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Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 [12] [13] at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the Hammersmith district of London, [14] [15] to an English mother and Russian father. [16]
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.
- July 26, 1945
Her parents, who Anglicized their "Mironoff" surname to Mirren, settled in Ilford, Essex, where a teenage Mirren worked summers at an amusement park. Mirren was educated at a convent school, where she discovered the plays of William Shakespeare and became engrossed in their intricate plots and well-drawn characters during her teen years.
Helen Mirren was born as Helen Lydia Mironoff on July 26, 1945 at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, west London, to English mother Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda and Russian father Vasily Petrovich Mironoff.
Dec 14, 2022 · Mirren's father, who found work in London as a cab driver, was a Russian immigrant who changed his name from Mironoff to Mirren when Helen was about 10 years old. "In those days, to have any kind of a foreign name in Britain was quite uncomfortable," she said. Her mother was from an old English family of tradespeople.
Jul 25, 2024 · Helen Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in 1945. Her father Anglicized the family name to "Mirren" when Helen was around 9 years old.
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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.
