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Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren

Birthday: 1945-07-26 | Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Duke

as    Dorothy Bunton

2021
Escape from Extinction

as    Narrator

2021
When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren

as    Narrator (voice)

2021
F9

as    Queenie Shaw

2021
2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

as    Lip-sync Billy Bush

2020
The One and Only Ivan

as    Snickers (voice)

2019
The Good Liar

as    Betty McLeish

2019
Catherine the Great

as    Catherine the Great

2019
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories

as    Narrator

2019
Anna

as    Olga

2019
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

as    Queenie Shaw

2019
An Accidental Studio

as    Self (archive footage)

2018
The Leisure Seeker

as    Ella Spencer

2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

as    Mother Ginger

2018
Winchester

as    Sarah Winchester

2017
The Pulitzer At 100

as    Herself

2016
Collateral Beauty

as    Brigitte

2016
Eye in the Sky

as    Colonel Katherine Powell

2015
Trumbo

as    Hedda Hopper

2015
Documentary Now!

as    Helen Mirren - Host

2015
Woman in Gold

as    Maria Altmann

2014
The Hundred-Foot Journey

as    Madam Mallory

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as    Self (archive footage)

2013
Monsters University

as    Dean Hardscrabble (voice)

2013
RED 2

as    Victoria