Helen Mirren
Known for Acting · 236 credits
- Born
- 1945-07-26 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Helen Lydia Mironoff · Helen Lydia Mirren · Dame Helen Mirren · Ilyena Vasilievna Mironova · Ilyena Lydia Mironoff
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.
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
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
Frasier
1993
as Babette (voice)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)
TV Shows (73)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
Frasier
1993
as Babette (voice)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self / Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Winner
The View
1997
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Play for Today
1970
as Angela
American Idol
2002
as Self
Glee
2009
as Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
Leute heute
1997
as Self
MobLand
2025
as Maeve Harrigan
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Great Performances
1971
as Stella
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self (voice)
Human Resources
2022
as Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
1923
2022
as Cara Dutton
Third Watch
1999
as Annie Foster
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Margery Pinchwife / Beatrice-Joanna / Orinthia / Babbie
Screen Two
1985
as Annie Marsh
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Playhouse
1974
as Mrs. Reinhardt
The Masked Singer
2019
as Self - Clue Giver (video)
Today
1952
as Self
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
2001
as Self
Omnibus
1967
The Twilight Zone
1985
as Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Prime Suspect
1991
as Jane Tennison
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
GMTV
1993
as Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Princess Emilia
Thriller
1973
as Stella McKenzie
Live from E!
2002
as Herself
Documentary Now!
2015
as Helen Mirren - Host
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Rachel
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
Remembers…
2022
as Self
The Early Show
1999
as Self
French & Saunders
1987
as Herself
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Rosalind / Titania / Imogen
Solos
2021
as Peg
Catherine the Great
2019
as Catherine the Great
The Hidden Room
1991
as Sarah
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
2021
as Self - Host
This Morning
1988
as Self
Movies (163)
Fast X
2023
as Queenie
Barbie
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Monsters University
2013
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019
as Queenie Shaw
RED
2010
as Victoria
Anna
2019
as Olga
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2023
as Hespera
The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Queen (voice)
The Fate of the Furious
2017
as Queenie (uncredited)
F9
2021
as Queenie Shaw
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Emily Appleton
Caligula
1979
as Caesonia
RED 2
2013
as Victoria
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Elizabeth
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Deep Thought (voice)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
as Mother Ginger
Inkheart
2008
as Elinor Loredan
2010
1984
as Tanya Kirbuk
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Nyra (voice)
Excalibur
1981
as Morgana
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
as Georgina Spica
The Hundred-Foot Journey
2014
as Madam Mallory
Collateral Beauty
2016
as Brigitte
Raising Helen
2004
as Dominique Courier
Gosford Park
2001
as Mrs. Wilson
Winchester
2018
as Sarah Winchester
Eye in the Sky
2015
as Colonel Katherine Powell
The One and Only Ivan
2020
as Snickers (voice)
State of Play
2009
as Cameron Lynne
Goodbye June
2025
as June
Hitchcock
2012
as Alma Reville
White Bird
2023
as Grandmére
The Good Liar
2019
as Betty McLeish
The Long Good Friday
1980
as Victoria
The Pledge
2001
as Doctor
Woman in Gold
2015
as Maria Altmann
The Leisure Seeker
2018
as Ella Spencer
The Mosquito Coast
1986
as Mother Fox
White Nights
1985
as Galina Ivanova
The Queen
2006
as The Queen
Istintobrass
2013
as Self
Calendar Girls
2003
as Chris Harper
The Duke
2021
as Dorothy Bunton
The Hawk
1993
as Annie Marsh
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
1999
as Mrs. Tingle
Mrs. Reinhardt
1981
as Mrs. Reinhardt
The Comfort of Strangers
1990
as Caroline
The Debt
2010
as Rachel Singer
Pascali's Island
1988
as Lydia Neuman
Radioman
2012
as Self
Trumbo
2015
as Hedda Hopper
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Golda
2023
as Golda Meir
A Talent for a Murder
2026
as Patricia Highsmith
Arthur
2011
as Hobson
Critical Care
1997
as Stella
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
2026
as Self
The Collection
1976
as Stella
Brighton Rock
2010
as Ida
This Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
Greenfingers
2001
as Georgina Woodhouse
Age of Consent
1969
as Cora Ryan
The Madness of King George
1994
as Queen Charlotte
The Passion of Ayn Rand
1999
as Ayn Rand
Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
2026
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as May Sloan, Stewardess
Some Mother's Son
1996
as Kathleen Quigley
The Clearing
2004
as Eileen Hayes
Berlin, I Love You
2019
as Margaret
Door to Door
2002
as Mrs. Porter
Red Hot Shot
1970
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
as Karen Stone
Last Orders
2001
as Amy
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980
as Alice Rage
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Geruth
The Last Station
2009
as Sofya Tolstoya
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
An Accidental Studio
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The Tempest
2010
as Prospera
O Lucky Man!
1973
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
2023
as Self (archive)
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Phil Spector
2013
as Linda Kenney Baden
Herostratus
1967
as Advert Woman
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Lilia Herriton
The Apple Cart
1975
When the Whales Came
1989
as Clemmie Jenkins
Duse, the Greatest
2025
Red King, White Knight
1989
as Anna
Cause Célèbre
1987
as Alma Rattenbury
Shadowboxer
2005
as Rose
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
as Herself
Yes Madam, Sir
2009
as Narrator
Hussy
1980
as Beaty Simons
Savage Messiah
1972
as Gosh Boyle
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
2019
as Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Hermia
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
2011
as Self
A Friend in New Orleans
1992
as Herself
The Changeling
1974
as Beatrice-Joanna
The Door
2012
as Emerenc Szeredás
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
Best Ever Muppet Moments
2006
as Self
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
1993
as Frances Penny Bethune
On the Edge
2001
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
Pride
2004
as Macheeba (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Audience
2013
as The Queen
The Jazz Baroness
2009
as Nica - Narrator
No Such Thing
2002
as The Boss
Robert Altman in England
2002
as Self
The Snow Queen
1995
as The Snow Queen
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
as Self
Parkinson at 50
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1981
as Titania
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Caesar and Claretta
1975
as Claretta Petacci
On Broadway
2019
as Self
About Helen Mirren
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 f… With 236 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Helen Mirren has appeared in 163 films and 73 TV shows.
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Most Popular Helen Mirren Movies
- Fast X (2023) — as Queenie
- Barbie (2023) — as Narrator (voice)
- Monsters University (2013) — as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) — as Queenie Shaw
- RED (2010) — as Victoria
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