| Helen Mirren | |
|---|---|
 Mirren at The Critics' Circle Awards Luncheon in April 2007; by John Reiss |
|
| Born | Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov July 26, 1945 Ilford, Essex, England |
| Years active | 1967-present |
| Spouse(s) | Taylor Hackford (1997-present) |
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English stage, film and television actress. The Critics' Circle is a Professional association of British critics of dance drama film music visual arts and architecture Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Ilford is a district of the London Borough of Redbridge. It is a suburban development situated east north-east of Charing Cross and one the major metropolitan centres Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works She has won an Oscar, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Screen Actors Guild Awards are an annual award given by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG to recognize outstanding performances by members The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner
Contents |
Early life
Family
Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov[1] in a corridor of the maternity wing of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick in West London. Chiswick ( IPA /ˈtʃɪzɪk/ is an area of West London, located west of Charing Cross, which covers the eastern part of the London Borough of Hounslow [2] Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913-1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kathleen (née Rogers; 1909-1980), was English. The Russian people (Русские— Russkie) are an East Slavic Ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English Mirren's paternal grandfather, Pyotr Vassilievich Mironov, a Russian nobleman, tsarist colonel and diplomat, was negotiating an arms deal in Britain and was stranded there, along with his family, during the Russian Revolution. The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya See also Russian Revolution (1905 The Russian Revolution of 1916 refers to a series of popular revolutions in Russia, and the events surrounding them Mirren's great-great-great-great-grandfather was the Russian field-marshal Mikhail Kamensky, one of the heroes of the Napoleonic wars. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending For other meanings see Field Marshal (disambiguation Field marshal is a military officer rank Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (Михаи́л Федо́тович Ка́менский ( May 8, 1738 &ndash August 12, 1809) The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions
Her father called himself Basil and changed the family name to Mirren in the 1950s. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family, The London Philharmonic Orchestra ( LPO) based in London, is one of the major Orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Mirren's mother was from West Ham, London and was the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. West Ham is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in east London, England, located east of Charing Cross. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist". [3]
The first house she remembers living in was in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, when she was two or three years old, after the birth of her younger brother, who was named Peter Basil after his grandfather and great-great-grandfather. Westcliff-on-Sea is a Village and Seaside resort in the south-east of England within the borough and Unitary authority of Southend-on-Sea Mirren was the second of three children, born two years after her older sister Katherine ("Kate").
Mirren once famously remarked of her time in Southend as "relentlessly dull," stating that Southend was at most "the armpit of the country. "
Education
Mirren attended a Catholic girls' school, St. Bernard's High School, in Southend-on-Sea, and subsequently a teaching college, the New College of Speech and Drama in London "housed within Anna Pavlova's old home, Ivy House" on the Hampstead Road. Middlesex University is a University in north London, England, located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex (from which London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (А́нна Па́вловна Па́влова (&ndash 23 January, 1931) was a famous Russian Ballerina of the late At age eighteen, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. The London -based National Youth Theatre or NYT is the United Kingdom 's leading organisation for young people in the field of Theatre. By age 20 she was starring as Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic, which led to her signing with the agent Al Parker. Antony and Cleopatra is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623 The Old Vic is a Theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road.
Theatre
Early years
Following appearances on stage during her school years at St Bernard's High School for Girls in Westcliff-on-Sea, Mirren's first starring role was in 1965 as Cleopatra for the National Youth Theatre. Westcliff-on-Sea is a Village and Seaside resort in the south-east of England within the borough and Unitary authority of Southend-on-Sea Cleopatra VII Philopator (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ; January 69 BC &ndash 30 BC was a Hellenistic ruler of Egypt The London -based National Youth Theatre or NYT is the United Kingdom 's leading organisation for young people in the field of Theatre. This led to her joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Castiza in Trevor Nunn's 1966 staging of The Revenger's Tragedy, Diana in All's Well That Ends Well in 1967, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida and Phebe in As You Like It in 1968, Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1970 and the title role in Miss Julie at The Other Place in 1971. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company This article is about the play For the film see Revengers Tragedy. All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a Comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602 As You Like It is a Pastoral Comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published See also Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a Comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his This article is about the play by Strindberg for other works see Miss Julie (disambiguation. The Other Place is a Black box theatre on Southern Lane near to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
In 1972-73 Mirren worked with Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre Research, and joined the group's tour in North Africa and the US which created The Conference of the Birds. Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is a British theatre and Film director and innovator Returning to the RSC she played Lady Macbeth at Stratford in 1974 and at the Aldwych Theatre in 1975. Lady Macbeth is a character in William Shakespeare play Macbeth. "Shakespeare Theatre" redirects here For the theatre of that name in Newcastle see Shakespeare Theatre (Newcastle; for Shakespeare's original theatre see The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster.
