Helen Mirren
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 26, 1945 (age 81)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Sniff
Movie · as The Spider
A Talent for Murder
Movie · as Patricia Highsmith
Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
Movie
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
Movie · as Self
The Thursday Murder Club
Movie · as Elizabeth
Duse, the Greatest
Movie
Goodbye June
Movie · as June
This Ordinary Thing
Movie · as Self (voice)
MobLand
TV · as Maeve Harrigan · 20 eps
Golda
Movie · as Golda Meir
White Bird
Movie · as Grandmére
Fast X
Movie · as Queenie
Barbie
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Movie · as Self
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Movie · as Hespera
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
Movie · as Self (archive)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
Movie · as Therapist (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV · as Self – Actor · 1 ep
Human Resources
TV · as Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice) · 1 ep
1923
TV · as Cara Dutton · 15 eps
Remembers…
TV · as Self · 2 eps
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
Movie · as Self
Parkinson at 50
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
F9
Movie · as Queenie Shaw
The Duke
Movie · as Dorothy Bunton
Escape from Extinction
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Solos
TV · as Peg · 1 ep
When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 10 eps
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
TV · as Self - Host · 4 eps
The One and Only Ivan
Movie · as Snickers (voice)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Movie · as Lip-sync Billy Bush
Turtle Journey
Movie · as Grandmother Turtle (voice)
Secrets of the Museum
TV · as Queen Elizabeth (archive) · 1 ep
Berlin, I Love You
Movie · as Margaret
Anna
Movie · as Olga
The Good Liar
Movie · as Betty McLeish
An Accidental Studio
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
Movie · as Narrator
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Movie · as Queenie Shaw
On Broadway
Movie · as Self
The Masked Singer
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Catherine the Great
TV · as Catherine the Great · 4 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Winchester
Movie · as Sarah Winchester
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie · as Mother Ginger
The Leisure Seeker
Movie · as Ella Spencer
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Movie · as Self
The Fate of the Furious
Movie · as Queenie (uncredited)
The Pulitzer At 100
Movie · as Self
Cries from Syria
Movie · as Narrator
Eye in the Sky
Movie · as Colonel Katherine Powell
Collateral Beauty
Movie · as Brigitte
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie · as Self - Performer
Trumbo
Movie · as Hedda Hopper
Woman in Gold
Movie · as Maria Altmann
Unity
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie · as Self (archive material)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Documentary Now!
TV · as Helen Mirren - Host · 27 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Movie · as Madam Mallory
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
Movie · as Narrator
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV · as Self (voice) · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Monsters University
Movie · as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
Goodbye Granadaland
Movie · as Self
RED 2
Movie · as Victoria
Phil Spector
Movie · as Linda Kenney Baden
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Movie · as The Queen
Istintobrass
Movie · as Self
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Movie · as Self
The Door
Movie · as Emerenc Szeredás
Hitchcock
Movie · as Alma Reville
Radioman
Movie · as Self
Arthur
Movie · as Hobson
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
Movie · as Self
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
Movie · as Sharon
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Movie · as Nyra (voice)
Brighton Rock
Movie · as Ida
The Tempest
Movie · as Prospera
RED
Movie · as Victoria
Love Ranch
Movie · as Grace Bontempo
The Debt
Movie · as Rachel Singer
Arabia 3D
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Last Station
Movie · as Sofya Tolstoya
State of Play
Movie · as Cameron Lynne
Yes Madam, Sir
Movie · as Narrator
The Jazz Baroness
Movie · as Nica - Narrator
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Movie · as Phèdre
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Movie
Live from Studio Five
TV · as Self · 1 ep
All the Queen's Horses with Alan Titchmarsh
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Glee
TV · as Becky's Inner Voice (voice) · 2 eps
Inkheart
Movie · as Elinor
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Movie · as Emily Appleton
The Making of 'The Queen'
Movie · as Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 9 eps
British Film Forever
TV · 1 ep
The Queen
Movie · as The Queen
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
Movie · as Herself
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Movie · as Self
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
Movie · as Self
The One Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie · as Deep Thought (voice)
Shadowboxer
Movie · as Rose
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Movie · as Tiberia
Elizabeth I
TV · as Elizabeth I · 2 eps
The Clearing
Movie · as Eileen Hayes
Raising Helen
Movie · as Dominique Courier
Pride
Movie · as Macheeba (voice)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Parkinson
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Calendar Girls
Movie · as Chris Harper
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Movie · as Karen Stone
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
No Such Thing
Movie · as The Boss
Door to Door
Movie · as Mrs. Porter
Robert Altman in England
Movie · as Self
The Making of Gosford Park
Movie · as Self
Brook by Brook
Movie · as Self
Top Gear
TV · as Self · 1 ep
American Idol
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Live from E!
