Cillian Murphy says Helen McCrory ‘one of the greatest actors’

Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory at the premiere of Peaky Blinders: Series 2 at Broad Street Cineworld, Birmingham. File picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Cork actor Cillian Murphy has said he appreciates how Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight has kept the late actress Helen McCrory’s memory alive in the new spin-off film.

McCrory played Shelby family matriarch Polly Gray in the hit BBC drama for five seasons from when it started in 2013 until her death from cancer in 2021 at the age of 52.