The London-born actress, who starred as Narcissa Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” franchise, had an arch, mysterious high quality that served her perfectly in villainous roles, together with the period of time dramas “Peaky Blinders” and “Penny Dreadful” and the “Vampires of Venice” episode of the prolonged working “Medical professional Who.”
Very last calendar year, she appeared in two miniseries: The Masterpiece manufacturing “Roadkill,” in which she performed the UK’s Primary Minister reverse Hugh Laurie and “Quiz,” a fact-primarily based drama about the “Who Needs to be a MIllionaire” scandal.
She was no stranger to political roles, playing Cherie Blair — the wife of British primary minister Tony Blair — twice, in “The Queen” and the Tv set film “The Distinctive Romance,” each periods with Michael Sheen