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Dame Helen Mirren DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff, 26 July 1945) is an English and later English-American 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.
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- January 1, 1
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- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Who Is Helen Mirren?
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- Early Life
- Aspiring Actor
- Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
- Caligula
- The Long Good Friday and Cal
- White Nights and Mosquito Coast
- Prime Suspect
- The Madness of King George and Gosford Park
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Dame Helen Mirren pursued stage work before debuting in movies during the 1960s. A versatile, highly skilled actor, Mirren has starred in many movies, including Caligula, Excalibur, Calendar Girls, and The Last Station. She was lauded for her lead role in the series Prime Suspect and she’s portrayed Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II, winning...
FULL NAME: Helen Lydia Mirren BORN: July 26, 1945 BIRTHPLACE: London, England SPOUSE: Taylor Hackford (1997-present) ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo
Helen Mirren was born Ilynea Lydia Petrovna Mironoff on July 26, 1945, in the Chiswick area of London as the second of three children of Vasiliy Petrovich “Basil” Mironoff and Kathleen Rogers. Mirren’s father played the viola with the London Philharmonic. He later left the orchestra to become a cab driver and driving test examiner, both professions...
Mirren was attracted to theater at an early age, finding her inspiration at the age of 13 at an amateur production of Hamlet. “I was blown away by all this over-the-top drama,” she said in an interview with The Times UK. “We grew up without TV and never went to the cinema, so after Hamlet, all I wanted to do was get back into that world where all t...
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...
Learn about the life and career of Dame Helen Mirren, a versatile and award-winning actor who starred in movies, TV, and theater. Find out about her roles in Prime Suspect, Caligula, The Queen, and more.
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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.
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Learn about the life and career of Dame Helen Mirren, an English actor who has won an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a DBE for her roles in film, television, and theatre. Find out her upcoming and recent projects, awards, and filmography on TMDB.
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Learn about the life and career of Dame Helen Mirren, the award-winning actress who starred in The Queen, Excalibur, and many other films. Find out her birth name, family, spouse, children, trivia, quotes, and more on IMDb.
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