Helen Mirren
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-07-26 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Helen Mirren
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.
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Known For
Acting
Fast X: Part 2
as Queenie Shaw
Sniff
as The Spider
Switzerland
as Patricia Highsmith
(2025)
The Thursday Murder Club
as Elizabeth Best
(2025)
(2023)
Barbie
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Fast X
as Queenie Shaw
(2023)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
as Hespera
(2023)
White Bird
as Grandmére
(2023)
Golda
as Golda Meir
(2023)
(2023)
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
as Elle-même (archives)
(2022)
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
as Therapist (voice)
(2021)
F9
as Queenie Shaw
(2021)
The Duke
as Dorothy Bunton
(2021)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Escape from Extinction
as Narrator (voice)
(2021)
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
as Self
(2020)
The One and Only Ivan
as Snickers (voice)
(2020)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
(2020)
Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans
as Grandmother Turtle
(2019)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Queenie Shaw
(2019)
Anna
as Olga
(2019)
The Good Liar
as Betty McLeish
(2019)
Berlin, I Love You
as Margaret
(2019)
On Broadway
as Self
(2019)
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
as Narrator
(2019)
An Accidental Studio
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Mother Ginger
(2018)
Winchester
as Sarah Winchester
(2018)
The Leisure Seeker
as Ella Spencer
(2017)
The Fate of the Furious
as Queenie (uncredited)
(2017)
Cries from Syria
as Narrator
(2017)
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
(2017)
(2016)
Collateral Beauty
as Brigitte
(2016)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
(2015)
Eye in the Sky
as Colonel Katherine Powell
(2015)
Woman in Gold
as Maria Altmann
(2015)
Trumbo
as Hedda Hopper
(2015)
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
(2014)
The Hundred-Foot Journey
as Madam Mallory
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
(2013)
Monsters University
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
(2013)
RED 2
as Victoria
(2013)
Istintobrass
as Self
(2013)
Phil Spector
as Linda Kenney Baden
(2013)
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as Self
(2013)
National Theatre Live: The Audience
as The Queen
(2013)
Goodbye Granadaland
as Self
(2012)
Hitchcock
as Alma Reville
(2012)
The Door
as Emerenc Szeredás
(2012)
Radioman
as Self
(2011)
Arthur
as Hobson
(2011)
(2011)
(2010)
RED
as Victoria
(2010)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Nyra (voice)
(2010)
The Debt
as Rachel Singer
(2010)
The Tempest
as Prospera
(2010)
Brighton Rock
as Ida
(2010)
Love Ranch
as Grace Bontempo
(2010)
Arabia 3D
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
State of Play
as Cameron Lynne
(2009)
The Last Station
as Sofya Tolstoya
(2009)
Yes Madam, Sir
as Narrator
(2009)
(2009)
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Phèdre
(2009)
The Jazz Baroness
as Nica - Narrator
(2008)
Inkheart
as Elinor Loredan
(2007)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Emily Appleton
(2006)
The Queen
as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
(2006)
Best Ever Muppet Moments
as Self
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Deep Thought (voice)
(2005)
Shadowboxer
as Rose
(2005)
(2004)
Raising Helen
as Dominique Courier
(2004)
The Clearing
as Eileen Hayes
(2004)
Pride
as Macheeba (voice)
(2004)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Calendar Girls
as Chris Harper
(2003)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Karen Stone
(2002)
Door to Door
as Mrs. Porter
(2002)
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self
(2002)
No Such Thing
as The Boss
(2002)
Robert Altman in England
as Herself
(2001)
The Pledge
as Doctor
(2001)
Gosford Park
as Mrs. Wilson
(2001)
Last Orders
as Amy
(2001)
Greenfingers
as Georgina Woodhouse
(2001)
On the Edge
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
(2000)
Long Night's Journey Into Day
as Narrator
(1999)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
as Mrs. Tingle
(1999)
The Passion of Ayn Rand
as Ayn Rand
(1999)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1998)
The Prince of Egypt
as Queen (voice)
(1997)
Critical Care
as Stella
(1996)
Some Mother's Son
as Kathleen Quigley
(1996)
Losing Chase
as Chase Phillips
(1995)
The Snow Queen
as The Snow Queen
(1994)
The Madness of King George
as Queen Charlotte
(1994)
Prince of Jutland
as Geruth
(1994)
Children of God
as Narrator
(1993)
The Hawk
as Annie Marsh
(1993)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Frances Penny Bethune
(1991)
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
(1989)
Red King, White Knight
as Anna
(1989)
When the Whales Came
as Clemmie Jenkins
(1988)
Pascali's Island
as Lydia Neuman
(1987)
Cause Célèbre
as Alma Rattenbury
(1987)
The Little Mermaid
as Princess Emilia
(1986)
The Mosquito Coast
as Mother Fox
(1986)
Heavenly Pursuits
as Ruth Chancellor
(1986)
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Narrator
(1985)
White Nights
as Galina Ivanova
(1985)
Coming Through
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
(1984)
2010
as Tanya Kirbuk
(1984)
Cal
as Marcella
(1984)
(1984)
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
(1984)
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
as Herself
(1982)
Cymbeline
as Imogen
(1982)
Soft Targets
as Celia
(1981)
Excalibur
as Morgana
(1981)
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
as Self / Caesonia
(1981)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
(1981)
Mrs. Reinhardt
as Mrs. Reinhardt
(1980)
The Long Good Friday
as Victoria
(1980)
S.O.S. Titanic
as May Sloan, Stewardess
(1980)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Alice Rage
(1980)
Hussy
as Beaty Simons
(1979)
Caligula
as Caesonia
(1979)
Blue Remembered Hills
as Angela
(1978)
As You Like It
as Rosalind
(1977)
The Country Wife
as Margery Pinchwife
(1976)
The Collection
as Stella
(1976)
Hamlet
as Ophelia / Gertrude
(1975)
The Philanthropist
as Celia
(1975)
The Little Minister
as Babbie
(1975)
Caesar and Claretta
as Claretta Petacci
(1975)
(1975)
The Empty Space
as Self
(1974)
A Coffin for the Bride
as Stella McKenzie
(1974)
The Changeling
as Beatrice-Joanna
(1973)
O Lucky Man!
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
(1973)
(1972)
Savage Messiah
as Gosh Boyle
(1972)
Miss Julie
as Miss Julie
(1970)
(1969)
Age of Consent
as Cora Ryan
(1968)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hermia
(1967)
Herostratus
as Advert Woman
(1966)
Press for Time
as Beauty Pageant Contestant (uncredited)
Crew
(2001)
On the Edge
Director
(1996)
Some Mother's Son
Associate Producer