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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 A…
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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.
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A Talent for Murder
as Patricia Highsmith
Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
as Self
Goodbye June
as June
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
The Thursday Murder Club
as Elizabeth
Duse, the Greatest
White Bird
as Grandmére
Golda
as Golda Meir
Barbie
as Narrator (voice)
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
as Self
Fast X
as Queenie
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
as Self (archive)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
as Hespera
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
as Therapist (voice)
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
as Self
Escape from Extinction
as Narrator (voice)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
The Duke
as Dorothy Bunton
F9
as Queenie Shaw
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
The One and Only Ivan
as Snickers (voice)
Berlin, I Love You
as Margaret
The Good Liar
as Betty McLeish
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
as Narrator
On Broadway
as Self
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Queenie Shaw
An Accidental Studio
as Self (archive footage)
Anna
as Olga
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Mother Ginger
Winchester
as Sarah Winchester
The Leisure Seeker
as Ella Spencer
No Poster
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
as Self
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
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
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
Trumbo
as Hedda Hopper
Eye in the Sky
as Colonel Katherine Powell
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
Woman in Gold
as Maria Altmann
The Hundred-Foot Journey
as Madam Mallory
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
as Narrator
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as Self
Istintobrass
as Self
RED 2
as Victoria
Monsters University
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
No Poster
Goodbye Granadaland
as Self
Phil Spector
as Linda Kenney Baden
National Theatre Live: The Audience
as The Queen
Radioman
as Self
Hitchcock
as Alma Reville
The Door
as Emerenc Szeredás
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
as Self
Arthur
as Hobson
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
as Sharon
RED
as Victoria
The Debt
as Rachel Singer
Brighton Rock
as Ida
The Tempest
as Prospera
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Nyra (voice)
Love Ranch
as Grace Bontempo
Arabia 3D
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Station
as Sofya Tolstoya
No Poster
Yes Madam, Sir
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Phèdre
State of Play
as Cameron Lynne
The Jazz Baroness
as Nica - Narrator
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Inkheart
as Elinor
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Emily Appleton
No Poster
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self
The Queen
as The Queen
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
as Self
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
as Herself
Best Ever Muppet Moments
as Self
Shadowboxer
as Rose
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
as Tiberia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Deep Thought (voice)
The Clearing
as Eileen Hayes
Pride
as Macheeba (voice)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Narrator (voice)
Raising Helen
as Dominique Courier
Calendar Girls
as Chris Harper
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Karen Stone
Door to Door
as Mrs. Porter
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
No Such Thing
as The Boss
No Poster
Robert Altman in England
as Self
Brook by Brook
as Self
Gosford Park
as Mrs. Wilson
Last Orders
as Amy
Greenfingers
as Georgina Woodhouse
On the Edge
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
The Pledge
as Doctor
Long Night's Journey into Day
as Narrator
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
as Mrs. Tingle
The Passion of Ayn Rand
as Ayn Rand
The Prince of Egypt
as Queen (voice)
Critical Care
as Stella
Losing Chase
as Chase Phillips
Some Mother's Son
as Kathleen Quigley
The Snow Queen
as The Snow Queen
The Madness of King George
as Queen Charlotte
Children of God
as Narrator
Prince of Jutland
as Geruth
The Hawk
as Annie Marsh
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Frances Penny Bethune
A Friend in New Orleans
as Herself
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Lilia Herriton
The Comfort of Strangers
as Caroline
Red King, White Knight
as Anna
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
Coming Through
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
White Nights
as Galina Ivanova
2010
as Tanya Kirbuk
Cal
as Marcella
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
as Herself
Cymbeline
as Imogen
Soft Targets
as Celia
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
Mrs. Reinhardt
as Mrs. Reinhardt
Excalibur
as Morgana
The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie
as Self
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
as Self / Caesonia
The Long Good Friday
as Victoria
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Alice Rage
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
The Little Minister
as Babbie
No Poster
The Philanthropist
as Celia
Caesar and Claretta
as Claretta Petacci
No Poster
The Apple Cart
The Empty Space
as Self
A Coffin for the Bride
as Stella McKenzie
The Changeling
as Beatrice-Joanna
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
as Herself
O Lucky Man!
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
Miss Julie
as Miss Julie
Savage Messiah
as Gosh Boyle
Red Hot Shot
Age of Consent
as Cora Ryan
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hermia
Herostratus
as Advert Woman
No Poster
Sniff
as The Spider