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Dame Helen Mirren DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff, [4] 26 July 1945) is a British actor. With a career spanning 60 years, she is the recipient of numerous accolades and is the only performer to have achieved both the American and the British Triple Crowns of Acting.
Helen Mirren. Actress: The Queen. Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat.
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Dec 14, 2022 · See how the Oscar-winning actress evolved from a working-class girl in London to a Hollywood legend. Explore her roles on stage, screen, and TV, from Shakespeare to "The Queen."
Jan 7, 2024 · Dame Helen Mirren is an Oscar-winning actor known for her roles in ‘The Queen’ and ‘Hitchcock.’ She is nominated for a 2024 Golden Globe Award.
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- Helen Mirren's Early Life. Helen Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in 1945. Her father Anglicized the family name to "Mirren" when Helen was around 9 years old.
- Helen Mirren's Big Break. Mirren got her big break in theater playing Cleopatra with the National Youth Theater in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965. "I loved the power and the passion of that role, and of course, it's always good to be Queen," she wrote in her 2008 memoir In the Frame.
- Helen Mirren on Stage. As she grew in popularity, she starred in Troilus and Cressida as Cressida in 1968 and in Macbeth as Lady Macbeth in 1974. Then after four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mirren joined renowned director Peter Brook and his theater company and toured the United States and Africa.
- Helen Mirren in 'Age of Consent' Mirren's first major movie was director Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969). The then-22-year-old actress played Cora, a beautiful Queenslander and muse of Australian painter Bradley Morahan (James Mason).
Learn about the life and career of Dame Helen Mirren, a British actress of Russian descent who has starred in many films and theatre productions. Find out her birth name, family, awards, trivia, quotes and more on IMDb.
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE (née Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
