Helen Mirren
Acting
🎂 1945-07-26
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(230)
Maeve Harrigan
2025
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self - Guest
2007
Babette (voice)
1993
Self
2019
Queenie Shaw
2023
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Self
2002
Self
2015
Self - Guest
2006
1970
Angela
1970
Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
2009
Annie Foster
1999
Cara Dutton
2022
Narrator (voice)
2023
Self (voice)
2014
Stella
1971
Self
1997
Self
2002
Self
1997
Beatrice-Joanna
1965
Orinthia
1965
Babbie
1965
Margery Pinchwife
1965
Queenie Shaw
2019
Self - Guest
1988
Self
2015
Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
2013
Self
1992
Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
1985
Queenie Shaw
Self
1978
Queenie (uncredited)
2017
Mrs. Reinhardt
1974
Clue Giver (video)
2019
Self - Guest
1993
Jane Tennison
1991
Self
1998
Self
2011
Queenie Shaw
2021
Self
1953
Self – Actor
2022
Hespera
2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
Self
1984
Caesonia
1979
Queen (voice)
1998
Princess Emilia
1982
Victoria
2010
Victoria
2013
Mother Ginger
2018
Emily Appleton
2007
Stella McKenzie
1973
Olga
2019
Self
2001
Self
2023
Herself
2002
Morgana
1981
Doctor
2001
Helen Mirren - Host
2015
Snickers (voice)
2020
Self
1993
Elizabeth Best
2025
Narrator (voice)
2004
Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
2022
Brigitte
2016
Deep Thought (voice)
2005
Elinor Loredan
2008
Self
1995
Ayn Rand
1999
Self (archive footage)
2014
Nyra (voice)
2010
Self - Guest
2001
Peg
2021
Tanya Kirbuk
1984
Herself
1987
Catherine the Great
2019
Cameron Lynne
2009
Mrs. Reinhardt
1981
Colonel Katherine Powell
2015
Dominique Courier
2004
Mother Fox
1986
Herself
1973
Grandmére
2023
Mrs. Wilson
2001
Self
2007
Alma Reville
2012
The Spider
Hobson
2011
Mrs. Porter
2002
Betty McLeish
2019
Hedda Hopper
2015
Self - Host
2021
Queen Elizabeth I
2005
Stella
1976
The Queen
2006
Imogen
1983
Madam Mallory
2014
Beauty Pageant Contestant (uncredited)
1966
Narrator (voice)
2015
Margaret
2019
Linda Kenney Baden
2013
Dorothy Bunton
2021
Georgina Spica
1989
Victoria
1980
Mrs. Tingle
1999
Rachel Singer
2010
Maria Altmann
2015
Queen Charlotte
1994
Sarah Winchester
2018
Self
2023
Self (archive footage)
2021
Patricia / Casting Assistant
1973
Prospera
2010
Tiberia
2005
Galina Ivanova
1985
Self
2013
Sofya Tolstoya
2009
Self
2013
The Queen
2013
Lip-sync Billy Bush
2020
1996
Self
2019
Eileen Hayes
2004
Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
2001
Alma Rattenbury
1987
Self (archive footage)
2021
Self (archive footage)
2019
Marcella
1984
Maggie Sheridan
1997
Princess Emilia
1987
Self
2012
Ella Spencer
2018
2009
Babbie
1975
Golda Meir
2023
May Sloan, Stewardess
1980
Rose
2005
Self
1952
Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
1985
Karen Stone
2003
Lilia Herriton
1991
Self
2002
Macheeba (voice)
2004
Caroline
1990
Beatrice-Joanna
1974
Margery Pinchwife
1977
Chris Harper
2003
Self
2023
Beaty Simons
1980
Kathleen Quigley
1996
Sharon
2011
Geruth
1994
Patricia Highsmith
Self (uncredited)
1984
1976
Amy
2001
Herself
2006
Rosalind
1978
Hermia
1968
Titania
1981
Self
2021
Ruth Chancellor
1986
Stella
1997
Georgina Woodhouse
2001
Queen Elizabeth (archive)
2020
Chase Phillips
1996
Gosh Boyle
1972
Alice Rage
1980
Cora Ryan
1969
Miss Julie
1972
Celia
1982
Self - Performer
2016
Sarah
1991
Ida
2010
Grace Bontempo
2010
Anna
1989
Annie Marsh
1993
Self
2011
Self
1988
1984
1970
The Snow Queen
1995
Self / Caesonia
1981
Self (archive material)
2015
Celia
1975
Narrator
2019
Self
2009
Angela
1979
Self
1999
Self (archive footage)
1999
The Boss
2002
Narrator
1986
Valérie Marneffe
1971
Narrator (voice)
2021
Advert Woman
1967
Lydia Neuman
1988
Self
2006
Narrator
2017
Self
2013
Narrator (voice)
2021
Self
2017
Frances Penny Bethune
1993
Claretta Petacci
1975
Self
2009
Nica - Narrator
2009
Narrator (voice)
2010
Self
2006
Emerenc Szeredás
2012
Narrator
1994
Clemmie Jenkins
1989
Self
2017
Therapist (voice)
2022
Grandmother Turtle
2020
2025
Narrator
2014
Elle-même (archives)
2023
Ophelia / Gertrude
1976
Herself
1984
Stella McKenzie
1974
Herself
2002
Narrator
2000
Self
1975
Narrator
2009
1975
Phèdre
2009