
Helen Mirren
10 FOLLOWERS • 77 CREDITS • JUL 26, 1945 • 79
Biography
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.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

Frasier

The Oscars

The Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Glee

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Early Show

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Third Watch

The Masked Singer

American Idol

The Jonathan Ross Show

SNL Digital Shorts

E! Live from the Red Carpet

Faerie Tale Theatre

The Twilight Zone

Top Gear

Today

Human Resources

Solos

The Fate of the Furious

On the Edge

Barbie

Gosford Park

Fast X: Part 2

Fast X

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

F9

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Prince of Egypt

Inkheart

The One and Only Ivan

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

RED 2

Collateral Beauty

O Lucky Man!

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Monsters University

RED

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

Excalibur

Red King, White Knight

Sniff

MobLand

Caligula

2010

The Clearing

1923

Winchester

The Madness of King George

Anna

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Golda

The Good Liar

White Bird

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Losing Chase

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Debt

Catherine the Great

Woman in Gold

Elizabeth I

Calendar Girls

The Queen

Eye in the Sky

Prime Suspect
Production Credits
Shows+ Discover & Track Series
Stay on top of your TV schedule with Shows+, the effortless tracker that keeps you informed about new episodes, season releases, and where to watch, stream, rent, or buy your favorite shows, ensuring you never miss out again!
Get
