Helen Mirren
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.
Known For
The Queen
The Queen
The Spider
Sniff
Elinor Loredan
Inkheart
Alice Rage
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Mrs. Tingle
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Eileen Hayes
The Clearing
Dominique Courier
Raising Helen
Tanya Kirbuk
2010
Mrs. Wilson
Gosford Park
Mother Fox
The Mosquito Coast
Morgana
Excalibur
Doctor
The Pledge
Patricia Highsmith
Switzerland
Queen Charlotte
The Madness of King George
Emily Appleton
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Deep Thought (voice)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Georgina Spica
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Chris Harper
Calendar Girls
Caesonia
Caligola
Georgina Woodhouse
Greenfingers
Queen (voice)
The Prince of Egypt
Rose
Shadowboxer
The Boss
No Such Thing
Golda Meir
Golda
Nyra (voice)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Marcella
Cal
Mrs. Porter
Door to Door
Caroline
The Comfort of Strangers
Patricia / Casting Assistant
O Lucky Man!
Sofya Tolstoya
The Last Station
Amy
Last Orders
Victoria
The Long Good Friday
Stella
Critical Care
Ida
Brighton Rock
Prospera
The Tempest
Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
Monsters University
Galina Ivanova
White Nights
Victoria
RED
Cameron Lynne
State of Play
Macheeba (voice)
Pride
Grace Bontempo
Love Ranch
Hobson
Arthur
Rachel Singer
The Debt
Self
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
Cora Ryan
Age of Consent
Geruth
Prince of Jutland
Ayn Rand
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Queenie Shaw
Fast Forever
Emerenc Szeredás
Az ajtó
Kathleen Quigley
Some Mother's Son
Gosh Boyle
Savage Messiah
Beaty Simons
Hussy
Lilia Herriton
Where Angels Fear to Tread
May Sloan, Stewardess
S.O.S. Titanic
Self
Goodbye Granadaland
Narrator
Yes Madam, Sir
Nica - Narrator
The Jazz Baroness
Chase Phillips
Losing Chase
The Apple Cart
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen
Alma Reville
Hitchcock
Alma Rattenbury
Cause Célèbre
Victoria
RED 2
Lydia Neuman
Pascali's Island
Grandmére
White Bird
Annie Marsh
The Hawk
Karen Stone
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Self
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
Stella
The Collection
Hermia
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
On the Edge
Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50
Claretta Petacci
Caesar and Claretta
Linda Kenney Baden
Phil Spector
Ruth Chancellor
Heavenly Pursuits
Self
Radioman
The Queen
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
Herself
Robert Altman in England
Miss Julie
Miss Julie
Madam Mallory
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Self / Caesonia
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
Titania
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Advert Woman
Herostratus
Margaret
Berlin, I Love You
Beatrice-Joanna
The Changeling
Anna
Red King, White Knight
Narrator (voice)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Hedda Hopper
Trumbo
Narrator
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
Frances Penny Bethune
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Maria Altmann
Woman in Gold
Queenie
Fast X
Tiberia
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Clemmie Jenkins
When the Whales Came
Colonel Katherine Powell
Eye in the Sky
Narrator (voice)
Arabia 3D
Herself
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
Babbie
The Little Minister
Mrs. Reinhardt
Mrs. Reinhardt
Celia
The Philanthropist
Narrator (voice)
Unity
Ophelia / Gertrude
Hamlet
Narrator (voice)
Barbie
Elizabeth
The Thursday Murder Club
Therapist (voice)
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
Brigitte
Collateral Beauty
Narrator
Long Night's Journey Into Day
Angela
Blue Remembered Hills
Phèdre
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Margery Pinchwife
The Country Wife
Self
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
Coming Through
Self - Performer
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self (archive material)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Queenie (uncredited)
The Fate of the Furious
Sarah Winchester
Winchester
Colpo rovente
Mother Ginger
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Celia
Soft Targets
Rosalind
As You Like It
Ella Spencer
The Leisure Seeker
Self (uncredited)
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Olga
Anna
Self
The Pulitzer At 100
Narrator
Cries from Syria
Princess Emilia
The Little Mermaid
Betty McLeish
The Good Liar
Self
The Empty Space
Snickers (voice)
The One and Only Ivan
Narrator
Invocation: Maya Deren
Narrator
Children of God
Imogen
Cymbeline
Self (archive footage)
An Accidental Studio
Narrator
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
Queenie Shaw
F9
Queenie Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Sharon
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
The Duke
Grandmother Turtle
Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans
Stella McKenzie
A Coffin for the Bride
Self
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Narrator (voice)
Escape from Extinction
Self
Istintobrass
Lip-sync Billy Bush
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Self
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
Self
The Making of Gosford Park
Hespera
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Self
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Self
On Broadway
Duse, the Greatest
Herself
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
June
Goodbye June
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Herself
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Self
The Making of 'The Queen'
Self (voice)
This Ordinary Thing
Self (archive)
Helen Mirren, une actrice royale
Self (archive footage)
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
161
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-07-26
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Helen Lydia Mironoff