Acting
Helen Mirren
EN, IT, FR cinema · 164 credits
Born
26 July 1945 (age 81)
Birthplace
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Also known as Helen Lydia Mironoff · Helen Lydia Mirren · Dame Helen Mirren · Ilyena Vasilievna Mironova · Ilyena Lydia Mironoff
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.
Known for
Filmography
Sniff
Sniff
as The Spider
A Talent for Murder
as Patricia Highsmith
The Thursday Murder Club
as Elizabeth
Goodbye June
as June
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
Golda
as Golda Meir
White Bird
as Grandmére
Fast X
as Queenie
Barbie
as Narrator (voice)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
as Hespera
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
as Self (archive)
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
as Therapist (voice)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
F9
as Queenie Shaw
The Duke
as Dorothy Bunton
Escape from Extinction
as Narrator (voice)
The One and Only Ivan
as Snickers (voice)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
Berlin, I Love You
as Margaret
Anna
as Olga
The Good Liar
as Betty McLeish
An Accidental Studio
as Self (archive footage)
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
as Narrator
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Queenie Shaw
On Broadway
as Self
Winchester
as Sarah Winchester
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Mother Ginger
The Leisure Seeker
as Ella Spencer
The Fate of the Furious
as Queenie (uncredited)
Cries from Syria
as Narrator
Collateral Beauty
as Brigitte
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
Trumbo
as Hedda Hopper
Woman in Gold
as Maria Altmann
Eye in the Sky
as Colonel Katherine Powell
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
The Hundred-Foot Journey
as Madam Mallory
Monsters University
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
RED 2
as Victoria
Phil Spector
as Linda Kenney Baden
National Theatre Live: The Audience
as The Queen
Istintobrass
as Self
The Door
as Emerenc Szeredás
Hitchcock
as Alma Reville
Radioman
as Self
Arthur
as Hobson
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Nyra (voice)
The Tempest
as Prospera
RED
as Victoria
Love Ranch
as Grace Bontempo
The Debt
as Rachel Singer
Arabia 3D
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Station
as Sofya Tolstoya
State of Play
as Cameron Lynne
Yes Madam, Sir
2009
Yes Madam, Sir
as Narrator
The Jazz Baroness
as Nica - Narrator
Inkheart
as Elinor
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Emily Appleton
The Queen
as The Queen
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Deep Thought (voice)
Shadowboxer
as Rose
The Clearing
as Eileen Hayes
Raising Helen
as Dominique Courier
Pride
as Macheeba (voice)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Narrator (voice)
Calendar Girls
as Chris Harper
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Karen Stone
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
No Such Thing
as The Boss
Door to Door
as Mrs. Porter
Brook by Brook
as Self
Gosford Park
as Mrs. Wilson
The Pledge
as Doctor
Greenfingers
as Georgina Woodhouse
Last Orders
as Amy
On the Edge
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited), Director
Long Night's Journey into Day
as Narrator
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
as Mrs. Tingle
The Passion of Ayn Rand
as Ayn Rand
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
The Prince of Egypt
as Queen (voice)
Critical Care
as Stella
Some Mother's Son
as Kathleen Quigley, Associate Producer
Losing Chase
as Chase Phillips
The Snow Queen
as The Snow Queen
The Madness of King George
as Queen Charlotte
Prince of Jutland
as Geruth
Children of God
as Narrator
The Hawk
as Annie Marsh
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Frances Penny Bethune
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Lilia Herriton
The Comfort of Strangers
as Caroline
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Georgina Spica
When the Whales Came
as Clemmie Jenkins
Pascali's Island
as Lydia Neuman
Cause Célèbre
as Alma Rattenbury
The Little Mermaid
as Princess Emilia
The Mosquito Coast
as Mother Fox
Heavenly Pursuits
as Ruth Chancellor
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Narrator
White Nights
as Galina Ivanova
Coming Through
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
2010
as Tanya Kirbuk
Cal
as Marcella
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
Cymbeline
as Imogen
Soft Targets
as Celia
Excalibur
as Morgana
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
as Self / Caesonia
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
Mrs. Reinhardt
as Mrs. Reinhardt
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Alice Rage
The Long Good Friday
as Victoria
Hussy
as Beaty Simons
S.O.S. Titanic
as May Sloan, Stewardess
Caligula
as Caesonia
Blue Remembered Hills
as Angela
As You Like It
as Rosalind
The Country Wife
as Margery Pinchwife
The Collection
as Stella
Hamlet
as Ophelia / Gertrude
Caesar and Claretta
as Claretta Petacci
The Little Minister
as Babbie
The Empty Space
as Self
The Changeling
as Beatrice-Joanna
A Coffin for the Bride
as Stella McKenzie
O Lucky Man!
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
Savage Messiah
as Gosh Boyle
Miss Julie
as Miss Julie
Age of Consent
as Cora Ryan
Herostratus
as Advert Woman