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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).
Aug 25, 2023 · Her father Anglicized the family name to "Mirren" when Helen was around 9 years old. Growing up in London, England, Helen was attracted to acting at a young age, landing her first role during ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Fans of the Fast & Furious franchise know that even in action films, Dame Helen Mirren manages to be both the boss and the queen. In the movie series, she plays a seasoned criminal, the mother of ...
Aug 14, 2017 · Born Helen Lydia Mironoff (her parents Anglicized the family name to Mirren when she was around nine years old) to a Russian father and an English mother, the actress grew up in Southend-on-Sea ...
Jun 7, 2022 · For details on Mirren, you have to dig into her 2008 biography, In the Frame. Descended from Russian aristocrats exiled to England during the Bolshevik Revolution, the formerly rich Mironov family started over in London’s East End and soon Anglicized their last name to Mirren.
Helen Mirren. Dame Helen Mirren DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff, [4] 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.
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Mar 9, 2022 · The acting great reflects on her career so far. "Thank you for letting me burble on about my career," Helen Mirren laughs self-deprecatingly, after looking back on her glittering body of work in ...
