Helen Mirren
Acting
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.
Known for
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A Talent for a Murder
2026
Patricia Highsmith
movieThis Ordinary Thing
2025
Self (voice)
movieThe Thursday Murder Club
2025
Elizabeth
tvMobLand
2025
Maeve Harrigan
movieWhite Bird
2023
Grandmére
movieGolda
2023
Golda Meir
movieBarbie
2023
Narrator (voice)
movieFast X
2023
Queenie
movieHelen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
2023
Self (archive)
tv1923
2022
Cara Dutton
movieKendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
2022
Therapist (voice)
tvSunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Self – Actor
tvRemembers…
2022
Self
tvHuman Resources
2022
Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
movieEscape from Extinction
2021
Narrator (voice)
movieParkinson at 50
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Duke
2021
Dorothy Bunton
tvWhen Nature Calls with Helen Mirren
2021
Narrator (voice)
tvSolos
2021
Peg
movieF9
2021
Queenie Shaw
movieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieSarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
Lip-sync Billy Bush
movieThe One and Only Ivan
2020
Snickers (voice)
tvSecrets of the Museum
2020
Queen Elizabeth (archive)
movieBerlin, I Love You
2019
Margaret
movieThe Good Liar
2019
Betty McLeish
tvCatherine the Great
2019
Catherine the Great
tvThe Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Self - Guest
movieFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019
Queenie Shaw
movieAn Accidental Studio
2019
Self (archive footage)
movieAnna
2019
Olga
tvThe Masked Singer
2019
Self - Clue Giver (video)
movieThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Mother Ginger
movieWinchester
2018
Sarah Winchester
movieThe Leisure Seeker
2018
Ella Spencer
movieThe Fate of the Furious
2017
Queenie (uncredited)
movieCries from Syria
2017
Narrator
movieCollateral Beauty
2016
Brigitte
movieShakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Self - Performer
movieDames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Self (archive material)
movieTrumbo
2015
Hedda Hopper
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
movieEye in the Sky
2015
Colonel Katherine Powell
tvDocumentary Now!
2015
Helen Mirren - Host
movieUnity
2015
Narrator (voice)
movieWoman in Gold
2015
Maria Altmann
movieThe Hundred-Foot Journey
2014
Madam Mallory
tvLast Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Self (voice)
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self - Guest
movieRED 2
2013
Victoria
movieMonsters University
2013
Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
moviePhil Spector
2013
Linda Kenney Baden
movieHitchcock
2012
Alma Reville
movieThe Door
2012
Emerenc Szeredás
movieArthur
2011
Hobson
movieRED
2010
Victoria
movieThe Debt
2010
Rachel Singer
movieThe Tempest
2010
Prospera
movieLove Ranch
2010
Grace Bontempo
movieArabia 3D
2010
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Last Station
2009
Sofya Tolstoya
tvGlee
2009
Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
movieState of Play
2009
Cameron Lynne
movieThe Jazz Baroness
2009
Nica - Narrator
movieInkheart
2008
Elinor Loredan
movieNational Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
Emily Appleton
tvThe Graham Norton Show
2007
Self / Self - Guest
movieThe Queen
2006
The Queen
tvThe One Show
2006
Self - Guest
tvElizabeth I
2005
Queen Elizabeth I
movieThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Deep Thought (voice)
movieThe Clearing
2004
Eileen Hayes
moviePride
2004
Macheeba (voice)
movieCary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
Narrator (voice)
movieRaising Helen
2004
Dominique Courier
movieCalendar Girls
2003
Chris Harper
movieCelebrity Naked Ambition
2003
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
Karen Stone
tvTop Gear
2002
Self
movieDoor to Door
2002
Mrs. Porter
movieNo Such Thing
2002
The Boss
tvLive from E!
