Helen Mirren
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 26, 1945
- Birthplace
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
- Sniff
Sniff TBA
as The Spider
A Talent for Murder 2026
as Patricia Highsmith
Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion 2026
Actor
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century 2026
as Self
Goodbye June 2025
as June
This Ordinary Thing 2025
as Self (voice)
The Thursday Murder Club 2025
as Elizabeth
Duse, the Greatest 2025
Actor
White Bird 2023
as Grandmére
Golda 2023
as Golda Meir
Barbie 2023
as Narrator (voice)
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short 2023
as Self
Fast X 2023
as Queenie
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses 2023
as Self (archive)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023
as Hespera
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour 2022
as Therapist (voice)
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth 2021
as Self
Escape from Extinction 2021
as Narrator (voice)
Parkinson at 50 2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Duke 2021
as Dorothy Bunton
F9 2021
as Queenie Shaw
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2021
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine 2020
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
The One and Only Ivan 2020
as Snickers (voice)
- Turtle Journey
Turtle Journey 2020
as Grandmother Turtle (voice)
Berlin, I Love You 2019
as Margaret
The Good Liar 2019
as Betty McLeish
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories 2019
as Narrator
On Broadway 2019
as Self
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw 2019
as Queenie Shaw
An Accidental Studio 2019
as Self (archive footage)
Anna 2019
as Olga
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 2018
as Mother Ginger
Winchester 2018
as Sarah Winchester
The Leisure Seeker 2018
as Ella Spencer
- Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Il était une fois... « The Queen » 2017
as Self
The Pulitzer At 100 2017
as Self
The Fate of the Furious 2017
as Queenie (uncredited)
Cries from Syria 2017
as Narrator
Collateral Beauty 2016
as Brigitte
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC 2016
as Self - Performer
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC 2015
as Self (archive material)
Trumbo 2015
as Hedda Hopper
Eye in the Sky 2015
as Colonel Katherine Powell
Unity 2015
as Narrator (voice)
Woman in Gold 2015
as Maria Altmann
The Hundred-Foot Journey 2014
as Madam Mallory
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story 2014
as Narrator
Excalibur: Behind the Movie 2013
as Self
Istintobrass 2013
as Self
RED 2 2013
as Victoria
Monsters University 2013
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
- Goodbye Granadaland
Goodbye Granadaland 2013
as Self
Phil Spector 2013
as Linda Kenney Baden
National Theatre Live: The Audience 2013
as The Queen
Radioman 2012
as Self
Hitchcock 2012
as Alma Reville
The Door 2012
as Emerenc Szeredás
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts 2011
as Self
Arthur 2011
as Hobson
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren 2011
as Sharon
RED 2010
as Victoria
The Debt 2010
as Rachel Singer
Brighton Rock 2010
as Ida
The Tempest 2010
as Prospera
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 2010
as Nyra (voice)
Love Ranch 2010
as Grace Bontempo
Arabia 3D 2010
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Station 2009
as Sofya Tolstoya
- Yes Madam, Sir
Yes Madam, Sir 2009
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Phèdre 2009
as Phèdre
The Jazz Baroness 2009
as Nica - Narrator
State of Play 2009
as Cameron Lynne
Behind The Scenes of Caligula 2009
Actor
Inkheart 2008
as Elinor
National Treasure: Book of Secrets 2007
as Emily Appleton
- The Making of 'The Queen'
The Making of 'The Queen' 2007
as Self
The Queen 2006
as The Queen
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights' 2006
as Self
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday 2006
as Herself
Best Ever Muppet Moments 2006
as Self
Shadowboxer 2005
as Rose
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula 2005
as Tiberia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005
as Deep Thought (voice)
The Clearing 2004
as Eileen Hayes
Pride 2004
as Macheeba (voice)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart 2004
as Narrator (voice)
Raising Helen 2004
as Dominique Courier
Calendar Girls 2003
as Chris Harper
Celebrity Naked Ambition 2003
as Self (archive footage)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 2003
as Karen Stone
Door to Door 2002
as Mrs. Porter
The Making of Gosford Park 2002
as Self
No Such Thing 2002
as The Boss
- Robert Altman in England
Robert Altman in England 2002
as Self
Brook by Brook 2002
as Self
Gosford Park 2001
as Mrs. Wilson
Last Orders 2001
as Amy
Greenfingers 2001
as Georgina Woodhouse
On the Edge 2001
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited), Director
The Pledge 2001
as Doctor
Long Night's Journey into Day 2000
as Narrator
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen 1999
as Self (archive footage)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle 1999
as Mrs. Tingle
The Passion of Ayn Rand 1999
as Ayn Rand
The Prince of Egypt 1998
as Queen (voice)
Critical Care 1997
as Stella
Losing Chase 1996
as Chase Phillips
Some Mother's Son 1996
as Kathleen Quigley, Associate Producer
The Snow Queen 1995
as The Snow Queen
The Madness of King George 1994
as Queen Charlotte
Children of God 1994
as Narrator
Prince of Jutland 1994
as Geruth
The Hawk 1993
as Annie Marsh
Bethune: The Making of a Hero 1993
as Frances Penny Bethune
A Friend in New Orleans 1992
as Herself
Where Angels Fear to Tread 1991
as Lilia Herriton
The Comfort of Strangers 1990
as Caroline
Red King, White Knight 1989
as Anna
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
as Georgina Spica
When the Whales Came 1989
as Clemmie Jenkins
Pascali's Island 1988
as Lydia Neuman
Cause Célèbre 1987
as Alma Rattenbury
The Little Mermaid 1987
as Princess Emilia
The Mosquito Coast 1986
as Mother Fox
Heavenly Pursuits 1986
as Ruth Chancellor
Invocation: Maya Deren 1986
as Narrator
Coming Through 1985
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
White Nights 1985
as Galina Ivanova
2010 1984
as Tanya Kirbuk
Cal 1984
as Marcella
An Audience with Mel Brooks 1984
as Self (uncredited)
2010 : The Odyssey Continues 1984
as Herself
Cymbeline 1983
as Imogen
Soft Targets 1982
as Celia
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1981
as Titania
Mrs. Reinhardt 1981
as Mrs. Reinhardt
Excalibur 1981
as Morgana
The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie 1981
as Self
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' 1981
as Self / Caesonia
The Long Good Friday 1980
as Victoria
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu 1980
as Alice Rage
Hussy 1980
as Beaty Simons
S.O.S. Titanic 1980
as May Sloan, Stewardess
Caligula 1979
as Caesonia
Blue Remembered Hills 1979
as Angela
As You Like It 1978
as Rosalind
The Country Wife 1977
as Margery Pinchwife
Hamlet 1976
as Ophelia / Gertrude
The Collection 1976
as Stella
The Little Minister 1975
as Babbie
- The Philanthropist
The Philanthropist 1975
as Celia
Caesar and Claretta 1975
as Claretta Petacci
- The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart 1975
Actor
The Empty Space 1975
as Self
A Coffin for the Bride 1974
as Stella McKenzie
The Changeling 1974
as Beatrice-Joanna
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment 1973
as Herself
O Lucky Man! 1973
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
Miss Julie 1972
as Miss Julie
Savage Messiah 1972
as Gosh Boyle
Red Hot Shot 1970
Actor
Age of Consent 1969
as Cora Ryan
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1968
as Hermia
Herostratus 1967
as Advert Woman
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