Helen Mirren
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-07-26
- Place of birth:
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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
Filmography
A Talent for Murder
Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
Goodbye June
This Ordinary Thing
The Thursday Murder Club
MobLand
Duse, the Greatest
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
White Bird
Golda
Barbie
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Fast X
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
1923
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Remembers…
Human Resources
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
Escape from Extinction
Parkinson at 50
The Duke
When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren
Solos
F9
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
The One and Only Ivan
Secrets of the Museum
Berlin, I Love You
The Good Liar
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
On Broadway
Catherine the Great
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
An Accidental Studio
Anna
The Masked Singer
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Winchester
The Leisure Seeker
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
The Pulitzer At 100
The Fate of the Furious
Cries from Syria
Collateral Beauty
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Trumbo
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Eye in the Sky
Documentary Now!
Unity
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Woman in Gold
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Istintobrass
RED 2
Monsters University
Goodbye Granadaland
Phil Spector
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Radioman
Hitchcock
The Door
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
The Jonathan Ross Show
Arthur
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
RED
The Debt
Brighton Rock
The Tempest
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Love Ranch
Arabia 3D
Live from Studio Five
The Last Station
Yes Madam, Sir
All the Queen's Horses with Alan Titchmarsh
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Glee
State of Play
The Jazz Baroness
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Inkheart
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
British Film Forever
The Graham Norton Show
The Making of 'The Queen'
The Queen
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
The One Show
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Elizabeth I
Shadowboxer
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Parkinson
The Clearing
Pride
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Raising Helen
Calendar Girls
Celebrity Naked Ambition
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Top Gear
Door to Door
The Making of Gosford Park
American Idol
No Such Thing
Robert Altman in England
Brook by Brook
Live from E!
Gosford Park
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Last Orders
Greenfingers
On the Edge
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
The Pledge
Long Night's Journey into Day
The Early Show
Third Watch
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
The Passion of Ayn Rand
The Prince of Egypt
Parkinson
Painted Lady
Critical Care
The View
Leute heute
Losing Chase
Some Mother's Son
TFI Friday
Ruby Wax Meets
The Frank Skinner Show
The Snow Queen
The Madness of King George
Children of God
Prince of Jutland
The Hawk
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
GMTV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
A Friend in New Orleans
The Hidden Room
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Prime Suspect
The Comfort of Strangers
Red King, White Knight
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
When the Whales Came
This Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Pascali's Island
Cause Célèbre
The Little Mermaid
French & Saunders
The Mosquito Coast
Heavenly Pursuits
Invocation: Maya Deren
Coming Through
White Nights
The Twilight Zone
Screen Two
2010
Cal
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Goldene Kamera
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Cymbeline
Reading Rainbow
Soft Targets
Faerie Tale Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mrs. Reinhardt
Excalibur
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie
The Long Good Friday
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Hussy
S.O.S. Titanic
Caligula
Blue Remembered Hills
As You Like It
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The South Bank Show
An Audience with...
The Country Wife
Laurence Olivier Presents
The Collection
Hamlet
The Little Minister
The Philanthropist
Saturday Night Live
Caesar and Claretta
Private Affairs
The Apple Cart
The Empty Space
A Coffin for the Bride
Playhouse
The Changeling
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Thriller
O Lucky Man!
Miss Julie
Savage Messiah
Film '72
Cousin Bette
Great Performances
Play for Today
Red Hot Shot
Age of Consent
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Omnibus
Herostratus
BBC Play of the Month
The Oscars
Today
Golden Globe Awards
Sniff
Co-Op: Original Cast Album