Helen Mirren

Acting

Born Jul 26, 1945

From Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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.

Helen Mirren

Known For

Barbie

Fast X

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

The Fate of the Furious

The Prince of Egypt

Caligula

RED

Anna

Golda

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Filmography — Acting

Barbie

Fast X

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

The Fate of the Furious

The Prince of Egypt

Caligula

RED

Anna

Golda

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Monsters University

F9

Gosford Park

Excalibur

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2010

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

The Thursday Murder Club

RED 2

State of Play

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Queen

Prince of Jutland

White Bird

Inkheart

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Pledge

The Long Good Friday

Collateral Beauty

Goodbye June

Hitchcock

Arthur

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Trumbo

The Good Liar

The Hundred-Foot Journey

Eye in the Sky

The Leisure Seeker

Calendar Girls

The Debt

White Nights

Woman in Gold

Winchester

Raising Helen

Unity

The Mosquito Coast

The One and Only Ivan

Love Ranch

The Duke

Age of Consent

Door to Door

Shadowboxer

The Tempest

Phil Spector

Last Orders

The Madness of King George

Cal

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Brighton Rock

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

The Clearing

Berlin, I Love You

Istintobrass

The Last Station

Critical Care

O Lucky Man!

Radioman