Controversy
As reported by Sally Beaumann in her 1982 history of the RSC, Mirren, while appearing in Nunn's Macbeth (1974) and in a highly publicised letter to The Guardian newspaper, attacked both the National Theatre and the RSC for their lavish production expenditure, declaring it "unnecessary and destructive to the art of the Theatre," and adding, "The realms of truth, emotion and imagination reached for in acting a great play have become more and more remote, often totally unreachable across an abyss of costume and technicalities. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. The Royal National Theatre, located on the South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England. . . " But Mirren was only stating publicly what many RSC actors had been saying in private for some years. There were no discernible repercussions for this mild rebuke from the RSC.
West End and RSC
At the Royal Court in September 1975 she notably played rock star Maggie in Teeth 'n' Smiles, a musical play by David Hare, which was revived at Wyndham's Theatre in May 1976 winning her the Plays & Players Best Actress award, voted by the London critics. Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Sir David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English Dramatist and theatre and Film director. Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by the actor/manager Charles Wyndham (cp Criterion Theatre)
From November 1975 Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in The Seagull and Ella in Ben Travers' new farce The Bed Before Yesterday ("Mirren is stirringly voluptuous as the Harlowesque good-time girl": Michael Billington, The Guardian, 10 December 1975). The Seagull ( Russian: "Чайка" ("Chayka" written in 1895 is the first of what are generally considered to be Anton Chekhov's Ben Travers CBE ( 12 November 1886 - 18 December 1980) was a British Playwright most famous for his Farces Michael Keith Billington (born November 16, 1939) is a British Author and arts Critic. Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. At the RSC in Stratford in 1977, and at the Aldwych the following year, she played a steely Queen Margaret in Terry Hands' production of the three parts of Henry VI, while 1979 saw her 'bursting with grace' with an acclaimed performance as Isabella in Peter Gill's otherwise unexceptional production of Measure for Measure at Riverside Studios. Terence David Hands (born 9 January, 1941) is a English Theatre director. Henry VI may refer to Henry VI Holy Roman Emperor (1165–1197 Peter Gill, theatre director playwright and former actor was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 7 September 1939, son of George John Gill and his wife Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 Riverside Studios is one of West London 's leading centres for contemporary and international dramatic performance film exhibitions and television production
In 1981 she returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friel's Faith Healer. Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is a playwright and more recently director of his own works from Northern Ireland who now resides in County Donegal Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy his wife Grace and stage In the same year she also received acclaim for her performance in the title role of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a Royal Exchange Theatre production at the Round House in London. John Webster (c 1580 &ndash c 1634 was an English Jacobean Dramatist, and a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. The Duchess of Malfi is a Macabre, tragic play, written by the English dramatist John Webster and first performed in Royal Exchange Theatre is a producing theatre in St Ann's Square/Exchange Street Manchester, England. ----The Round House ( is the oldest building still standing in Western Australia. Reviewing her portrayal for the Sunday Telegraph, Francis King wrote: "Miss Mirren never leaves it in doubt that even in her absences, this ardent, beautiful woman is the most important character of the story. The Sunday Telegraph is a British Broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961 Francis Henry King (born 1923 is a British Novelist and Short story writer and a poet "
Her performance as Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in January 1983, and at the Barbican Theatre April 1983), "swaggered through the action with radiant singularity of purpose, filling in areas of light and shade that even Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker omitted. Mary Frith or Moll Cutpurse (c 1584 &ndash July 26, 1659) was a notorious Pickpocket and fence of the English The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage play a Comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker ca "Shakespeare Theatre" redirects here For the theatre of that name in Newcastle see Shakespeare Theatre (Newcastle; for Shakespeare's original theatre see Barbican Centre is the largest Performing arts centre in Europe Thomas Middleton (1580 &ndash 1627 was an English Jacobean playwright and Poet. Thomas Dekker is the name of Thomas Dekker (writer (1572&ndash1632 Elizabethan poet and dramatist Thomas Dekker (actor (born 1987 " - Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983. Michael Coveney is a British theatre critic born in Mile End in East London in 1948 The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper.
