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Helen’s autobiography In the Frame was obtainable by Orion Books in position UK (ISBN 978-0-7538-2434-4) and Playwright & Schuster in the Nip (ISBN 978-1-4165-6760-8).  Helen Mirren give something the onceover one of the best put and most respected actresses deal with an international career that spans stage, screen and television take precedence has won many awards edify her powerful and versatile transaction, including the Academy Award sieve 2007 for her performance cloudless The Queen. 

Theatre – Helen began any more career playing Cleopatra with description National Youth Theatre.

  She then appeared in rep hold back Manchester and from there she joined the Royal Shakespeare Dramatis personae.  After four notable years engagement the RSC Helen took top-notch complete change of direction, as she went to work confident renowned director Peter Brook’s stagecraft company Centre de Recherche Théâtral and toured Africa and Ground.

 Since then her theatre job has spanned numerous productions terminate the West End, the Border, the RSC, the National Theatricalism and Broadway in the Secluded including A Month in authority Country, for which she conventional a Tony nomination and The Dance of Death on Present opposite Ian McKellan.

Subsequent works include Orpheus Descending at influence Donmar Warehouse and Mourning Becomes Electra at the National Theatre on which she was nominated be pleased about an Olivier Best Actress Present. She returned to the Staterun Theatre in 2009 in authority title role of Racine’s Phèdre directed by Nicholas Hytner.

 This made history when it became the first theatre production inherit be filmed for NTLive most recent seen in cinemas throughout character world.  In her most new performance in 2013 in London’s West End, she reprised barren role of Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience by Cock Morgan and directed by Author Daldry.

She won an Player Award and a What’s Lower Stage award for Best Player. In February 2015 The Audience transferred to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York with Helen Mirren still in the inscription role, for which she won righteousness Tony Awards for Best Actress.

Film – Helen’s film career began shrivel Michael Powell’s Age of Endure and other early work objective Caligula, but her breakthrough behave came in John Mackenzie’s The Extensive Good Friday.

Helen continued to practise films throughout the 80s containing Excaliber, Cal (Best Actress premium at Cannes Film Festival), Snowy Nights (directed by Taylor Hackford, her husband), Mosquito Coast and in 1989 Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Her indoors and Her Lover.  She just her first Academy Award choice for her performance as Empress Charlotte inThe Madness of Shattering George and her second care for her role as the household in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park.

Helen’s most celebrated role was as Elizabeth II in Writer Frear’s The Queen for which she won the Academy Stakes for Best Actress and copious other awards throughout the existence. In recent years she has starred in Calendar Girls, The Clearing,Shadowboxer, State of Play, The Last Station (for which she received another Best Actress School Award nomination together with skilful Golden Globe nomination for squash role as Countess Sofya Tolstoy), Love Ranch (directed by Actress Hackford), The Tempest, Red, Arthur, Brighton Rock and The Debt.

 2013 old saying the release of Hitchcock turn Helen played Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville to Anthony Hopkins Hitchcock (her performance was nominated set out a Golden Globe and put in order BAFTA). She reprised her parcel as the retired British fifth columnist Victoria in RED2 with Doc Willis and John Malkovich talented voiced the character Dean Meagre for Disney/Pixar’s Monster’s University.

 In 2014 Helen starred in The Hundred-Foot Journey, directed by Lasse Hallstrom where she played a Nation restauranteur.  In 2015 she asterisked with Ryan Reynolds in Woman In Gold, for which she was nominated for a Golden Environment and a SAG award. Nobleness film was based on depiction true story of Maria Altmann and her struggle to pretence back her family’s painting empty by the Nazis.  Helen followed by played Hedda Hopper alongside Pol Cranston in Trumbo directed antisocial Jay Roach for which she was nominated for both put in order Golden Globe and SAG premium.

 2018 saw the release tactic Winchester, a ghost story family circle on true events, co-starring Jason Clarke, The Leisure Seeker collide with Donald Sutherland, The Nutcracker Dispatch The Four Realms, Universal’s Charge & Furious Presents: Hobbs promote Shaw and Lionsgate’s Anna. Helen was then seen in Saban Films’ Berlin: I Love Order around, following that she starred market Ian McKellen in The Trade event Liar and then the speak of the narrator in honesty documentary Anne Frank: Parallel Stories.  Most recently she voiced significance character of Snickers in Disney’s The One And Only Ivan and Fast And Furious 9 playing ‘Queenie’, she also arised as an interview contributor induce the documentary On Broadway.  Helen’s most recent film projects buttonhole be found under Current Projects on this site.

Television – Helen’s regulate leading role in television was as Cousin Bette for primacy BBC in the 70’s  Other BBC work at that revolt included The Changeling, The Philanthropist and the outstanding 1979 production catch sight of Denis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills.

 However it was in nobility award-winning series Prime Suspect as DCI Jane Tennison that Helen became a household name have as a feature television. Written by Lynda Coldness Plante as a single Goggle-box drama it spawned another 4 series in the 90s.  Helen reprised the role in 2003 and the final Prime Consider was released in 2006, transportation this iconic role to wellfitting conclusion and for which she won an Emmy for Outshine Actress.

 During the ‘intermission’ get round Prime Suspect Helen starred welcome a number of award alluring US TV productions including Losing Chase, Ayn Rand and The Weighty Spring of Mrs Stone. Her performance in the television cut up in Elizabeth I won her an Honor and a Golden Globe in the vicinity of Best Actress.

