Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren
Biography
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. She received an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience, three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, including two for Prime Suspect. Excelling on stage with the National Youth Theatre, Mirren's performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965 saw her invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company before she made her West End stage debut in 1975. Since then, Mirren has also had success in television and film. Aside from her Academy Award-winning performance, Mirren's other Oscar-nominated performances were for The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009). For her role on Prime Suspect, which ran from 1991 to 2006, she won three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress (1992, 1993 and 1994), a joint-record of consecutive wins shared with Julie Walters, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Playing Queen Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I (2005), and Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (2006), she is the only actor to have portrayed both the regnant Elizabeths on screen. After her breakthrough film role in The Long Good Friday (1980), other notable film roles included Cal (1984), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, 2010 (1984), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Calendar Girls (2003), Hitchcock (2012), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Woman in Gold (2015), Trumbo (2015), and The Leisure Seeker (2017). She also appeared in the action films Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013) playing an ex-MI6 assassin, and in the Fast & Furious films The Fate of the Furious (2017), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and F9 (2021). In the Queen's 2003 Birthday Honours, Mirren was appointed a Dame (DBE) for services to drama, with investiture taking place at Buckingham Palace. In 2013 she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014 she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2021, she was announced as the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as The Spider
as Patricia Highsmith
as Elizabeth Best
as Queenie Shaw
as Grandmére
as Golda Meir
as Narrator (voice)
as Queenie Shaw
as Elle-même (archives)
as Hespera
as Therapist (voice)
as Cara Dutton
as Self – Actor
as Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
as Self
as Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Dorothy Bunton
as Queenie Shaw
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Host
as Narrator (voice)
as Peg
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
as Snickers (voice)
as Queen Elizabeth (archive)
as Betty McLeish
as Narrator
as Self
as Queenie Shaw
as Self (archive footage)
as Olga
as Margaret
as Catherine the Great
as Clue Giver (video)
as Mother Ginger
as Sarah Winchester
as Ella Spencer
as Self
as Queenie (uncredited)
as Narrator
as Brigitte
as Self - Performer
as Self (archive material)
as Hedda Hopper
as Colonel Katherine Powell
as Narrator (voice)
as Maria Altmann
as Helen Mirren - Host
as Madam Mallory
as Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (voice)
as Self
as Christine Mannon
as Self
as Victoria
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
as Self
as Linda Kenney Baden
as The Queen
as Self
as Alma Reville
as Emerenc Szeredás
as Self
as Hobson
as Self
as Victoria
as Rachel Singer
as Ida
as Prospera
as Nyra (voice)
as Grace Bontempo
as Narrator (voice)
as Sofya Tolstoya
as Narrator
as Phèdre
as Cameron Lynne
as Nica - Narrator
as Self
as Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
as Elinor Loredan
as Emily Appleton
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
as Rose
as Herself
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Deep Thought (voice)
as Queen Elizabeth I
as Eileen Hayes
as Macheeba (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Dominique Courier
as Chris Harper
as Karen Stone
as Mrs. Porter
as Self
as Herself
as Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
as Self
as Herself
as Mrs. Wilson
as Amy
as Georgina Woodhouse
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
as The Boss
as Doctor
as Self - Guest
as Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Mrs. Tingle
as Ayn Rand
as Self
as Queen (voice)
as Stella
as Maggie Sheridan
as Self
as Self
as Chase Phillips
as Kathleen Quigley
as The Snow Queen
as Self
as Queen Charlotte
as Narrator
as Geruth
as Annie Marsh
as Frances Penny Bethune
as Babette (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Lilia Herriton
as Sarah
as Jane Tennison
as Caroline
as Anna
as Georgina Spica
as Clemmie Jenkins
as Lydia Neuman
as Self
as Herself
as Alma Rattenbury
as Princess Emilia
as Herself
as Mother Fox
as Ruth Chancellor
as Narrator
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
as Galina Ivanova
as Maddie Duncan
as Tanya Kirbuk
as Marcella
as Self (uncredited)
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
as Imogen
as Celia
as Princess Emilia
as Titania
as Mrs. Reinhardt
as Morgana
as Self / Caesonia
as Victoria
as Alice Rage
as Beaty Simons
as May Sloan, Stewardess
as Caesonia
as Angela
as Rosalind
as Self
as Margery Pinchwife
as Stella
as Ophelia / Gertrude
as Babbie
as Celia
as Claretta Petacci
as Self
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Self
as Stella McKenzie
as Beatrice-Joanna
as Mrs. Reinhardt
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
as Stella McKenzie
as Gosh Boyle
as Miss Julie
as Valerie
as Stella
as Angela
as Cora Ryan
as Hermia
as Advert Woman
as Beauty Pageant Contestant (uncredited)
as Self
as Margery Pinchwife
as Beatrice-Joanna
as Orinthia
as Babbie
as Self
as Self
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Associate Producer
Director
as Director