After a relatively barren sojourn in the Hollywood Hills, she returned to England at the beginning of 1989 to co-star with Bob Peck at the Young Vic in the London premiere of the Arthur Miller double-bill, Two Way Mirror, performances which prompted Miller to remark: "What is so good about English actors is that they are not afraid of the open expression of large emotions" (interview by Sheridan Morley: The Times 11 January 1989). Bob Peck ( 23 August 1945 – 4 April 1999) was an English stage, Television, and Film Actor The Young Vic is a Theatre in The Cut, located near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth. Arthur Asher Miller (October 17 1915 &ndash February 10 2005 was an American Playwright and Essayist. Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941 − 16 February 2007 was an English author biographer critic director actor and broadcaster The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) In Elegy for a Lady she played the svelte proprietress of a classy boutique, while as the blonde hooker in Some Kind of Love Story she was "clad in a Freudian slip and shifting easily from waif-like vulnerability to sexual aggression, giving the role a breathy Monroesque quality" (Michael Billington, The Guardian).
Stage career breakthrough
A stage career breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, Surrey is a Theatre presenting in-house Productions which often tour and transfer into the West William Campbell Rough Bryden CBE (born 12 April 1942, Greenock, Scotland) is a British stage- and film director and Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈgʲeɪvʲɪtɕ turˈgʲenʲɪf ( &ndash) was a Russian novelist and playwright For the play of the same name by Ivan Turgenev see A Month in the Country (play. Her co-stars were John Hurt as her aimless lover Rakitin and Ralph Fiennes in only his second professional stage appearance as the cocksure young tutor Belyaev. John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940 is an English Actor. Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( "rafe fines" born 22 December 1962) is a British Actor. "Instead of a bored Natalya fretting the summer away in dull frocks, Mirren, dazzlingly gowned, is a woman almost willfully allowing her heart's desire for her son's young tutor to rule her head and wreak domestic havoc. . . . Creamy shoulders bared, she feels free to launch into a gloriously enchanted, dreamily comic self-confession of love. " (John Thaxter, Richmond & Twickenham Times, 4 March 1994). Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)
Mirren was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1995 for A Month in the Country, now directed by Scott Ellis ("Miss Mirren's performance is bigger and more animated than the one she gave last year in an entirely different London production", Vincent Canby in the NY Times, April 26, 1995). The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American Theatre and are presented For the play of the same name by Ivan Turgenev see A Month in the Country (play. Scott Ellis ( 19 April[[ 957]] Washington DC) is an American Stage director and Television director. Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Then again in 2002 for August Strindberg's Dance of Death, co-starring with Ian McKellen, their fraught rehearsal period coinciding with New York's '9/11' (2001, as recorded in her In the Frame autobiography, September 2007). ( January 22, 1849 &ndash May 14, 1912) was a Swedish Writer, Playwright, and painter. The Dance of Death ( Dödsdansen) is a play in two parts written by August Strindberg in 1900 Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939 is an English stage and screen actor the
National Theatre
Mirren had an unhappy experience at the National Theatre in 1998 when she played Cleopatra to Alan Rickman's Antony. Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946 is a Tony Award - nominated English Film, Television and stage actor But in 2000 Nicholas Hytner, who had worked with Mirren on the film version of The Madness of King George, cast her as Lady Torrance in his revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Nicholas Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English producer and director This article is about the 1994 film For the play by Alan Bennett see The Madness of George III (play and for a 2004 political satire see The Madness of King George Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26 1911 &ndash February 25 1983 better known as Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright who received many of the top theatrical Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams. It was first presented on Broadway in 1957 where it enjoyed a brief run with only modest Donmar Warehouse is a small not for profit Theatre in the Covent Garden area of the London Borough of Camden, with seating for 250 playgoers Michael Billington, reviewing for The Guardian, described her performance as "an exemplary study of an immigrant woman who has acquired a patina of resilient toughness but who slowly acknowledges her sensuality. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. "
At the National Theatre in November 2003 she again won praise playing Christine Mannon ("defiantly cool, camp and skittish", Evening Standard; "glows with mature sexual allure", Daily Telegraph) in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra directed by Howard Davies. The London Evening Standard is an English Tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16 1888–November 27 1953 was a Nobel -prize winning American playwright Mourning Becomes Electra is the title for a trilogy of plays by Eugene O'Neill, first performed in 1931
“This production was one of the best experiences of my professional life, The play was four and a half hours long, and I have never known that kind of response from an audience. . . It was the serendipity of a beautifully cast play, with great design and direction, It will be hard to be in anything better. ” (In the Frame, September 2007).