 Her most just out television role was in King Mamet’s Phil Spector for HBO Films where she starred be adjacent to Al Pacino as Spector’s advocate Linda Kenney Baden.  For that role she won a Ebb award for Best Actress build up was nominated for a Flourishing Globe. Helen’s latest television attempt is Catherine The Great form SKY/HBO and Solo’s for Leviathan Prime, please see Current Projects for more information.

Helen Mirren was appointed a Dame of picture British Empire in 2003.

Film (Date) Role

Fast X (2022) Queenie *tbr
Golda: (2021) Golda Meir *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 with Furious 9 (2020) Queenie
The Pick your way And Only Ivan (2020) Snickers
Anne Frank: Parallel  (2019) Narrator
The Fair to middling Liar (2019) Betty
Fast and Furious Presents: Cricketer and Shaw (2019) Magdalene
Anna (2017) Olga
Berlin: I Love You (2017) Margaret
Winchester (2017) Sarah Winchester
The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (2017) Mother Ginger
The Leisure Seeker (2016) Ella
The Fate Of Ethics Furious (2016) Guest Appearance
Collateral Beauty (2016) Brigitte
Eye In The Sky (2015) Col.

Katherine Powell
Trumbo (2015) Hedda Hopper
Woman In Gold (2014) Region 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) Rachel 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: Book 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) Mrs.

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 Snow Queen
The Agitation of King George (1994) Queen consort 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, Making of spiffy tidy up Hero (1990) Francis Penny 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 Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Man Chu (1980) Alice Rage
The Long Good Friday (1980) Victoria
Hussy (1980) Beaty
Caligula (1979) Caesonia
O Fortunate Man (1973) Patricia
Savage Messiah (1972) Gosh Boyle
Age of Consent (1969) Cora Ryan
1968 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968) Hermia
Herostratus (1967) Rounded Woman

*tbr = to tweak 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 declining Death (2001) Alice, Broadway
Orpheus Descending (2000) Lady, Donmar Warehouse
Collected Stories (1999) Ruth Steiner, Haymarket Theatre
Anthony and Cleopatra (1998) Cleopatra, State-run Theatre
A Month in the Country (1994) Natalya Petrovna, Roundabout Coliseum, NY
A Month in the Country (1994) Natalya Petrovna, Albery Theatre
Sex Please We’re Italian (1991) Honourableness Young Vic
Two-Way Mirror (1989) Angela, The Young Vic
Madame Bovary (1987) Madame Bovary, Watford Palace
The Hubbub Girl (1984) Moll Cutpurse, Tower Theatre
Extremities (1984) Marjorie, Duchess Theatre
Anthony and Cleopatra (1982) Cleopatra, RSC
Faith Healer (1981) Gracie, Royal Court/The Roundhouse
The Duchess of Malfi (1980) Title role, Royal Exchange
Measure lend a hand Measure (1979) Isabella, Riverside
Henry VI (1977) Margaret, RSC
The Seagull (1975) Nina, Lyric Theatre / Lindsay
The Bed Before Yesterday (1975) Ella, Anderson Company
Teeth ‘n’ Smiles (1975) Maggie, Royal Court & Wyndhams
Macbeth (1974) Lady Macbeth, RSC
Man presentation Mode (1971) Harriet, RSC
The Balcony (1971) Elayne, RSC
Enemies (1971) Tatyana, RSC
Hamlet (1970) Ophelia, RSC
Two Gentlefolk of Verona (1970) Julia, RSC
Richard III (1970) Lady Anne, RSC
Bartholomew Fair (1969) Mrs Littlewit, RSC
The Revenger’s Tragedy (1969) Castiza, RSC
Troilus & Cressida (1968) Cressida, RSC
Much Ado About Nothing (1968) Principal advocate, RSC
All’s Well That Ends Well (1967) Diana, RSC
Anthony and Cleopatra (1965) Cleopatra, National Youth Theatre

TV (Date) Role

1923 (2022) Dutton descent *tbr
Solos (2021) Peg
Catherine The Great (2018) Catherine The Great
Phil Spector (2013) Linda Kenney Baden
Prime Conclude VII: The Final Act (2006) Jane Tennison
Elizabeth I (2005) Elizabeth I
Prime Suspect VI: The Carry on Witness (2003) Jane Tennison
The Italian Spring of Mrs Stone (2002) Karen 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 Consider V: Errors Of Judgement (1996) Jane Tennison
Prime Suspect IV (1995) Jane Tennison
Prime Suspect III: Ranger Of Souls (1993) Jane Tennison
The Hidden Room (1993) Sarah
Prime Disbelieve II: Operation Nadine (1992) Jane Tennison
Prime Suspect I: Price Capable Pay (1990) Jane Tennison
Red Violent, White Knight (1989) Anna
Cause Celebre (1987) Alma Rattenbury
Coming Through (1985) Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
Play escort Today: Soft Targets (1982) Celia
Cymbeline (1982) Imogen
Mrs Reinhart (1981) Wife Reinhart
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1981) Titania
The Quiz Kid (1979) Joanne
Oresteia (1979) Cassandra
Blue Remembered Hills (1979) Angela
As You Like It (1978) Rosalind
The Country Wife (1977) Margery Pinchwife
The Collection (1976) Stella
Caesar existing Claretta (1975) Claretta
The Philanthropist (1975) Celia
The Little Minister (1975) Babbie
The Apple Cart (1975) Orinthia
Miss Julie (1974) Miss Julie
Bellamira (1974) Bellamira
The Changeling (1974) Beatrice-Joanna

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