TV · as Herself · 1 ep
Gosford Park
Movie · as Mrs. Wilson
The Pledge
Movie · as Doctor
Greenfingers
Movie · as Georgina Woodhouse
Last Orders
Movie · as Amy
On the Edge
Movie · as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Long Night's Journey into Day
Movie · as Narrator
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Movie · as Mrs. Tingle
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Movie · as Ayn Rand
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Third Watch
TV · as Annie Foster · 1 ep
The Early Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Prince of Egypt
Movie · as Queen (voice)
Parkinson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Critical Care
Movie · as Stella
The View
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Leute heute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Painted Lady
TV · as Maggie Sheridan · 2 eps
Some Mother's Son
Movie · as Kathleen Quigley
Losing Chase
Movie · as Chase Phillips
Ruby Wax Meets
TV · 1 ep
TFI Friday
TV · 2 eps
The Snow Queen
Movie · as The Snow Queen
The Frank Skinner Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Madness of King George
Movie · as Queen Charlotte
Prince of Jutland
Movie · as Geruth
Children of God
Movie · as Narrator
The Hawk
Movie · as Annie Marsh
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Movie · as Frances Penny Bethune
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
GMTV
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Frasier
TV · as Babette (voice) · 1 ep
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
A Friend in New Orleans
Movie · as Herself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Movie · as Lilia Herriton
Prime Suspect
TV · as Jane Tennison · 15 eps
The Hidden Room
TV · as Sarah · 1 ep
The Comfort of Strangers
Movie · as Caroline
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Movie · as Georgina Spica
Red King, White Knight
Movie · as Anna
When the Whales Came
Movie · as Clemmie Jenkins
Pascali's Island
Movie · as Lydia Neuman
This Morning
TV · as Self · 2 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Cause Célèbre
Movie · as Alma Rattenbury
The Little Mermaid
Movie · as Princess Emilia
French & Saunders
TV · as Herself · 1 ep
The Mosquito Coast
Movie · as Mother Fox
Heavenly Pursuits
Movie · as Ruth Chancellor
Invocation: Maya Deren
Movie · as Narrator
White Nights
Movie · as Galina Ivanova
Coming Through
Movie · as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes") · 1 ep
Screen Two
TV · as Annie Marsh · 1 ep
2010
Movie · as Tanya Kirbuk
Cal
Movie · as Marcella
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Movie · as Herself
Goldene Kamera
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cymbeline
Movie · as Imogen
Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Soft Targets
Movie · as Celia
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as Princess Emilia · 1 ep
Excalibur
Movie · as Morgana
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
Movie · as Self / Caesonia
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie · as Titania
Mrs. Reinhardt
Movie · as Mrs. Reinhardt
The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie
Movie · as Self
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Movie · as Alice Rage
The Long Good Friday
Movie · as Victoria
Hussy
Movie · as Beaty Simons
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie · as May Sloan, Stewardess
Caligula
Movie · as Caesonia
Blue Remembered Hills
Movie · as Angela
As You Like It
Movie · as Rosalind
An Audience with...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV · as Rosalind, Titania, Imogen · 1 ep
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
The Country Wife
Movie · as Margery Pinchwife
The Collection
Movie · as Stella
Hamlet
Movie · as Ophelia / Gertrude
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV · 1 ep
The Apple Cart
Movie
Caesar and Claretta
Movie · as Claretta Petacci
The Little Minister
Movie · as Babbie
The Philanthropist
Movie · as Celia
The Empty Space
Movie · as Self
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited) · 1 ep
Private Affairs
TV · as Claretta Petacci · 1 ep
The Changeling
Movie · as Beatrice-Joanna
A Coffin for the Bride
Movie · as Stella McKenzie
Playhouse
TV · as Mrs. Reinhardt · 1 ep
O Lucky Man!
Movie · as Patricia / Casting Assistant
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Movie · as Herself
Thriller
TV · as Stella McKenzie · 1 ep
Savage Messiah
Movie · as Gosh Boyle
Miss Julie
Movie · as Miss Julie
Great Performances
TV · as Stella · 1 ep
Cousin Bette
TV · as Valérie Marneffe · 5 eps
Film '72
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Red Hot Shot
Movie
Play for Today
TV · as Angela · 1 ep
Age of Consent
Movie · as Cora Ryan
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · as Rachel · 1 ep
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie · as Hermia
Herostratus
Movie · as Advert Woman
Omnibus
TV · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Margery Pinchwife, Beatrice-Joanna, Orinthia, Babbie · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Today
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Winner · 1 ep