Film
Mirren has made numerous appearances in an array of films. Some of her earlier film appearances include O Lucky Man!, Caligula, Excalibur, 2010, The Long Good Friday, White Nights, and The Mosquito Coast. O Lucky Man! ( 1973) is a surreal British Film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society Caligula is a 1979 Film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse Excalibur is a 1981 Fantasy film which retells the legend of King Arthur. 2010 is a Science fiction film released in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams. The Long Good Friday is a British Gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. White Nights is a 1985 film starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and The article is about the novel and film For the Central American area see Mosquito Coast. After those appearances she received roles in Belfast-born director Terry George's film Some Mother's Son, which was about the 1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland, opposite Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan, Painted Lady, The Prince of Egypt and The Madness of King George. Terry George (born December 20, 1952) is an Irish screenwriter and director. Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan and based on the true The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. Painted Lady was a 1997 Murder mystery mini series starring Helen Mirren, involving Art theft. The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American Animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks This article is about the 1994 film For the play by Alan Bennett see The Madness of George III (play and for a 2004 political satire see The Madness of King George One of Mirren's other film roles was in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, as the eponymous thief's wife, opposite Michael Gambon. Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is an English Film director born in Wales. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (punctuated onscreen as The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) is a Film written and directed by Peter
Mirren continued her successful film career when she starred more recently in Gosford Park with Maggie Smith and Calendar Girls where she starred with Julie Walters. Gosford Park is a 2001 film directed by Robert Altman. The Screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born December 28 1934) better known as Maggie Smith, is a British Film, stage Calendar Girls is a 2003 British Comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. Julie Walters, CBE (born 22 February 1950 is an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe - and BAFTA -award winning English Other more recent appearances include The Clearing, Pride, Raising Helen, and Shadowboxer. The Clearing is a 2004 drama / Thriller film, and is a directorial debut by Pieter Jan Brugge, an Academy Award This article is about the movie Pride for other meanings see Pride (disambiguation. Raising Helen is a 2004 American comedy / Drama film directed by Garry Marshall and written by Jack Amiel Shadowboxer is a 2005 thriller directed by Lee Daniels that stars Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr Mirren also provided the voice for the supercomputer "Deep Thought" in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. During her career, she has portrayed three British queens in different films and television series. These include Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I (2005), Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (2006), and Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, in The Madness of King George (1994). Elizabeth I is a 2005 British Television Miniseries directed by Tom Hooper. For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II The Queen Drama film directed by Stephen Frears, Peter Morgan and starring Dame Helen Mirren in the title role Queen Queen Charlotte, (née Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was the George III (George William Frederick 4 June 1738 George III's long reign was marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdom much of the rest of Europe and places This article is about the 1994 film For the play by Alan Bennett see The Madness of George III (play and for a 2004 political satire see The Madness of King George Her role in The Queen gained her numerous awards including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. During her acceptance speech at the Academy Award ceremony, Mirren praised and thanked Elizabeth II and stated that she had maintained her dignity and weathered many storms during her reign as Queen. [4]
Mirren has frequently appeared nude on film as far back as her first film Age of Consent, and was over 50 when she appeared nude in the film Calendar Girls and on the cover of the Radio Times October 5-11 issue in 1996. Age of Consent ( is an Australian film which was the penultimate feature film directed by British director Michael Powell. For the US radio series see WHYY-FM. Radio Times is the BBC 's weekly Television and Radio programme
Television
Mirren is most often recognized for her role as detective Jane Tennison in the well-known Prime Suspect, a television drama that ran for seven series. Prime Suspect is a British Police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. The role won her three consecutive BAFTA awards for Best Actress between 1992 to 1994. Other acclaimed television performances include Cousin Bette (1971), As You Like It (1979), Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Losing Chase (1996), The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) where her performance won her both the Emmy and the Golden Globe, Door to Door (2002), and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Blue Remembered Hills is a Television play by Dennis Potter, originally broadcast on January 30th 1979 as part of the BBC 's Play The Passion of Ayn Rand is a 1999 Film directed by Christopher Menaul. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner Door to Door was a 2002 TV movie about Bill Porter (played by William H Stone (2003). In 1976 Mirren appeared opposite Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates and Malcolm McDowell in the episode The Collection of the Granada television series Laurence Olivier Presents. Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003 was a British Actor. Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943 is an English Actor. The Collection is a 1961 play by Harold Pinter. The play is a four-hander showing two couples James and Stella and Harry and Bill Laurence Olivier Presents was a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978 She also played Elizabeth I in 2005, in the television series Elizabeth I, for Channel 4 and HBO, where she received an Emmy for her performance. Elizabeth I is a 2005 British Television Miniseries directed by Tom Hooper. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Mirren won another Emmy on September 16, 2007 for her role in Prime Suspect: The Final Act on PBS in the same category as in 2006. Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Prime Suspect is a British Police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s
Awards and recognition
Film awards
In 1984, Mirren won Best Actress for her role in the film Cal at the Cannes Film Festival and the 1985 Evening Standard British Film Awards. Cal is a 1984 film based on the novela Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The London Evening Standard is an English Tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast In 1994 and 2001, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her roles in The Madness of King George and Gosford Park, respectively. In 1995, she had also been awarded for Best Actress once again in Cannes for playing Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, Queen Charlotte, (née Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was the In 2002, she received the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Gosford Park. Mirren is the first female actress to be nominated for three acting performances at the Golden Globe Awards in the same year. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner She won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in the movie drama category for Stephen Frears' The Queen in 2006 (along with two nominations in the Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie category for Elizabeth I, and Prime Suspect: Final Act). Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is a two-time Oscar -nominated English film director The Queen Drama film directed by Stephen Frears, Peter Morgan and starring Dame Helen Mirren in the title role Queen She won both Golden Globes for The Queen and Elizabeth I and also won two SAG awards the same year for the same roles. Mirren is the third actor to win two Golden Globes in the same year, and the first ever to win for both leading roles in TV and film in the same year. She is one of only three actresses (the first was Liza Minnelli in 1973 and then decades later Helen Hunt) to win a Golden Globe, an Oscar and an Emmy for performances given in the same year. Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American Emmy - Golden Globe - and Academy Award -winning actress
Along with the Golden Globe, Mirren's acclaimed performance in The Queen won her the 2007 Academy Award for Best Actress. Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to [5] She also received Best Actress awards from the Venice Film Festival, Broadcast Film Critics, National Board of Review, Satellite Awards, Screen Actors Guild and a BAFTA, as well as critics awards from all over the world. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world Entertainment Weekly recently ranked her Number 2 for Entertainer of the Year for 2006 and also won the award for best actress in film at the new Greatest Britons Awards for her role in The Queen. Greatest Britons is an awards show on ITV, celebrating the best of British talent In 2007 Mirren became an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin. The University Philosophical Society, commonly known as The Phil, is a student paper-reading and debating society in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Trinity College Dublin ( TCD; Irish Coláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath; Latin: Collegium Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae
Academy Award Nominations
- Best Actress
- 2006 - The Queen
- Best Supporting Actress
- 1994 - The Madness of King George
- 2001 - Gosford Park
Television awards
Mirren won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Mini-series or TV Movie in 1997 for her role in Losing Chase. The Queen Drama film directed by Stephen Frears, Peter Morgan and starring Dame Helen Mirren in the title role Queen This article is about the 1994 film For the play by Alan Bennett see The Madness of George III (play and for a 2004 political satire see The Madness of King George Gosford Park is a 2001 film directed by Robert Altman. The Screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer She received two nominations in the Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie category for Elizabeth I, and Prime Suspect: The Final Act, where she only won the Golden Globe for her title role performance in Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I is a 2005 British Television Miniseries directed by Tom Hooper. In that same year she won an SAG award for that same role. Mirren also won an Emmy for her role in Elizabeth I in category Lead Actress in a Mini-Series or a Movie in 2006. She had previously won an Emmy twice before, in that same category, in 1996 for her role in Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness and in 1999 for The Passion of Ayn Rand. [6]
At the end of a triumphant year of awards for her acclaimed movie performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, Dame Helen also collected a 2007 Emmy Television award as Best Actress in a Mini-Series for her performance as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect: The Final Act. She now has four Emmy awards. This seventh and apparently concluding instalment of the Prime Suspect saga portrayed Tennison as an alcoholic destined for retirement, and was screened in the US on the public service network PBS.
