter spoke with the A-list couple in the first weeks of the pandemic as part of Deadline’s “Coping With Covid-19 Crisis” series. In a lively and heartwarming interview, the two spoke of their initiative to feed frontline health care workers in the UK. In just a couple of weeks, the duo raised $1 million and built a centralized system for hot meals to be delivered to health care workers in London.
“We haven’t slept and we’re on the phone all the time,” McCrory told Deadline in the April 2020 interview. “You’re improvising and making it up as you go along...
Exactly a year ago, Deadline’s Jake Kanter spoke with the A-list couple in the first weeks of the pandemic as part of Deadline’s “Coping With Covid-19 Crisis” series. In a lively and heartwarming interview, the two spoke of their initiative to feed frontline health care workers in the UK. In just a couple of weeks, the duo raised $1 million and built a centralized system for hot meals to be delivered to health care workers in London.
“We haven’t slept and we’re on the phone all the time,” McCrory told Deadline in the April 2020 interview. “You’re improvising and making it up as you go along...
- 4/16/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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