Helen Mirren
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-07-26
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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.
Also Known For
The Queen
Sep 15, 2006
Sniff
Inkheart
Dec 11, 2008
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Aug 08, 1980
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Aug 11, 1999
The Clearing
Jul 02, 2004
Raising Helen
May 27, 2004
2010
Dec 06, 1984
Gosford Park
Dec 26, 2001
The Mosquito Coast
Nov 26, 1986
Excalibur
Apr 10, 1981
The Pledge
Jan 19, 2001
Switzerland
The Madness of King George
Dec 28, 1994
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Dec 19, 2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Apr 28, 2005
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Oct 13, 1989
Calendar Girls
Sep 02, 2003
Caligula
Aug 14, 1979
Greenfingers
Jul 27, 2001
The Prince of Egypt
Dec 16, 1998
Shadowboxer
Sep 09, 2005
No Such Thing
Mar 29, 2002
Golda
Aug 23, 2023
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Jul 10, 2010
Cal
Aug 24, 1984
Door to Door
Jul 14, 2002
The Comfort of Strangers
Nov 01, 1990
O Lucky Man!
Mar 25, 1973
The Last Station
Sep 04, 2009
Last Orders
Sep 10, 2001
The Long Good Friday
Nov 01, 1980
Critical Care
Oct 31, 1997
Brighton Rock
Sep 13, 2010
The Tempest
Sep 11, 2010
Monsters University
Jun 19, 2013
White Nights
Nov 22, 1985
RED
Oct 13, 2010
State of Play
Apr 17, 2009
Pride
Jun 21, 2004
Press for Time
Jan 01, 1966
Love Ranch
Jun 30, 2010
Arthur
Apr 08, 2011
The Debt
Sep 30, 2010
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
Dec 16, 2021
Age of Consent
May 13, 1969
Prince of Jutland
Feb 23, 1994
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Jan 27, 1999
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
Apr 15, 2023
Fast X: Part 2
The Door
Mar 08, 2012
Some Mother's Son
Sep 13, 1996
Savage Messiah
Jun 27, 1972
Hussy
May 01, 1980
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Jun 21, 1991
S.O.S. Titanic
Feb 29, 1980
Goodbye Granadaland
Jun 15, 2013
Yes Madam, Sir
Jul 31, 2009
The Jazz Baroness
Apr 17, 2009
Losing Chase
Dec 06, 1996
The Apple Cart
Jan 19, 1975
The Snow Queen
Jan 01, 1995
Hitchcock
Nov 22, 2012
Cause Célèbre
Aug 23, 1987
RED 2
Jul 18, 2013
Pascali's Island
Jul 22, 1988
White Bird
Oct 25, 2023
The Hawk
Dec 03, 1993
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
May 04, 2003
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
Nov 01, 2011
The Collection
Jan 01, 1976
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sep 30, 1968
On the Edge
Jun 28, 2001
Parkinson at 50
Aug 28, 2021
Caesar and Claretta
May 08, 1975
Phil Spector
Jun 14, 2013
Heavenly Pursuits
Jul 11, 1986
Radioman
Dec 07, 2012
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Jun 12, 2013
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Mar 26, 2021
Robert Altman in England
Feb 03, 2002
Miss Julie
Jan 01, 1972
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Aug 06, 2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
Jan 01, 1981
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dec 13, 1981
Herostratus
Jul 10, 1967
Berlin, I Love You
Dec 04, 2019
The Changeling
Jan 20, 1974
Red King, White Knight
Nov 25, 1989
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Jun 01, 2004
Trumbo
Oct 27, 2015
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
Feb 15, 2014
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Sep 17, 1993
Woman in Gold
Mar 20, 2015
Fast X
May 17, 2023
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Jun 15, 2005
When the Whales Came
Mar 28, 1989
Eye in the Sky
Sep 07, 2015
Arabia 3D
Feb 12, 2010
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
Apr 04, 2006
The Little Minister
Nov 02, 1975
Mrs. Reinhardt
Oct 30, 1981
The Philanthropist
Oct 28, 1975
Unity
Aug 12, 2015
Hamlet
Jan 01, 1976
Barbie
Jun 18, 2023
The Thursday Murder Club
Aug 22, 2025
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
Oct 22, 2022
Collateral Beauty
Dec 15, 2016
Long Night's Journey Into Day
Jan 29, 2000
Blue Remembered Hills
Jan 30, 1979
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Jun 25, 2009
The Country Wife
Feb 13, 1977
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Jun 11, 2023
Electric Blue Special: Nude Celebrity Special
Jan 01, 1984