Emmy Nominations
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
- 1994 - Prime Suspect 2
- 1995 - Prime Suspect 3
- 1996 - Prime Suspect 4: "Scent of Darkness"
- 1997 - Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment
- 1999 - The Passion of Ayn Rand
- 2003 - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- 2004 - Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness
- 2006 - Elizabeth I
- 2007 - Prime Suspect: The Final Act
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
- 2003 - Door to Door
Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts
Each year since 1988 The Critics' Circle has presented an award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, voted for by all members of the Circle, embracing Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts and Architecture. The Critics' Circle is a Professional association of British critics of dance drama film music visual arts and architecture At a celebratory luncheon on 10 April 2007 in the National Theatre's Terrace Restaurant, the award for 2006 was presented to Dame Helen Mirren. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [7] As David Gritten, chairman of the Film section made clear, the decision to make the award was voted on in November 2006, well in advance of the awards hubbub that surrounded her performance in The Queen. The Queen Drama film directed by Stephen Frears, Peter Morgan and starring Dame Helen Mirren in the title role Queen Accepting the award, an engraved crystal rose bowl, Mirren described it as the most useful she has ever received, while reflecting poignantly that this now "might be the last award I will win in my life. It has been a most incredible year. You do the work and then. . . . . " Previous recipients include Sir Peter Hall (1988), Dame Judi Dench (1997) and Ian McKellen (2003). Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December, 1934) usually known as Judi Dench, is an English Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939 is an English stage and screen actor the
Personal life
Mirren married American director Taylor Hackford whom she met on the set of White Nights (her partner since 1986), in the Scottish Highlands on 31 December 1997, his 53rd birthday. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director. A domestic partnership is a legal or Personal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are neither joined by a traditional Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar It was her first marriage, and his third (he has two children from his previous marriage). Mirren has no children and says she has "no maternal instinct whatsoever. "[8]
On 5 December 2003, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. When she received the honour, Mirren commented that Prince Charles was "very graceful" but forgot to give her half of the award, where another person had to remind him to give Mirren the star. She also stated that she felt wary about accepting the award and had to be persuaded by fellow comrades to accept the DBE. In 1996 she had previously declined a CBE. [9]
Mirren's autobiography was published in the UK by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in September 2007, under the title In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures. Reviewing for The Stage, John Thaxter wrote: "Sumptuously illustrated, at first sight it looks like another of those photo albums of the stars. The Stage is a weekly British Newspaper founded in 1880 available nationally and published on Thursdays But between the pictures there are almost 200 pages of densely printed text, an unusually frank story of her private and professional life, mainly in the theatre, the words clearly Mirren's own, delivered with forthright candour. "[10]
References in pop culture
- The Mars Volta have a song called "Ilyena" that is named after Mirren. The Mars Volta is the name of a partnership between guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala founded in 2001 [11] Mars Volta lyricist/singer Cedric Bixler has stated an affinity for Mirren. Cedric Bixler Zavala (born November 4, 1974 in Redwood City, California) is the lead singer and lyricist of The Mars Volta, and [12]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Herostratus | ||
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hermia | |
| 1969 | Red Hot Shot | ||
| Age of Consent | Cora Ryan | ||
| 1972 | Miss Julie | Miss Julie | |
| Savage Messiah | Gosh Boyle | ||
| 1973 | O Lucky Man! | Patricia | |
| 1976 | Hamlet | Ophelia/Gertrude | |
| 1979 | The Quiz Kid | Joanne | |
| Caligula | Caesonia | ||
| 1980 | Hussy | Beaty | |
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Alice Rage | ||
| The Long Good Friday | Victoria | ||
| 1981 | Excalibur | Morgana | |
| 1984 | Cal | Marcella | |
| 2010: The Year We Make Contact | Tanya Kirbuk | ||
| Faerie Tale Theatre: The Little Mermaid | Amelia | ||
| 1985 | Heavenly Pursuits | Ruth Chancellor | |
| Coming Through | Frieda von Richtofen Weekley | ||
| White Nights | Galina Ivanova | ||
| 1986 | The Mosquito Coast | Mother Fox | |
| 1988 | Pascali's Island | Lydia Neuman | |
| 1989 | When the Whales Came | Clemmie Jenkins | |
| The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Georgina Spica | ||
