Helen Mirren
Known for Acting · 237 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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self / 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 (67)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self / 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)
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Winner
Glee
2009
as Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Third Watch
1999
as Annie Foster
Great Performances
1971
as Stella
Play for Today
1970
as Angela
The View
1997
as Self
American Idol
2002
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
1923
2022
as Cara Dutton
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self (voice)
The Twilight Zone
1985
as Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Margery Pinchwife / Beatrice-Joanna / Orinthia / Babbie
Leute heute
1997
as Self
MobLand
2025
as Maeve Harrigan
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
The Masked Singer
2019
as Self - Clue Giver (video)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
Playhouse
1974
as Mrs. Reinhardt
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
Omnibus
1967
Prime Suspect
1991
as Jane Tennison
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Princess Emilia
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
GMTV
1993
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Thriller
1973
as Stella McKenzie
Remembers…
2022
as Self
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Documentary Now!
2015
as Helen Mirren - Host
Human Resources
2022
as Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
as Self
Live from E!
2002
as Herself
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
French & Saunders
1987
as Herself
Today
1952
as Self
Solos
2021
as Peg
Catherine the Great
2019
as Catherine the Great
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery
2001
as Self
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Rachel
The Hidden Room
1991
as Sarah
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
2021
as Self - Host
Elizabeth I
2005
as Queen Elizabeth I
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Secrets of the Museum
2020
as Queen Elizabeth (archive)
Ruby Wax Meets
1996
This Morning
1988
as Self
Movies (170)
Barbie
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Fast X
2023
as Queenie
The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Queen (voice)
Caligula
1979
as Caesonia
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019
as Queenie Shaw
Monsters University
2013
as Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
The Fate of the Furious
2017
as Queenie (uncredited)
F9
2021
as Queenie Shaw
Anna
2019
as Olga
RED
2010
as Victoria
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2023
as Hespera
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Emily Appleton
RED 2
2013
as Victoria
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Deep Thought (voice)
Excalibur
1981
as Morgana
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
as Mother Ginger
Inkheart
2008
as Elinor Loredan
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Nyra (voice)
2010
1984
as Tanya Kirbuk
Gosford Park
2001
as Mrs. Wilson
The Thursday Murder Club
2025
as Elizabeth
Eye in the Sky
2015
as Colonel Katherine Powell
State of Play
2009
as Cameron Lynne
Collateral Beauty
2016
as Brigitte
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
as Georgina Spica
The Queen
2006
as The Queen
Winchester
2018
as Sarah Winchester
The Good Liar
2019
as Betty McLeish
Arthur
2011
as Hobson
White Bird
2023
as Grandmére
The One and Only Ivan
2020
as Snickers (voice)
The Pledge
2001
as Doctor
Goodbye June
2025
as June
Woman in Gold
2015
as Maria Altmann
Raising Helen
2004
as Dominique Courier
Trumbo
2015
as Hedda Hopper
The Long Good Friday
1980
as Victoria
The Hundred-Foot Journey
2014
as Madam Mallory
Hitchcock
2012
as Alma Reville
White Nights
1985
as Galina Ivanova
The Debt
2010
as Rachel Singer
The Mosquito Coast
1986
as Mother Fox
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
1999
as Mrs. Tingle
Radioman
2012
as Self
The Madness of King George
1994
as Queen Charlotte
Golda
2023
as Golda Meir
The Last Station
2009
as Sofya Tolstoya
Calendar Girls
2003
as Chris Harper
Phil Spector
2013
as Linda Kenney Baden
The Duke
2021
as Dorothy Bunton
The Tempest
2010
as Prospera
The Leisure Seeker
2018
as Ella Spencer
Istintobrass
2013
as Self
The Clearing
2004
as Eileen Hayes
The Comfort of Strangers
1990
as Caroline
Cal
1984
as Marcella
Age of Consent
1969
as Cora Ryan
Shadowboxer
2005
as Rose
Door to Door
2002
as Mrs. Porter
Critical Care
1997
as Stella
O Lucky Man!
1973
as Patricia / Casting Assistant
Love Ranch
2010
as Grace Bontempo
Pride
2004
as Macheeba (voice)
Hussy
1980
as Beaty Simons
Berlin, I Love You
2019
as Margaret
This Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
Some Mother's Son
1996
as Kathleen Quigley
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Lilia Herriton
Last Orders
2001
as Amy
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as May Sloan, Stewardess
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Geruth
Greenfingers
2001
as Georgina Woodhouse
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
2011
as Self
On Broadway
2019
as Self
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
as Karen Stone
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980
as Alice Rage
Brighton Rock
2010
as Ida
The Collection
1976
as Stella
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009
as Phèdre
The Hawk
1993
as Annie Marsh
National Theatre Live: The Audience
2013
as The Queen
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
2019
as Narrator
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
as Self (archive footage)
The Snow Queen
1995
as The Snow Queen
Herostratus
1967
as Advert Woman
On the Edge
2001
as Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
The Door
2012
as Emerenc Szeredás
Sniff
as The Spider
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
2022
as Therapist (voice)
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
as Self
Red King, White Knight
1989
as Anna
Parkinson at 50
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Cries from Syria
2017
as Narrator
Coming Through
1985
as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
The Changeling
1974
as Beatrice-Joanna
The Philanthropist
1975
as Celia
Heavenly Pursuits
1986
as Ruth Chancellor
Savage Messiah
1972
as Gosh Boyle
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
as Self
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
as Self (uncredited)
Red Hot Shot
1970
An Accidental Studio
2019
as Self (archive footage)
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
2011
as Sharon
Losing Chase
1996
as Chase Phillips
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
2014
as Narrator
Switzerland
2026
as Patricia Highsmith
When the Whales Came
1989
as Clemmie Jenkins
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
as Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Hermia
Soft Targets
1982
as Celia
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
as Lip-sync Billy Bush
No Such Thing
2002
as The Boss
Pascali's Island
1988
as Lydia Neuman
As You Like It
1978
as Rosalind
Goodbye Granadaland
2013
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 237 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Helen Mirren has appeared in 170 films and 67 TV shows.
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Most Popular Helen Mirren Movies
- Barbie (2023) — as Narrator (voice)
- Fast X (2023) — as Queenie
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) — as Queen (voice)
- Caligula (1979) — as Caesonia
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) — as Queenie Shaw
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