Coming Through
Dec 27, 1985
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Apr 23, 2016
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Nov 08, 2015
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Jul 23, 2017
The Fate of the Furious
Apr 12, 2017
Winchester
Feb 02, 2018
Red Hot Shot
Mar 31, 1970
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Oct 26, 2018
Soft Targets
Oct 19, 1982
As You Like It
Dec 17, 1978
The Leisure Seeker
Jan 03, 2018
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Feb 04, 1984
Anna
Jun 19, 2019
The Pulitzer At 100
Jul 21, 2017
Cries from Syria
Jan 22, 2017
The Little Mermaid
Apr 06, 1987
The Good Liar
Nov 08, 2019
The Empty Space
Jan 01, 1975
The One and Only Ivan
Aug 21, 2020
Invocation: Maya Deren
Apr 24, 1986
Children of God
Jul 27, 1994
Cymbeline
Dec 20, 1982
An Accidental Studio
Jul 12, 2019
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
Oct 18, 2019
F9
May 19, 2021
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Aug 01, 2019
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
Apr 06, 2011
The Duke
Jul 23, 2021
Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans
Jan 14, 2020
A Coffin for the Bride
May 31, 1974
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Mar 11, 2006
Escape from Extinction
Sep 17, 2021
Istintobrass
Aug 30, 2013
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Oct 27, 2020
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
Aug 29, 2006
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Jun 18, 2002
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mar 15, 2023
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Dec 20, 2013
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Sep 14, 1999
On Broadway
Oct 12, 2019
Duse, the Greatest
Feb 03, 2025
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Jul 01, 1973
Goodbye June
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Jan 06, 2009
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Jan 01, 1984
Woman in Gold
Nov 18, 2015
DC Fandome 2021
Oct 16, 2021
Top Gear
Oct 20, 2002
This Morning
Oct 03, 1988
Third Watch
Sep 23, 1999
The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Nov 02, 2001
Today
Jan 14, 1952
The Twilight Zone
Sep 27, 1985
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Prime Suspect
Apr 07, 1991
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
Apr 07, 2001
American Idol
Jun 11, 2002
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Solos
May 21, 2021
Elizabeth I
Sep 29, 2005
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
The Frank Skinner Show
Sep 10, 1995
The Hidden Room
Jul 23, 1991
When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren
Jun 24, 2021
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sep 03, 2011
The Masked Singer
Jan 02, 2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Dec 03, 1978
GMTV
Jan 01, 1993
Live from Studio Five
Sep 14, 2009
Thriller
Apr 14, 1973
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Jan 13, 2002
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
Nov 28, 2021
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
Laurence Olivier Presents
Dec 05, 1976
Frasier
Sep 16, 1993
An Audience with...
Jan 08, 1978
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sep 04, 2022
Reading Rainbow
Jun 06, 1983
All the Queen's Horses with Alan Titchmarsh
Jul 19, 2009
Human Resources
Mar 18, 2022
1923
Dec 18, 2022
Secrets of the Museum
Feb 06, 2020
Cousin Bette
Aug 07, 1971
Faerie Tale Theatre
Sep 11, 1982
Catherine the Great
Oct 03, 2019
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Painted Lady
Dec 07, 1997
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Documentary Now!
Aug 20, 2015
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Feb 03, 1984
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Glee
May 19, 2009
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
Ruby Wax Meets
Jan 28, 1996
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
French & Saunders
Mar 09, 1987
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Nov 08, 2023
Parkinson
Jan 09, 1998
MobLand
Mar 30, 2025
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Dec 03, 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Dec 03, 1978
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Dec 31, 2023
