Playing Narcissa Malfoy, Draco’s mother, in the Harry Potter saga, actress Helen McCrory caused a wave of sadness in the hero’s fan community with her death from breast cancer at the age of 52. years old on April 16, 2021. The one that can be found in The Deathly Hallows – Part 1 this August 18, 2022 on TF1 had a very good career as an actress and a united family. Her husband Damian Lewis, famous hero of the series Homelandpaid him a moving tribute in the pages of Sunday Times.
In his forum to honor his wife and mother of their two children Manon and Gulliver, born respectively in 2006 and 2007, Damian Lewis wrote a superb letter published in the British media Tea Sunday Times : “Helen was an even brighter person than she was an actress. (…) Her principles of life were benevolence and generosity (…) She always asked people how they were doing, was always interested in them, made each person she met feel special, as if she were the only person in the room. She gave them her full attention. Made them laugh, always. There were few people funnier than her – she was really funny.”
Suffering from breast cancer against which she fought valiantly, she was able to prepare, seeing the inevitable happen, words intended for her loved ones. This is how Damian Lewis relates them: “She left our beautiful children, Manon and Gully, too soon, but they were prepared for life. They have in them the fearlessness, the spirit, the curiosity, the talent and the beauty of their mother. She urged us to be brave and not to be afraid. As she repeatedly told the children: ‘Don’t be sad, because even though I’m about to leave, I’ve lived the life I wanted.'”
Damian Lewis also recounts the very particular request that also shines in Peaky Blinders said to him:Just a few weeks ago she told us from her bed: ‘I want daddy to have girlfriends, lots of girlfriends, you all need to love again, love is not possessive. But hey Damian, at least try to get through the funeral without kissing anyone.’“A special piece of advice that may surprise at first given the circumstances, but which turns out to be of infinite nobility from a woman who loves her loved ones madly and who wanted to give back more”acceptable“which seemed not to be.”His greatest and most exquisite act of bravery and generosity was to ‘normalize’ his death. She showed neither fear nor bitterness nor self-pity, she only armed us with courage to carry on and insisted that no one be sad, because she is happy“, he added.
The 51-year-old widower followed his wife’s words: in June 2022, he formalized his new relationship with musician Alison Mosshart, famous sidekick to Jamie Hince in the band The Kills.