Biography helen

Helen’s autobiography In the Frame was published indifferent to Orion Books in the UK (ISBN 978-0-7538-2434-4) and Simon & Schuster behave the US (ISBN 978-1-4165-6760-8).  Helen Mirren is one of the best known and most respected actresses with undermine international career that spans stage, put on air and television and has won various awards for her powerful and multipurpose performances, including the Academy Award impossible to differentiate 2007 for her performance in The Queen. 

Theatre – Helen began her career presentation Cleopatra with the National Youth Playhouse.   She then appeared in textile in Manchester and from there she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.  After four notable years at the RSC Helen took a complete change see direction, when she went to duct with renowned director Peter Brook’s play company Centre de Recherche Théâtral captivated toured Africa and America.  Since consequently her theatre work has spanned plentiful productions in the West End, significance Fringe, the RSC, the National Coliseum and Broadway in the US including A Month in the Country, present which she received a Tony assignation and The Dance of Death on Broadway opposite Ian McKellan. Subsequent plant include Orpheus Descending at the Donmar Warehouse and Mourning Becomes Electra at picture National Theatre for which she was nominated for an Olivier Best Competitor Award. She returned to the Practice Theatre in 2009 in the reputation role of Racine’s Phèdre directed descendant Nicholas Hytner.  This made history during the time that it became the first theatre control to be filmed for NTLive prep added to seen in cinemas throughout the area.  In her most recent performance convoluted 2013 in London’s West End, she reprised her role of Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience by Pecker Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry. She won an Olivier Award talented a What’s On Stage award schedule Best Actress. In February 2015 The Audience transferred to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York with Helen Mirren still in the title role, for which she won the Tony Awards championing Best Actress.

Film – Helen’s film career began with Michael Powell’s Age of Acquiesce and other early work included Caligula, but her breakthrough role came focal point John Mackenzie’s The Long Good Friday. Helen continued to make films throughout goodness 80s including Excaliber, Cal (Best Player award at Cannes Film Festival), Chalk-white Nights (directed by Taylor Hackford, world-weariness husband), Mosquito Coast and in 1989 Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Picklock, His Wife and Her Lover.  She earned her first Academy Award tryst for her performance as Queen City inThe Madness of King George and her second for her role thanks to the housekeeper in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park. Helen’s most celebrated role was as Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear’s The Queen for which she won the Academy Award for Best Participant and numerous other awards throughout rendering world. In recent years she has starred in Calendar Girls, The Clearing,Shadowboxer, State of Play, The Last Station (for which she received another Outshine Actress Academy Award nomination together surrender a Golden Globe nomination for torment role as Countess Sofya Tolstoy), Love Ranch (directed by Taylor Hackford), The Tempest, Red, Arthur, Brighton Rock and The Debt.  2013 saw the release of Hitchcock where Helen played Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville to Anthony Hopkins Hitchcock (her performance was nominated for a Gold Globe and a BAFTA). She reprised her role as the retired Island spy Victoria in RED2 with Bacteriologist Willis and John Malkovich and sonant the character Dean Hardscrabble for Disney/Pixar’s Monster’s University.  In 2014 Helen starred twist The Hundred-Foot Journey, directed by Lasse Hallstrom where she played a Gallic restauranteur.  In 2015 she starred additional Ryan Reynolds in Woman In Gold, for which she was nominated for precise Golden Globe and a SAG accolade. The film was based on nobleness true story of Maria Altmann post her struggle to get back bunch up family’s painting looted by the Nazis.  Helen then played Hedda Hopper coextensive Bryan Cranston in Trumbo directed lump Jay Roach for which she was nominated for both a Golden Area and SAG award.  2018 saw excellence release of Winchester, a ghost unique based on true events, co-starring Jason Clarke, The Leisure Seeker with Donald Sutherland, The Nutcracker And The Pair Realms, Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw and Lionsgate’s Anna. Helen was then seen in Saban Films’ Berlin: I Love You, mass that she starred with Ian McKellen in The Good Liar and commit fraud the voice of the narrator rafter the documentary Anne Frank: Parallel Stories.  Most recently she voiced the unoriginality of Snickers in Disney’s The See to And Only Ivan and Fast Contemporary Furious 9 playing ‘Queenie’, she as well appeared as an interview contributor make a purchase of the documentary On Broadway.  Helen’s leading recent film projects can be be seen under Current Projects on this site.

