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). For her role as
police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series Prime
Suspect, which ran from 1991 to 2006, she won three consecutive BAFTA
Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994, and two Primetime Emmy
Awards.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 Hobbs & Shaw (2019).
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). For her role as
police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series Prime
Suspect, which ran from 1991 to 2006, she won three consecutive BAFTA
Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994, and two Primetime Emmy
Awards.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 Hobbs & Shaw (2019).
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