Helen Mirren
Born: 1945-07-26 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2026
- Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
- Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century as Self
- Switzerland as Patricia Highsmith
2025
- MobLand as Maeve Harrigan
- The Thursday Murder Club as Elizabeth
- Goodbye June as June
- This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
- Duse, the Greatest
2023
- Barbie as Narrator (voice)
- Fast X as Queenie
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Hespera
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- White Bird as Grandmére
- Golda as Golda Meir
- Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius as Self
- Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short as Self
- Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses as Self (archive)
2022
- 1923 as Cara Dutton
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- Human Resources as Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
- Remembers…
- Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour as Therapist (voice)
2021
- F9 as Queenie Shaw
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses as Self - Host
- Solos as Peg
- The Duke as Dorothy Bunton
- Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren as Narrator (voice)
- Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)
- L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth as Self
- Escape from Extinction as Narrator (voice)
2020
- The One and Only Ivan as Snickers (voice)
- Secrets of the Museum as Queen Elizabeth (archive)
- Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine as Lip-sync Billy Bush
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self - Guest
- The Masked Singer as Self - Clue Giver (video)
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as Queenie Shaw
- Anna as Olga
- Catherine the Great as Catherine the Great
- The Good Liar as Betty McLeish
- Berlin, I Love You as Margaret
- On Broadway as Self
- An Accidental Studio as Self (archive footage)
- #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories as Narrator
- Any Given Saturday Afternoon as Self - Host
2018
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Mother Ginger
- Winchester as Sarah Winchester
- The Leisure Seeker as Ella Spencer
2017
- The Fate of the Furious as Queenie (uncredited)
- The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
- Cries from Syria as Narrator
- Il était une fois... « The Queen » as Self
2016
- Collateral Beauty as Brigitte
- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
- Mr.Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid as Self
- Final Transmission as Self
- Globesman as Self
- Location is Everything as Self
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Documentary Now! as Helen Mirren - Host
- Eye in the Sky as Colonel Katherine Powell
- Woman in Gold as Maria Altmann
- Trumbo as Hedda Hopper
- Unity as Narrator (voice)
- Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee as Self
- Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive material)
- Sandy Passage as Self
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self (voice)
- The Hundred-Foot Journey as Madam Mallory
- Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story as Narrator
2013
- Monsters University as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
- RED 2 as Victoria
- Istintobrass as Self
- Phil Spector as Linda Kenney Baden
- Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self
- National Theatre Live: The Audience as The Queen
- Goodbye Granadaland as Self
2011
- The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- Arthur as Hobson
- Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts as Self
- When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren as Sharon
2010
- RED as Victoria
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Nyra (voice)
- The Debt as Rachel Singer
- Love Ranch as Grace Bontempo
- The Tempest as Prospera
- Brighton Rock as Ida
- Arabia 3D as Narrator (voice)
2009
- Glee as Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
- State of Play as Cameron Lynne
- The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoya
- All the Queen's Horses with Alan Titchmarsh as Self
- Live from Studio Five as Self
- Behind The Scenes of Caligula
- Yes Madam, Sir as Narrator
- National Theatre Live: Phèdre as Phèdre
- The Jazz Baroness as Nica - Narrator
2008
- Inkheart as Elinor Loredan
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Emily Appleton
- The Making of 'The Queen' as Self
2006
- The One Show as Self - Guest
- The Queen as The Queen
- Best Ever Muppet Moments as Self
- Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday as Herself
- Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights' as Self
2005
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Deep Thought (voice)
- Elizabeth I as Queen Elizabeth I
- Shadowboxer as Rose
- Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula as Tiberia
2004
- Raising Helen as Dominique Courier
- The Clearing as Eileen Hayes
- Pride as Macheeba (voice)
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Narrator (voice)
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- Calendar Girls as Chris Harper
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Karen Stone
- Celebrity Naked Ambition as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Top Gear as Self
- American Idol as Self
- Live from E! as Herself
- Door to Door as Mrs. Porter
- The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- No Such Thing as The Boss
- Robert Altman in England as Herself
2001
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery as Self
- Gosford Park as Mrs. Wilson
- The Pledge as Doctor
- On the Edge as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
- Last Orders as Amy
- Greenfingers as Georgina Woodhouse
2000
- Long Night's Journey into Day as Narrator
1999
- Third Watch as Annie Foster
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle as Mrs. Tingle
- The Early Show as Self
- The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
- The Passion of Ayn Rand as Ayn Rand
1998
- The Prince of Egypt as Queen (voice)
- Parkinson as Self
1997
- The View as Self
- Leute heute as Self
- Painted Lady as Maggie Sheridan
- Critical Care as Stella
1996
- Ruby Wax Meets
- Some Mother's Son as Kathleen Quigley
- Losing Chase as Chase Phillips
1995
- The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- The Snow Queen as The Snow Queen
1994
- The Madness of King George as Queen Charlotte
- Prince of Jutland as Geruth
- Children of God as Narrator
1993
- Frasier as Babette (voice)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- GMTV as Self
- The Hawk as Annie Marsh
- Bethune: The Making of a Hero as Frances Penny Bethune
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- A Friend in New Orleans as Herself
1991
- Prime Suspect as Jane Tennison
- The Hidden Room as Sarah
- Where Angels Fear to Tread as Lilia Herriton
1990
- The Comfort of Strangers as Caroline
1989
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Georgina Spica
- Red King, White Knight as Anna
- When the Whales Came as Clemmie Jenkins
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- This Morning as Self
- Pascali's Island as Lydia Neuman
1987
- French & Saunders as Herself
- Cause Célèbre as Alma Rattenbury
- The Little Mermaid as Princess Emilia
1986
- The Mosquito Coast as Mother Fox
- Heavenly Pursuits as Ruth Chancellor
- Invocation: Maya Deren as Narrator
1985
- The Twilight Zone as Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
- White Nights as Galina Ivanova
- Coming Through as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- 2010 as Tanya Kirbuk
- Cal as Marcella
- An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- 2010 : The Odyssey Continues as Herself
1983
- Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Cymbeline as Imogen
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Princess Emilia
- Soft Targets as Celia
1981
- Excalibur as Morgana
- A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' as Self / Caesonia
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
- Mrs. Reinhardt as Mrs. Reinhardt
- The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie as Self
1980
- The Long Good Friday as Victoria
- S.O.S. Titanic as May Sloan, Stewardess
- The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Alice Rage
- Hussy as Beaty Simons
1979
- Caligula as Caesonia
- Blue Remembered Hills as Angela
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- As You Like It as Rosalind
1977
- The Country Wife as Margery Pinchwife
1976
- Laurence Olivier Presents
- The Collection as Stella
- Hamlet as Ophelia / Gertrude
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- The Little Minister as Babbie
- Caesar and Claretta as Claretta Petacci
- The Empty Space as Self
- The Philanthropist as Celia
- The Apple Cart
1974
- Playhouse as Mrs. Reinhardt
- The Changeling as Beatrice-Joanna
- A Coffin for the Bride as Stella McKenzie
1973
- Thriller as Stella McKenzie
- O Lucky Man! as Patricia / Casting Assistant
- O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment as Herself
1972
- Savage Messiah as Gosh Boyle
- Miss Julie as Miss Julie
1971
- Great Performances as Stella
- Cousin Bette as Valérie Marneffe
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Rachel
- Age of Consent as Cora Ryan
1968
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia
1967
- Omnibus
- Herostratus as Advert Woman
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Margery Pinchwife
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner