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Dame Helen Mirren DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff, 26 July 1945) is an English actor who became an American citizen in 2017. 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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By age 20, Mirren was starring as Cleopatra in the 1965 production of Antony and Cleopatra. Her performance as the Egyptian leader landed her an agent, as well as a place with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). She began playing sexually charged roles such as Castiza in the 1966 staging of The Revenger’s Tragedy, Cressida in a 1968 production of ...
Mirren’s movie career began as an extension of her stage performances, starring in the film versions of her RSC productions. She appeared in Caligula(1980), which also starred Malcolm McDowell and Peter O’Toole. The film, controversial for its strong violence and explicit sex scenes, had a self-imposed X rating. As a result, Caligulaperformed poorl...
Mirren fared better in the gangster film The Long Good Friday (1979), which received strong praise. She followed this performance with a role in the fantasy film Excalibur (1981), which was based on the legend of King Arthur. But it was her role in Cal(1984) that landed Mirren her first major film awards: The Cannes Film Festival prize for Best Act...
In 1985, Mirren was cast in White Nights; she worked on the film with director Taylor Hackford, and soon began seeing him off the set. The following year, Mirren appeared in the critically acclaimed Mosquito Coast, followed by another critics’ favorite, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover(1989).
In 1992, Mirren landed her breakthrough TV role as Detective Inspector Jane Tennison in the public television mystery series Prime Suspect. By the time the show concluded in 2006, Mirren had taken home five BAFTA Awards and several Emmy Award nominations for her performance on the show, including a win in 1996 for Outstanding Lead Actress. Mirren c...
Mirren’s film career was also heating up, and in 1996, she earned her first Academy Award nomination for The Madness of King George. The film also earned Mirren her second Best Actress win at Cannes and another BAFTA award. Mirren continued to star in critically acclaimed fare, including the British mystery Gosford Park (2001), which led to her sec...
In 2007, Mirren finally gained a reputation as an A-list actor for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. Her performance landed Mirren her first Oscar and also earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress. She then nabbed a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the HBO movie Elizabeth I.
In 2010, Mirren was nominated for her fourth Academy Award for her turn in the Leo Tolstoy biopic The Last Station. For the performance, she also earned her first Screen Actors Guild and Independent Spirit awards. Mirren soon tackled a very different type of film: a fast-paced action thriller. In Red (2010), she co-starred with Morgan Freeman and B...
Mirren earned accolades for her portrayal of Alma Reville, the wife of director Alfred Hitchcock, in the 2012 biopic Hitchcock. She co-starred with Anthony Hopkins, who plays the film’s title character, as well as actors Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, and Toni Collette.
In 2014, Mirren earned another Golden Globe nomination for her part in the restaurant comedy The Hundred-Foot Journey. She returned to the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the Broadway play The Audience, which was written by Peter Morgan, who also penned the screenplay for The Queen. In June 2015, she won her first Tony Award for the performance, and ...
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Apr 29, 2024 · Helen Mirren, British actress especially known for her role as Jane Tennison on the television series Prime Suspect and for her subtle and sympathetic portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), for which she won an Academy Award. Learn more about these roles and others.
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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.
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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.
Global Icon Barbie® honours acclaimed Actress Dame Helen Mirren with a one-of-a-kind doll made in her likeness ahead of International Women’s Day. The award-winning star of stage and screen is named latest Barbie UK Role Model as the brand celebrates ‘Female Storytellers’ as part of its 65th anniversary celebrations The 78-year-old ...
