Helen Mirren
131 movies · 32 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 26, 1945 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Helen Lydia Mironoff · Helen Lydia Mirren · Dame Helen Mirren · Ilyena Vasilievna Mironova
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.
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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
Helen Mirren: movies and TV shows
Acting (163)
- Upcoming A Talent for Murder
as Patricia Highsmith
- Upcoming Sniff
as The Spider
- Upcoming Co-Op: Original Cast Album
as Helen Mirren
- 2026
- 2025 Goodbye June
as June
- 2025 The Thursday Murder Club
as Elizabeth
- 2025
- 2025
- 2023 White Bird
as Grandmére
- 2023 Golda
as Golda Meir
- 2023 Barbie
as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 Fast X
as Queenie
- 2023 Shazam! Fury of the Gods
as Hespera
- 2022
- 2022 Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
as Therapist (voice)
- 2022
- 2021 Escape from Extinction
as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 The Duke
as Dorothy Bunton
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 F9
as Queenie Shaw
- 2020 Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
- 2020 The One and Only Ivan
as Snickers (voice)
- 2020
- 2019 Berlin, I Love You
as Margaret
- 2019 The Good Liar
as Betty McLeish
- 2019 #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
as Narrator
- 2019
- 2019 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Queenie Shaw
- 2019 Anna
as Olga
- 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
- 2016 Collateral Beauty
as Brigitte
- 2015 Trumbo
as Hedda Hopper
- 2015 Eye in the Sky
as Colonel Katherine Powell
- 2015
- 2015 Unity
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Woman in Gold
as Maria Altmann
- 2014 The Hundred-Foot Journey
as Madam Mallory
- 2014 Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
as Narrator
- 2013 RED 2
as Victoria
- 2013 Monsters University
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
- 2013 Phil Spector
as Linda Kenney Baden
- 2013 National Theatre Live: The Audience
as The Queen
- 2012 Hitchcock
as Alma Reville
- 2012 The Door
as Emerenc Szeredás
- 2011 Arthur
as Hobson
- 2011
- 2010 RED
as Victoria
- 2010 The Debt
as Rachel Singer
- 2010 Brighton Rock
as Ida
- 2010 The Tempest
as Prospera
- 2010 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Nyra (voice)
- 2010 Love Ranch
as Grace Bontempo
- 2010 Arabia 3D
as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 The Last Station
as Sofya Tolstoya
- 2009 Yes Madam, Sir
as Narrator
- 2009 National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Phèdre
- 2009
- 2009 State of Play
as Cameron Lynne
- 2009 The Jazz Baroness
as Nica - Narrator
- 2009
- 2008 Inkheart
as Elinor
- 2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Emily Appleton
- 2007
- 2006 The Queen
as The Queen
- 2005
- 2005 Shadowboxer
as Rose
- 2005
- 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Deep Thought (voice)
- 2004 The Clearing
as Eileen Hayes
- 2004 Pride
as Macheeba (voice)
- 2004 Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 Raising Helen
as Dominique Courier
- 2003 Calendar Girls
as Chris Harper
- 2003 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Karen Stone
- 2002 Door to Door
as Mrs. Porter
- 2002 No Such Thing
as The Boss
- 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)
- 2001 The Pledge
as Doctor
- 2000 Long Night's Journey into Day
as Narrator
- 1999
- 1999 Teaching Mrs. Tingle
as Mrs. Tingle
- 1999 The Passion of Ayn Rand
as Ayn Rand
- 1998 The Prince of Egypt
as Queen (voice)
- 1997
- 1997 Critical Care
as Stella
- 1996 Losing Chase
as Chase Phillips
- 1996 Some Mother's Son
as Kathleen Quigley
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995 The Snow Queen
as The Snow Queen
- 1994 The Madness of King George
as Queen Charlotte
- 1994 Children of God
as Narrator
- 1994 Prince of Jutland
as Geruth
- 1993 The Hawk
as Annie Marsh
- 1993 Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Frances Penny Bethune
- 1993
- 1991
- 1991 Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Lilia Herriton
- 1991
- 1990 The Comfort of Strangers
as Caroline
- 1989 Red King, White Knight
as Anna
- 1989 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Georgina Spica
- 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 Coming Through
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
- 1985 White Nights
as Galina Ivanova
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 2010
as Tanya Kirbuk
- 1984 Cal
as Marcella
- 1983 Cymbeline
as Imogen
- 1982 Soft Targets
as Celia
- 1982
- 1981 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
- 1981 Mrs. Reinhardt
as Mrs. Reinhardt
- 1981 Excalibur
as Morgana
- 1980 The Long Good Friday
as Victoria
- 1980 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Alice Rage
- 1980 Hussy
as Beaty Simons
- 1980 S.O.S. Titanic
as May Sloan, Stewardess
- 1979 Caligula
as Caesonia
- 1979 Blue Remembered Hills
as Angela
- 1978 As You Like It
as Rosalind
- 1978
- 1977 The Country Wife
as Margery Pinchwife
- 1976
- 1976 The Collection
as Stella
- 1976 Hamlet
as Ophelia / Gertrude
- 1975 The Little Minister
as Babbie
- 1975 The Philanthropist
as Celia
- 1975 Caesar and Claretta
as Claretta Petacci
- 1975
- 1975
- 1974 A Coffin for the Bride
as Stella McKenzie
- 1974
- 1974 The Changeling
as Beatrice-Joanna
- 1973
- 1973 O Lucky Man!
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
- 1972 Miss Julie
as Miss Julie
- 1972 Savage Messiah
as Gosh Boyle
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970
- 1970
- 1969 Age of Consent
as Cora Ryan
- 1969
- 1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hermia
- 1967
- 1967 Herostratus
as Advert Woman
- 1965
Behind the camera (4)
- 2019
- 2001 On the Edge
Director
- 1997
- 1996 Some Mother's Son
Associate Producer
Talk shows and appearances (78)
- 2026
- 2025
- 2023 Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2023 Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2 episodes
- 2023
- 2023
- 2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
1 episode
- 2022 Remembers…
4 episodes
- 2021
- 2021 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
4 episodes
- 2021
- 2021
- 2019
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2 episodes
- 2019
- 2019 The Masked Singer
1 episode
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2014 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
3 episodes
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011 The Jonathan Ross Show
1 episode
- 2009 Live from Studio Five
1 episode
- 2009
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
10 episodes
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006 The One Show
2 episodes
- 2006
- 2006
- 2004 Parkinson
1 episode
- 2003
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2002 Top Gear
1 episode
- 2002
- 2002 American Idol
1 episode
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002 Live from E!
1 episode
- 2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2 episodes
- 2001 Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
1 episode
- 1999 The Early Show
1 episode
- 1999
- 1998 Parkinson
1 episode
- 1997 The View
4 episodes
- 1997 Leute heute
1 episode
- 1995 The Frank Skinner Show
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2 episodes
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman
1 episode
- 1993 GMTV
1 episode
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episodes
- 1992
- 1988 This Morning
2 episodes
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1987 French & Saunders
1 episode
- 1984
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1984
- 1983 Reading Rainbow
1 episode
- 1981
- 1981
- 1978 The South Bank Show
1 episode
- 1978 An Audience with...
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
2 episodes
- 1975
- 1973
- 1971 Film '72
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
4 episodes
- 1952 Today
2 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode