Helen Mirren Bio | Wiki
Helen Mirren is a renowned English actress. As an actress, she has attained numerous accolades with the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. Also, she received a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience.
Mirren took three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect as well as four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Children’s and Family Emmy Award. She had a stage performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre in 1965. She then achieved TV and film success by appearing in The Madness of King George, Gosford Park, and The Last Station earning Academy Award nominations for each of those performances.
Further, she won three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress from 1991 to 2006 and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2005, she played Queen Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen in 2006. In 1980, she attained her breakthrough role in The Long Good Friday. She has also appeared in Cal and won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Mirren has appeared in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Calendar Girls, The Tempest, The Debt, and Hitchcock among others. She was in films like Red and its sequel Red 2, as well as in the Fast & Furious film franchise The Fate of the Furious, Hobbs & Shaw, and F9. Mirren was appointed a Dame (DBE) for services to drama in the Queen’s 2003 Birthday Honours. In 2013, she was included on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2014, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2022.
Helen Mirren Age
She was born on July 26, 1945, in London, England, in the United Kingdom. Mirren is 79 years old.
Helen Mirren Height
She is a woman of below-average stature. Mirren stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in (Approx 1.62 m).
Helen Mirren Family
She was born in London, England, in the United Kingdom to supportive parents. Mirren is the daughter of Kathleen “Kitty” Alexandrina Eva Matilda, a working-class woman from West Ham, and Vasily Petrovich Mironoff member of an exiled family of the Russian nobility. Her father worked as a cab driver and then played the viola with the London Philharmonic Orchestra before World War II.
She grew up with an older sister Katherine and her younger brother Peter Basil who died in 2002. She has a paternal cousin Tania Mallet, a model, and Bond girl. Further, Mirren considers her upbringing to have been “very anti-monarchist”.
Helen Mirren Husband
She married her loving husband American director Taylor Hackford on December 31, 1997, at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The two first met on the set of White Nights. Mirren has no children, stating she has “no maternal instinct whatsoever”. Further, in September 2007, her autobiography, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Mirren said in an interview that she was an atheist in 1990. Also, in a 2008 interview with GQ, Mirren revealed she was date raped as a student and had often taken cocaine at parties in her twenties and until the 1980s. In 2017, she became a United States citizen and voted in her first U.S. election in 2020.
Helen Mirren Liam Neeson
She dated Irish actor Liam Neeson from 1980 to 1985. The two met on the set of the 1981 Arthurian fantasy Excalibur, in which Mirren played Morgan le Fay and Neeson, Sir Gawain. They even lived together while dating. Further, Mirren went on to marry Hackford, while Neeson wed Natasha Richardson in 1994.
Helen Mirren Education
She attended Hamlet Court primary school in Westcliff-on-Sea and then St Bernard’s High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea. During her time, she acted in school productions. Mirren subsequently attended a teaching college, the New College of Speech and Drama in London. When she was 18, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre (NYT); and at twenty, she played Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic.
Helen Mirren Mother
Mirren is the daughter of Kathleen “Kitty” Alexandrina Eva Matilda. her mother was a working-class woman from West Ham. Kathleen was the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher whose own father was the butcher to Queen Victoria. Kathleen’s mother was Countess Lydia Andreevna Kamenskaya, an aristocrat and a descendant of Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky.
Helen Mirren Sister
She has an older sister Katherine born in 1942. She is 81 years old. Katherine has a son Simon Mirren and three grandchildren Natasha Fitzgerald, Cameron, and Felix
Helen Mirren Movies | Films In Order | Films
She has appeared in numerous films since 1966, some of which include:
- Press for Time as Penelope Squires in 1966.
- Age of Consent as Cora Ryan in 1969.
- Savage Messiah as Gosh Boyle in 1972.
- Hamlet as Ophelia/Gertrude in 1976.
- Caligula as Caesonia in 1979.
- Excalibur as Morgana in 1981.
- The Mosquito Coast as Mother Fox in 1986.
- Where Angels Fear to Tread as Lilia Herriton in 1991.
- The Snow Queen as Snow Queen (voice) in 1995.
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle as Mrs. Eve Tingle in 1999.
- Calendar Girls as Chris Harper in 2003.
- The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
- Arthur as Lillian Hobson in 2011.
- RED 2 as Victoria Winslow in 2013.
- The Fate of the Furious as Magdalene “Queenie” Shaw in 2017.
- Berlin, I Love You as Margaret in 2019.
- #Anne Frank. Parallel Stories as The Narrator (voice) in 2019.
- The Duke as Dorothy Bunton in 2020.
- F9 as Magdalene “Queenie” Shaw in 2021.
Helen Mirren Harry Potter
She made her debut as a ‘Harry Potter’ quiz host despite being ‘upset’ over the film’s omission. She is a quiz host with “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses” in 2021. The weekly, four-part series begins at 8 p.m. EST Sunday on TBS and Cartoon Network. She told Access Online in 2021 that “I never actually got to play in the ‘Harry Potter’ films. I don’t know why”, and “I’m rather upset about it quite honestly.”
Harrison Ford Helen Mirren Yellowstone
She played along with Harrison in the Yellowstone prequel series, titled 1923. The series focuses on a new generation of the Dutton family during the time of Western Expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression, which in Montana started a decade earlier.
Helen Mirren Fast and Furious scene | Fast and Furious
She has starred in the Fast & Furious film franchise The Fate of the Furious (2017), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), F9 (2021), and FX (2023). In the film, she plays Magdalene, the mother of Owen and Deckard Shaw.
Helen Mirren Hairstyles
She has appeared in amazing and different hairstyles in her career life. Mirren has appeared in Wavy Bob, Slicked Back, Swept Back, All the Volume, Sleek and Straight, Rose Gold Moment, Romantic Tendrils, Next-Day Chic, and Sexy Side Bangs to mention a few.
Helen Mirren Net Worth
As an actress, she has attained a decent fortune working since 1965. Mirren’s net worth is $100 Million.
Who Is Helen Mirren
Mirren is a renowned English actress. As an actress, she has attained numerous accolades with the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Kathleen “Kitty” Alexandrina Eva Matilda and Vasily Petrovich Mironoff. She is hitched to director Taylor Hackford, the two have no children as she stated she has “no maternal instinct whatsoever”.
How Old Is Helen Mirren
Mirren is 79 years old born on July 26, 1945, in London, England, in the United Kingdom.
How Much Is Helen Mirren Worth
She has earned an estimated net worth of $100 Million from working as an actress since 1965.
Mirren’s Social Media Account
Instagram – helenmirren