Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren is a British actress. Born July 26, 1945, in Hammersmith. Known for The Queen, Prime Suspect and The Passion of Ayn Rand. Educated at Middlesex University and St Bernard's High School and Arts College. Awards include Academy Award for Best Actress, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Theatre World Award.
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- Described as
- British actress (born 1945)
- Other names
- Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova, Helen Lydia Mironoff, Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
- Born
- July 26, 1945 · 10 references
- Born in
- Hammersmith · 1 reference
- Name at birth
- Elena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov · 1 reference
- Citizen of
- United Kingdom; United States (2017–) · 1 reference
- Occupation
- television actor; film actor; voice actor; stage actor; actor · 3 references; filmmaker · 1 reference
- Education
- Middlesex University; St Bernard's High School and Arts College
- Member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Known for
- The Queen · 1 reference; Prime Suspect · 1 reference; The Passion of Ayn Rand · 1 reference; Elizabeth I · 1 reference; Cal · 1 reference; The Madness of King George · 1 reference
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress (2007) · 1 reference; Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003) · 1 reference; Theatre World Award (1995) · 1 reference; Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (2015) · 1 reference; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (2007) · 1 reference; BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (2007) · 1 reference; Volpi Cup for Best Actress (2006) · 1 reference; European Film Award for Best Actress (2007) · 1 reference; European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2012) · 1 reference; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (4 times) (1996, 1999, 2006, 2007) · 1 reference; star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 1 reference; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play; British Academy Television Award for Best Actress (1992); Britannia Awards (2004)
- Field
- principal photography · 1 reference
- Spouse
- Taylor Hackford (1997–) · 2 references
- Father
- Basil Mirren · 1 reference
- Mother
- Kitty Rogers · 1 reference
- Nickname
- Dame Helen Mirren
- Website
- http://www.helenmirren.com/
- Wikipedias with a page
- 103
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1385183559
Dame Helen Mirren (; born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Mirren started her career as a performer with the National Youth Theatre, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1965). She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her West End stage debut in 1975. She went on to receive the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for playing Elizabeth II in the Peter Morgan play The Audience (2013). She reprised the role on Broadway and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was Tony-nominated for A Month in the Country (1995) and The Dance of Death (2002).
Mirren's first credited film role was in Herostratus (1967) and her first major role was in Age of Consent (1969). She gained further recognition for her roles in O Lucky Man! (1973), Caligula (1979), The Long Good Friday (1980), Excalibur (1981), The Mosquito Coast (1986), and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989). Mirren has received four Academy Award nominations for her performances in The Madness of King George (1994) Gosford Park (2001), The Last Station (2009), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006). She went on to appear in further films such as The Tempest (2010), Hitchcock (2012), Eye in the Sky (2015), and Trumbo (2015). She has also appeared in the action film Red (2010) and its 2013 sequel, as well as four films in the Fast & Furious franchise.
On television, Mirren played DCI Jane Tennison in ITV's police procedural Prime Suspect (1991–2006), for which she earned three British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress and two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She also earned Emmy Awards for portraying Ayn Rand in the Showtime television film The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) and Queen Elizabeth I in the HBO miniseries Elizabeth I (2005). Her other television roles include Door to Door (2002), Phil Spector (2013), Catherine the Great (2019), 1923 (2022–2025), and MobLand (2025–present).
- Born, in its opening lines
- July 26, 1945
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