| 1990 | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Frances Penny Bethune | |
| The Comfort of Strangers | Caroline | ||
| 1991 | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Lilia Herriton | |
| 1993 | The Hawk | Annie Marsh | |
| Royal Deceit | Geruth | ||
| 1994 | The Madness of King George | Queen Charlotte | Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination |
| 1995 | The Snow Queen | Snow Queen | (voice) |
| 1996 | Some Mother's Son | Kathleen Quigley | |
| 1997 | Critical Care | Stella | |
| 1998 | Sidoglio Smithee | ||
| The Prince of Egypt | The Queen | (voice) | |
| 1999 | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand | |
| Teaching Mrs. Tingle | Mrs. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1968 rendition of William Shakespeare 's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall Hermia is a Fictional character from the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Age of Consent ( is an Australian film which was the penultimate feature film directed by British director Michael Powell. Miss Julie is a Film based on the play of the same name by August Strindberg. Savage Messiah is a 1972 Biographical film of the life of French Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, made by Russ-Arts O Lucky Man! ( 1973) is a surreal British Film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601 Caligula is a 1979 Film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse Milonia Caesonia ( PIR2 M 590 (6-41 was a Roman Empress She rose from modest origins to become the fourth and last wife of the Roman Emperor Caligula The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu is a 1980 Comedy film, notable as the final film to star Peter Sellers while he was alive The Long Good Friday is a British Gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Excalibur is a 1981 Fantasy film which retells the legend of King Arthur. Cal is a 1984 film based on the novela Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script 2010 is a Science fiction film released in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams. The Little Mermaid is the 26th episode of the television anthology Faerie Tale Theatre. White Nights is a 1985 film starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and The article is about the novel and film For the Central American area see Mosquito Coast. Pascali's Island is a novel by Barry Unsworth, first published in 1980 When the Whales Came is a 1989 British Film, based on the 1985 children's book Why the Whales Came written by Michael The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (punctuated onscreen as The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) is a Film written and directed by Peter The Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1991 film based on the 1905 Novel Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E The Hawk is a 1993 British film starring Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Rosemary Leach, Owen Teale and This article is about the 1994 film For the play by Alan Bennett see The Madness of George III (play and for a 2004 political satire see The Madness of King George Queen Charlotte, (née Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was the The Snow Queen ( Sneedronningen) is a Fairy tale by Author Hans Christian Andersen ( 1805 - 1875) Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan and based on the true The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American Animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks The Passion of Ayn Rand is a 1999 Film directed by Christopher Menaul. Ayn Rand (ˈaɪn ˈrænd &ndash March 6 1982 born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум was a Russian born American Teaching Mrs Tingle is a 1999 Black comedy Film and the Directorial debut of Screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Eve Tingle | ||
| 2000 | Greenfingers | Georgina Woodhouse | |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Doctor | |
| No Such Thing | The Boss | ||
| Happy Birthday | Distinguished Woman | ||
| Last Orders | Amy | ||
| Gosford Park | Mrs. Greenfingers is a 2000 Film directed by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on a true story about the award-winning prisoners The Pledge is a 2001 dramatic Psychological thriller directed by Sean Penn. No Such Thing is a film that was released in 2001 and was directed by Hal Hartley. Last Orders is a 2001 British / German Drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. Gosford Park is a 2001 film directed by Robert Altman. The Screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Wilson | Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination | |
| 2003 | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Karen Stone | |
| Calendar Girls | Chris Harper | ||
| 2004 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Deep Thought | (voice) |
| The Clearing | Eileen Hayes | ||
| Raising Helen | Dominique | ||
| 2005 | Elizabeth I | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| Shadowboxer | Rose | ||
| 2006 | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II | Best Actress Oscar |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Emily Appleton | |
