A prolific English actress with a marked flair for period drama, Helen McCrory accepted one of her first roles as a New Orleans prostitute in Neil_Jordan's gothic horror opus Interview with the Vampire (1994); though this merely constituted a bit part, McCrory gradually ascended to higher billing in outings such as Witness_Against_Hitler (1995), The_James_Gang (1997), and Split_Second (1999), before tackling the lead role of Anna Karenina in director David_Blair's 2001 miniseries adaptation of Leo_Tolstoy's seminal novel, and signed for another lead in the humorous made-for-television crime thriller Dead_Gorgeous (2002), adapted from the novel -On the Edge by Peter_Lovesey. McCrory maintained a higher profile and netted more widespread global recognition as the title character's mother in Lasse_Hallström's Casanova (2005) and as Cherie Blair, the wife of British prime minister Tony_Blair, in the 2006 docudrama The_Queen. McCrory then signed for a plum role as Narcissa Malfoy in the fantasy Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2008). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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