Helen Mirren

She has won an Academy Award , four SAG Awards , four BAFTAs , three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career.

Mirren has won an Academy Award for Best Actress , four BAFTAs , three Golden Globes , four Emmy Awards , two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards , and one Tony Award . In 2003, she received a Damehood in the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts . Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the latter half of the 1960s. From her very first film appearances (e.g., playing the young muse to a middle-aged artist in 1969's Age of Consent ), Mirren displayed the overtly sensual screen persona that would become her trademark. (1973), The Long Good Friday (1980) and Excalibur (1981). During her career, she has portrayed three British queens in different films and television series: Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I (2005), for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress, Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), which won her the Academy and BAFTA Award for Best Actress , and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in The Madness of King George (1994), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She is the only actress to date to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth on the screen. Mirren played the no-nonsense police detective Jane Tennison on the praised ITV series Prime Suspect for a total of seven seasons from 1991 to 2006, and won numerous awards for the role, including BAFTA and Emmy awards. Making her West End stage debut in the 1970s, Mirren returned to the London stage most recently in 2013, playing Queen Elizabeth II for the second time in a play titled The Audience . Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 2013. In April 2013, she was awarded best actress at the Laurence Olivier Awards , and in June 2015 she was awarded best actress at the Tony Awards ; both for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience . In January 2014, BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship. Helen Mirren crowned top actress at top UK theatre awards .

British actress Dame Helen Lydia Mirren , DBE ( née Mironoff ; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Excelling on stage with the National Youth Theatre , her 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. She is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting in the US. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen , the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the same role in The Audience , and has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie four times. Mirren's other Academy Award nominations were for The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009). After her breakthrough film role in The Long Good Friday (1980), some other notable film roles include 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 Hobbs & Shaw (2019). In 2003, Mirren was appointed a Dame (DBE) for services to drama. In 2013, Mirren 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.

She is the recipient of numerous accolades and is the only performer to have achieved both the American and the British Triple Crowns of Acting. Mirren has 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 portraying the same character in The Audience , three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect , four Primetime Emmy Awards , and a Children's and Family Emmy Award . Mirren's stage performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre in 1965 provided her an opportunity to join the Royal Shakespeare Company , before making her West End stage debut in 1975. She subsequently went on to achieve success in film and television, appearing in films such as The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009), receiving Academy Award nominations for each of those performances. She played 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 of the regnant Elizabeths on screen. After her breakthrough role in The Long Good Friday (1980), Mirren appeared in a variety of other films including 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), The Tempest (2010), The Debt (2010), Hitchcock (2012), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Woman in Gold (2015), Eye in the Sky (2015), Trumbo (2015), and The Leisure Seeker (2017). She has also appeared in several action films such as Red (2010) and its sequel Red 2 (2013), as well as in the Fast & Furious film franchise 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 . She's received numerous honours including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2022.

English actor (born 1945) In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs , the patronymic is Vasilievna and the family name is Mironov . Dame Helen Mirren ( / ˈ m ɪ r ən / ; born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov ; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. With a career spanning over six decades of screen and stage , her accolades include an Academy Award , five Emmy Awards , a Tony Award , four BAFTA Awards , and a Laurence Olivier Award . She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting , and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship , Honorary Golden Bear , and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award . Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 . Mirren started her career at the age of 18 as a performer with the National Youth Theatre , where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1965). She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her West End stage debut in 1975. She reprised the role on Broadway and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play . She was Tony-nominated for A Month in the Country (1995) and The Dance of Death (2002). Mirren's first credited film role was in Herostratus (1967) and her first major role was in Age of Consent (1969). She gained further recognition for her roles in O Lucky Man! The Long Good Friday (1980), Excalibur (1981), The Mosquito Coast (1986), and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989). She received Academy Award nominations for her performances in The Madness of King George (1994) and Gosford Park (2001), before winning Best Actress for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in the drama The Queen (2006). She was nominated again for her performance in The Last Station (2009), and went on to appear in further films such as The Tempest (2010), Hitchcock (2012), Eye in the Sky (2015), and Trumbo (2015). She has also appeared in the action film Red (2010) and its 2013 sequel , as well as four films in the Fast & Furious franchise. On television, Mirren played DCI Jane Tennison in ITV 's police procedural Prime Suspect (1991–2006), for which she earned three British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress and two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie . She also earned Emmy Awards for portraying Ayn Rand in the Showtime television film The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) and Queen Elizabeth I in the HBO miniseries Elizabeth I (2005). Her other television roles include Door to Door (2002), Phil Spector (2013), Catherine the Great (2019), 1923 (2022), and MobLand (2025).