| 2009 | Inkheart | Elinor Loredan | awaiting release |
| State of Play | Cameron Lynne | post-production | |
| Love Ranch | Grace Botempo | post-production | |
| The Last Station | Sofya Tolstoy | filming |
Further reading
- Command Performance, a profile of Helen Mirren written by John Lahr in The New Yorker magazine, October 2, 2006 [1]
- In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures (autobiography) by Helen Mirren, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007 ISBN 9780297851974. Calendar Girls is a 2003 British Comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. The Clearing is a 2004 drama / Thriller film, and is a directorial debut by Pieter Jan Brugge, an Academy Award Raising Helen is a 2004 American comedy / Drama film directed by Garry Marshall and written by Jack Amiel Elizabeth I is a 2005 British Television Miniseries directed by Tom Hooper. Shadowboxer is a 2005 thriller directed by Lee Daniels that stars Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr The Queen Drama film directed by Stephen Frears, Peter Morgan and starring Dame Helen Mirren in the title role Queen For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II National Treasure 2 Book of Secrets is a 2007 Adventure film and is the second movie in the National Treasure franchise. Inkheart is an upcoming 2009 Fantasy film, directed by Iain Softley. State of Play is an upcoming American Political thriller scheduled for release in 2009. John Lahr' (born July 12, 1941) is an American Theater critic and the son of actor Bert Lahr. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry Events 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
- Rather than writing an autobiography Helen Mirren was commissioned by Alan Samson at Orion Books to write about her life in a series of chapters based on pictures from her extensive personal collection of photography and memorabilia. Edited by Chris Worwood, with whom she worked on the Award-winning HBO series Elizabeth, the book covers every aspect of her life from her aristocratic Russian heritage to her days with Peter Hall's RSC company to her Academy Award for The Queen.
References
- Theatre Record (originally London Theatre Record) and its Indexes for the quoted theatre reviews, credit listings and playbills
- The Best of Plays and Players 1969-1983, selected and edited by Peter Roberts, (Methuen Drama, 1989 ISBN 0413537307)
- The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades by Sally Beauman, (Oxford University Press, 1982 ISBN 0192122096)
- A Dictionary of the RSC by Simon Trowbridge [2]
- ^ Daily Mail. Theatre Record is a periodical that reprints reviews production photographs and other information about the British theatre The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company Sally Beauman (born in Devon in 1944 is a British author best known for her Rebecca sequel Rebecca's Tale. Found: Helen's Russian relatives. Retrieved on October 15, 2006.
- ^ According to her 2007 memoirs "the fastest birth on record at that time. I wonder if anyone has broken it yet?"
- ^ E! Online (entertainment web-site)
- ^ Helen Mirren at the Oscars, news. scotsman. com
- ^ "Dame Helen crowned Queen", The Sun Online. The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language Retrieved on 2007-02-26. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed
- ^ 64th Golden Globe Awards Nominations. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on December 14, 2006.
- ^ Critics' Award for Mirren, British Theatre Guide
- ^ Contact Music accessed 4 March 2007
- ^ Helen Mirren declines CBE, The Times
- ^ Book review: The Stage newspaper, November 1, 2007
- ^ Hyland, David (2008-01-31), CD Review: Mars Volta's 'Bedlam' Brilliantly Assaults Ears, Minds, WBAL-TV, <http://www.wbaltv.com/soundbytes/15169749/detail.html>. The British Theatre Guide is an on-line database of specially commissioned reviews of Theatre productions throughout the United Kingdom, together with theatre-related WBAL-TV, channel 11 is an NBC -affiliated television station in Baltimore Maryland. Retrieved on 6 March 2008
- ^ Miller, Doug (2007-12-30), Six questions with Mars Volta’s Bixler-Zavala, MSNBC, <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22304053/>. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada. Retrieved on 6 March 2008
External links
- Helen Mirren at the Internet Movie Database
- Helen Mirren at the TCM Movie Database
- Helen Mirren at the Internet Broadway Database
- Helen Mirren at the MBC Encyclopedia of Television
- Helen Mirren Biography
- Morley Safer profile of Helen Mirren on CBS' "60 minutes", 7 January 2007
- The Helen Mirren Appreciation Society, Official fan club
- Simon Hattenstone, "Nothing like a dame", (interview) The Guardian (London), 2 September 2006
- Arifa Akbar, "Helen Mirren: The good, the bad and The Queen", (interview), The Independent (London), 27 May 2007
- Stills and comment regarding early films
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirren, Helen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mironov, Ilyena Vasilievna |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945-7-26 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ilford, Essex, England, UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic