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Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren 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 al…
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Born 26 July 1945 · Q349391
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2026· 12 entries
Digital Spy: Cillian Murphy and Helen Mirren's "spectacular" spy thriller is now streaming for free
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Yahoo Life UK: Helen Mirren’s MUA uses 3 universally flattering eyeliner tricks to open hooded eyes
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Yahoo Life Singapore: Helen Mirren, 81, proves this ‘10 years younger’ styling trick is the best way to wear a bixie
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The Guardian: Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup
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Awarded Order of the Companions of Honour (2026).
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The Guardian: Helen Mirren and six Lionesses receive honours for King Charles’s birthday
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Page Six: Helen Mirren sets record straight on Tom Hardy ‘MobLand’ drama as she comments on co-star’s ‘different process’
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The Guardian: Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
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Snopes rated the claim “Helen Mirren said: "I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here."” Correct Attribution.
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Public attention spiked: 43,561 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.1× the usual 5,379, with 27 article edits. Editors noted: Interceptor: Reverting non-constructive edits by ~2026-30706-69
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2025· 4 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “During a December 2025 appearance on live TV, actor Helen Mirren said she would invest $107 million in streaming service Netflix to "tear apart the fog that has hidden the truth for far too long.”” False.
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2025).
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By a pro-Palestinian activist in London circulated on social media
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Mirren co-starred in the Netflix film adaptation of Richard Osman's novel The Thursday Murder Club, and in Kate Winslet's directorial project Goodbye June
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2024· 2 entries
Mirren starred in the war drama White Bird, with Hannah Brown of The Jerusalem Post praising Mirren's performance and crediting her with single-handedly saving the film
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And 2026, Mirren signed open letters by the pro-Israel group Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) expressing support for Israel's inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest
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2022· 1 entry
Received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (presented by Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett) for her career excellence
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2021· 2 entries
Mirren appeared in the ninth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, to mixed reviews
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Mirren was named by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award
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2019· 1 entry
Appeared in the ensemble film Berlin, I Love You, the French crime thriller film Anna, directed and written by Luc Besson, and co-starred in the Fast and the Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw
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2018· 1 entry
Mirren portrayed heiress Sarah Winchester in the supernatural horror film Winchester, directed by The Spierig Brothers
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2017· 1 entry
Mirren narrated Cries from Syria, a documentary film about the Syrian Civil War, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky
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2016· 1 entry
That her connection to Israel goes back to when she volunteered at a kibbutz with her Jewish boyfriend in 1967
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Audience (2015).
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Mirren reunited with her former assistant Simon Curtis on Woman in Gold, co-starring Ryan Reynolds
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for Phil Spector (2014).
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2014).
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Radio Times quoted Mirren as saying, "I'm a naturist at heart
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for The Audience (2013).
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The BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, the Chaplin Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2018, the Honorary Golden Bear in 2020, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Ach
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Mirren voiced the character of Dean Abigail Hardscrabble in Pixar's animated comedy film Monsters University, which grossed $743 million against its estimated budget of $200 million, and reprised her role in the sequel f
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2012).
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Mirren played Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the 2012 biopic Hitchcock based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
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Was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt
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2011· 1 entry
Posed in a photo shoot for Esquire covered only with the Union Jack
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2010· 2 entries
Mirren appeared in five films
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The actor lent her voice to Zack Snyder's animated fantasy film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, voicing antagonist Nyra, a leader of a group of owls
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2009· 2 entries
For the filming of some of the movie's scenes
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In a production directed by Nicholas Hytner
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2007· 9 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Prime Suspect (2007).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Queen (2007).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Queen (2007).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Queen (2007).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for The Queen (2007).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Elizabeth I (2007).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for The Queen (2007).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for Elizabeth I (2007).
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Mirren said that the director Michael Winner had treated her "like a piece of meat" at a casting call in 1964
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2006· 5 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Elizabeth I (2006).
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for The Queen (2006).
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Mirren came 29th on ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars voted by the British public
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The British public ranked her number 29 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars
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Mirren stated that she was never a member of any political party, but had wanted to see the defeat of the Conservative Party at the 1997 UK general election, calling them "appalling"
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Britannia Awards (2004).
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Mirren was named Naturist of the Year by British Naturism
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003).
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Of Lana Clarkson in his California mansion
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Mirren starred in Nigel Cole's comedy Calendar Girls, inspired by the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research under the auspices of the Women's Institut
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Gosford Park (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
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
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Mirren played Cleopatra to Alan Rickman's Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre
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1997· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Losing Chase (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Prime Suspect (1996).
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1995).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for The Madness of King George (1995).
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For her Broadway debut in A Month in the Country and then again in 2002 for The Dance of Death, co-starring with Sir Ian McKellen, their fraught rehearsal period coinciding with the terrorist attacks on New York on 11 Se
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1994· 1 entry
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
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for Prime Suspect (1992).
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1990· 2 entries
“I am quite spiritual. I believed in fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don”
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Mirren said in an interview that she was an atheist
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1986· 1 entry
While Hackford was married to his second wife
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1985· 1 entry
On the set of White Nights, Mirren met American director Taylor Hackford
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Cal (1984).
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1981· 1 entry
Mirren returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friel's Faith Healer
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1977· 1 entry
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', and winning acclaim for her performance as Is
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1976· 1 entry
Appeared with Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates and Malcolm McDowell in a production of Harold Pinter's The Collection as part of the Laurence Olivier Presents series
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1975· 1 entry
With Michael Parkinson on his BBC One talk show in which the host asked several questions to Mirren that were viewed as misogynist
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1972· 1 entry
And 1973, Mirren worked with Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre Research and joined the group's tour in North Africa and the US, during which they created The Conference of the Birds
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1970· 1 entry
The director and producer John Goldschmidt made a documentary film, Doing Her Own Thing, about Mirren during her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company
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1967· 1 entry
Recalled, "I witnessed things that were wrong
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1951· 1 entry
Changed the family name to Mirren by deed poll
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-07-26.
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1938· 1 entry
And at some point before 1951 he anglicised his first name to Basil
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