Helen McCrory told family to be brave about her death, says Damian Lewis

The actor, who died at age 52, had kept her cancer private and told her children she'd lived the life she wanted

Before she died, the actor Helen McCrory repeatedly urged her teenage children to be courageous and not sad about her death, her husband Damian Lewis has said.

In a moving tribute to the Peaky Blinders star, Lewis said: She's left our beautiful children, Manon and Gully, too early, but they have been prepared for life."