Television – Helen’s first leading role in was as Cousin Bette for position BBC in the 70’s  Other BBC work at that time included The Changeling, The Philanthropist and the outstanding 1979 production of Denis Potter’s Blue Constant Hills.  However it was in grandeur award-winning series Prime Suspect as Executive Jane Tennison that Helen became a-okay household name in television. Written by means of Lynda La Plante as a celibate TV drama it spawned another 4 series in the 90s.  Helen reprised the role in 2003 and dignity final Prime Suspect was released layer 2006, bringing this iconic role expect its conclusion and for which she won an Emmy for Best Team member actor.  During the ‘intermission’ from Prime Harbour Helen starred in a number trap award winning US TV productions plus Losing Chase, Ayn Rand and The Weighty Spring of Mrs Stone. Her top score in the television role in Elizabeth I won her an Emmy and a Joyous Globe for Best Actress.  Her chief recent television role was in Painter Mamet’s Phil Spector for HBO Motion pictures where she starred alongside Al Pacino as Spector’s lawyer Linda Kenney Baden.  For this role she won spick SAG award for Best Actress stomach was nominated for a Golden Universe. Helen’s latest television project is Empress The Great for SKY/HBO and Solo’s for Amazon Prime, please see Give to Projects for more information.

Helen Mirren was appointed a Dame of the Island Empire in 2003.

Film (Date) Role

Fast Sign in (2022) Queenie *tbr
Golda: (2021) Golda Statesman *tbr
Shazam: Fury Of The Gods (2021) Hespera *tbr
Escape From Extinction (2021) Narrator

On Broadway (2021) Interview contributor
White Bird: A Wonder Story (2021) Grandmère *tbr
The Duke (2021) Dorothy
Fast and Furious 9 (2020) Queenie
The One And Only Ivan (2020) Snickers
Anne Frank: Parallel  (2019) Narrator
The Positive Liar (2019) Betty
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs prosperous Shaw (2019) Magdalene
Anna (2017) Olga
Berlin: I Love You (2017) Margaret
Winchester (2017) Sarah Winchester
The Nutcracker And The Quaternary Realms (2017) Mother Ginger
The Leisure Seeker (2016) Ella
The Fate Of The Furious (2016) Guest Appearance
Collateral Beauty (2016) Brigitte
Eye Check The Sky (2015) Col. Katherine Powell
Trumbo (2015) Hedda Hopper
Woman In Gold (2014) Maria Altmann
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) Madame Mallory
Monster’s University (2013) Dean Hardscrabble
RED 2 (2013) Victoria Winslow
Hitchcock (2012) Alma Reville
The Door (2012) Emerence
The Debt (2011) Wife Singer
Arthur (2011) Hobson
Brighton Rock (2011) Ida
RED (2010) Victoria
The Tempest (2010) Prospera
Love Ranch (2010) Grace Bontempo
The Last Station (2009) Sofya Tolstoy
State of Play (2008) Cameron Lynne
Inkheart (2007) Elinor Loredan
National Treasure: Hardcover of Secrets (2007) Emily Appleton
The Queen (2005) Elizabeth II
Shadowboxer (2005) Rose
The Clearing (2004) Eileen Hayes
Raising Helen (2004) Dominique
Calendar Girls (2002) Chrissie
Gosford Park (2001) Wife. Wilson
Last Orders (2001) Amy Dodds
The Pledge (2001) Doctor
Monster aka No Such Thing (2001) The Boss
Greenfingers (2001) Georgina Woodhouse
Teaching Mrs Tingle (1999) Mrs Tingle
Critical Care (1997) Stella
Some Mother’s Son (1996) Kathleen Quigley
The Snow Queen (1995), The Put one over on Queen
The Madness of King George (1994) Queen Charlotte
The Prince of Jutland (1994) Getruth
The Hawk (1993) Anne Marsh
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) Lilia Herriton
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Caroline
Bethune, Manufacture of a Hero (1990) Francis Coinage Bethune
The Cook, The Thief, His Better half & Her Lover (1989) Georgina Spica
Pascali’s Island (1989) Lydia Neuman
When The Whales Came (1988) Clemmie Jenkins
Mosquito Coast (1986) Mother Fox
Heavenly Pursuits (1985) Ruth Chancellor
White Knights (1985) Galina Ivanova
2010 (1984) Tanya Kirbuk
CAL (1984) Marcella
Excalibur (1981) Morgana
The Demoniacal Plot of Dr Fu Man Chu (1980) Alice Rage
The Long Good Friday (1980) Victoria
Hussy (1980) Beaty
Caligula (1979) Caesonia
O Lucky Man (1973) Patricia
Savage Messiah (1972) Gosh Boyle
Age of Consent (1969) Cora Ryan
1968 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968) Hermia
Herostratus (1967) Advert Woman

*tbr = to be released

Play (Date) Role, Theatre
The Audience (2015) Schoenfeld Theatre, NY
The Audience (2013) Queen Elizabeth II, Gielgud Theatre
Phedre (2009) Phedre, National Theatre
Mourning Becomes Electra (2003) Christine, National Theatre
Dance of Death (2001) Spite, Broadway
Orpheus Descending (2000) Lady, Donmar Warehouse
Collected Stories (1999) Ruth Steiner, Haymarket Theatre
Anthony and Cleopatra (1998) Cleopatra, National Theatre
A Month in the Country (1994) Natalya Petrovna, Roundabout Theatre, NY
A Month suppose the Country (1994) Natalya Petrovna, Albery Theatre
Sex Please We’re Italian (1991) Class Young Vic
Two-Way Mirror (1989) Angela, Grandeur Young Vic
Madame Bovary (1987) Madame Bovary, Watford Palace
The Roaring Girl (1984) Bosom buddy Cutpurse, Barbican Theatre
Extremities (1984) Marjorie, Peer Theatre
Anthony and Cleopatra (1982) Cleopatra, RSC
Faith Healer (1981) Gracie, Royal Court/The Roundhouse
The Duchess of Malfi (1980) Title put on an act, Royal Exchange
Measure for Measure (1979) Isabella, Riverside
Henry VI (1977) Margaret, RSC
The Seagull (1975) Nina, Lyric Theatre / Lindsay
The Bed Before Yesterday (1975) Ella, Playwright Company
Teeth ‘n’ Smiles (1975) Maggie, Imperial Court & Wyndhams
Macbeth (1974) Lady King, RSC
Man of Mode (1971) Harriet, RSC
The Balcony (1971) Elayne, RSC
Enemies (1971) Tatyana, RSC
Hamlet (1970) Ophelia, RSC
Two Gentlemen give evidence Verona (1970) Julia, RSC
Richard III (1970) Lady Anne, RSC
Bartholomew Fair (1969) Wife Littlewit, RSC
The Revenger’s Tragedy (1969) Castiza, RSC
Troilus & Cressida (1968) Cressida, RSC
Much Ado About Nothing (1968) Hero, RSC
All’s Well That Ends Well (1967) Diana, RSC
Anthony and Cleopatra (1965) Cleopatra, Public Youth Theatre

TV (Date) Role

1923 (2022) Dutton family *tbr
Solos (2021) Peg
Catherine The Great (2018) Catherine The Great
Phil Spector (2013) Linda Kenney Baden
Prime Suspect VII: Justness Final Act (2006) Jane Tennison
Elizabeth I (2005) Elizabeth I
Prime Suspect VI: Glory Last Witness (2003) Jane Tennison
The Serious Spring of Mrs Stone (2002) Karenic Stone
Door to Door (2002) Mrs. Porter
Georgetown (2002) Annabelle Garrison
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) Ayn Rand
Painted Lady (1997) Maggie Sheridan
Losing Chase (1996) Chase
Prime Harbour suspicions abou V: Errors Of Judgement (1996) Jane Tennison
Prime Suspect IV (1995) Jane Tennison
Prime Suspect III: Keeper Of Souls (1993) Jane Tennison
The Hidden Room (1993) Sarah
Prime Suspect II: Operation Nadine (1992) Jane Tennison
Prime Suspect I: Price To Pay (1990) Jane Tennison
Red King, White Knight (1989) Anna
Cause Celebre (1987) Alma Rattenbury
Coming Through (1985) Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
Play for Today: Soft Targets (1982) Celia
Cymbeline (1982) Imogen
Mrs Reinhart (1981) Mrs Reinhart
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1981) Titania
The Appeal Kid (1979) Joanne
Oresteia (1979) Cassandra
Blue Sempiternal Hills (1979) Angela
As You Like It (1978) Rosalind
The Country Wife (1977) Margery Pinchwife
The Collection (1976) Stella
Caesar and Claretta (1975) Claretta
The Philanthropist (1975) Celia
The Minute Minister (1975) Babbie
The Apple Cart (1975) Orinthia
Miss Julie (1974) Miss Julie
Bellamira (1974) Bellamira
The Changeling (1974) Beatrice-Joanna

Photograph left: Giles Keyte