2002
Herself
movieGosford Park
2001
Mrs. Wilson
tvFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Self - Guest
movieGreenfingers
2001
Georgina Woodhouse
movieOn the Edge
2001
Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
movieThe Pledge
2001
Doctor
tvThird Watch
1999
Annie Foster
movieThe Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
Self (archive footage)
movieTeaching Mrs. Tingle
1999
Mrs. Tingle
movieThe Passion of Ayn Rand
1999
Ayn Rand
movieThe Prince of Egypt
1998
Queen (voice)
tvParkinson
1998
Self
tvPainted Lady
1997
Maggie Sheridan
movieCritical Care
1997
Stella
tvThe View
1997
Self
movieLosing Chase
1996
Chase Phillips
movieSome Mother's Son
1996
Kathleen Quigley
movieThe Snow Queen
1995
The Snow Queen
movieThe Madness of King George
1994
Queen Charlotte
movieChildren of God
1994
Narrator
movieThe Hawk
1993
Annie Marsh
movieBethune: The Making of a Hero
1993
Frances Penny Bethune
tvFrasier
1993
Babette (voice)
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Self - Guest
tvLate Show with David Letterman
1993
Self - Guest
tvGMTV
1993
Self
movieWhere Angels Fear to Tread
1991
Lilia Herriton
tvPrime Suspect
1991
Jane Tennison
movieThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
Georgina Spica
movieWhen the Whales Came
1989
Clemmie Jenkins
tvLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Self - Guest
moviePascali's Island
1988
Lydia Neuman
movieCause Célèbre
1987
Alma Rattenbury
movieThe Little Mermaid
1987
Princess Emilia
tvFrench & Saunders
1987
Herself
movieThe Mosquito Coast
1986
Mother Fox
movieHeavenly Pursuits
1986
Ruth Chancellor
movieInvocation: Maya Deren
1986
Narrator
movieComing Through
1985
Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
movieWhite Nights
1985
Galina Ivanova
tvThe Twilight Zone
1985
Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
tvScreen Two
1985
Annie Marsh
movie2010
1984
Tanya Kirbuk
movieCal
1984
Marcella
movieAn Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
Self (uncredited)
movieCymbeline
1983
Imogen
tvReading Rainbow
1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
tvFaerie Tale Theatre
1982
Princess Emilia
movieMrs. Reinhardt
1981
Mrs. Reinhardt
movieExcalibur
1981
Morgana
movieThe Long Good Friday
1980
Victoria
movieHussy
1980
Beaty Simons
movieS.O.S. Titanic
1980
May Sloan, Stewardess
movieCaligula
1979
Caesonia
movieAs You Like It
1978
Rosalind
tvThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Rosalind / Titania / Imogen
movieThe Country Wife
1977
Margery Pinchwife
movieThe Collection
1976
Stella
movieHamlet
1976
Ophelia / Gertrude
tvSaturday Night Live
1975
Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)
movieCaesar and Claretta
1975
Claretta Petacci
Private Affairs
1975
Claretta Petacci
movieA Coffin for the Bride
1974
Stella McKenzie
tvPlayhouse
1974
Mrs. Reinhardt
movieThe Changeling
1974
Beatrice-Joanna
tvThriller
1973
Stella McKenzie
movieO Lucky Man!
1973
Patricia / Casting Assistant
movieMiss Julie
1972
Miss Julie
movieSavage Messiah
1972
Gosh Boyle
tvCousin Bette
1971
Valérie Marneffe
tvGreat Performances
1971
Stella
tvPlay for Today
1970
Angela
movieAge of Consent
1969
Cora Ryan
movieHerostratus
1967
Advert Woman
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Beatrice-Joanna / Orinthia / Babbie / Margery Pinchwife
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvToday
1952
Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Winner
Sniff
The Spider
Production3
tvCatherine the Great
2019
Executive Producer
tvPainted Lady
1997
Producer
movieSome Mother's Son
1996
Associate Producer
Directing1
movieOn the Edge
2001
Director