Helen Mirren
Acting
Biography
Dame Helen Mirren (/ˈmɪrən/; born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov; July 26, 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.
Born: July 26, 1945
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Elizabeth
as Maeve Harrigan
as Grandmére
as Golda Meir
as Narrator (voice)
as Queenie Shaw
as Hespera
as Cara Dutton
as Therapist (voice)
as Self – Actor
as Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
as Self
as Self - Host
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Dorothy Bunton
as Narrator (voice)
as Peg
as Queenie Shaw
as Self (archive footage)
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
as Snickers (voice)
as Queen Elizabeth (archive)
as Grandmother Turtle
as Margaret
as Betty McLeish
as Narrator
as Self
as Catherine the Great
as Self
as Queenie Shaw
as Self (archive footage)
as Olga
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 Helen Mirren - Host
as Narrator (voice)
as Maria Altmann
as Madam Mallory
as Self (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Victoria
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
as Linda Kenney Baden
as The Queen
as Self
as Alma Reville
as Emerenc Szeredás
as Self
as Hobson
as Victoria
as Rachel Singer
as Ida
as Prospera
as Nyra (voice)
as Grace Bontempo
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Sofya Tolstoya
as Phèdre
as Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
as Cameron Lynne
as Nica - Narrator
as Elinor Loredan
as Emily Appleton
as Self
as Self - Guest
as The Queen
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Queen Elizabeth I
as Rose
as Deep Thought (voice)
as Eileen Hayes
as Macheeba (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Dominique Courier
as Chris Harper
as Karen Stone
as Self
as Mrs. Porter
as Self
as Self
as The Boss
as Herself
as Mrs. Wilson
as Self - Guest
as Amy
as Georgina Woodhouse
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Narrator
as Self
as Annie Foster
as Self (archive footage)
as Mrs. Tingle
as Ayn Rand
as Queen (voice)
as Self
as Maggie Sheridan
as Stella
as Self
as Chase Phillips
as Kathleen Quigley
as Self
as The Snow Queen
as Queen Charlotte
as Narrator
as Geruth
as Annie Marsh
as Frances Penny Bethune
as Babette (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Sarah
as Lilia Herriton
as Jane Tennison
as Caroline
as Anna
as Georgina Spica
as Clemmie Jenkins
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Lydia Neuman
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 (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
as Tanya Kirbuk
as Marcella
as Self (uncredited)
as Herself
as Imogen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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 Ophelia / Gertrude
as Stella
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Claretta Petacci
as Self
as Stella McKenzie
as Mrs. Reinhardt
as Beatrice-Joanna
as Stella McKenzie
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
as Gosh Boyle
as Miss Julie
as Valérie Marneffe
as Stella
as Angela
as Cora Ryan
as Hermia
as Advert Woman
as Margery Pinchwife
as Beatrice-Joanna
as Orinthia
as Babbie
as Self
as Self
as Queenie Shaw