Helen Mirren
Birth Place: ENGLAND
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BIO
Dame Helen Mirren DBE is an English actor who became an American citizen in 2017. With a career spanning 60 years, she is the recipient of numerous accolades and is the only performer to have achieved both the American and the British Triple Crowns of Acting. Mirren has received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying the same character in The Audience, as well as three British Academy Television Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.
Mirren's stage performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre in 1965 provided her an opportunity to join the Royal Shakespeare Company, before making her West End stage debut in 1975. She subsequently achieved success in film and television, appearing in films such as The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009), receiving Academy Award nominations for each of those performances. 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 record of consecutive wins shared with Dame Julie Walters—and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She played 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 of the regnant Elizabeths on screen.
After her breakthrough role in The Long Good Friday (1980), Mirren appeared in other films including 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), The Tempest (2010), The Debt (2010), Hitchcock (2012), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Woman in Gold (2015), Eye in the Sky (2015), Trumbo (2015), and The Leisure Seeker (2017). She has also appeared in several action films such as Red (2010) and its sequel Red 2 (2013), as well as in the Fast & Furious film franchise The Fate of the Furious (2017), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), F9 (2021), and Fast X (2023).
In the Queen's 2003 Birthday Honours, Mirren was appointed a Dame (DBE) for services to drama, with investiture taking place at Buckingham Palace. She has received numerous honours including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2022.
Her other television roles include Door to Door (2002), Phil Spector (2013), Catherine the Great (2019), 1923 (2022), and MobLand (2025).
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Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker and James Wilkie Broderick at Golden Eve: The Golden Globes Honor Helen Mirren & Sarah Jessica Parker at The Beverly Hilton on January 06, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California.
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STAGE CREDITS
Movies
[ 1967 ] Advert Woman
[ 1968 ] Hermia
[ 1969 ] Cora
[ 1972 ] Gosh Boyle
[ 1976 ] Ophelia, Gertrude
[ 1979 ] Caesonia
[ 1980 ] Alice Rage
[ 1980 ] Beaty
[ 1980 ] Victoria
[ 1981 ] Morgana
[ 1984 ] Marcella
[ 1984 ] Tanya Kirbuk
[ 1985 ] Galina Ivanova
[ 1986 ] Mother
[ 1986 ] Ruth Chancellor
[ 1988 ] Lydia Neuman
[ 1989 ] Clemmie Jenkins
[ 1989 ] Georgina
[ 1990 ] Caroline
[ 1990 ] Frances Penny Bethune
[ 1991 ] Lilia Herriton
[ 1993 ] Annie Marsh
[ 1994 ] Geruth
[ 1994 ] Queen Charlotte
[ 1995 ] Snow Queen
[ 1996 ] Kathleen Quigley
[ 1997 ] Stella
[ 1998 ] The Queen
[ 1999 ] Mrs. Tingle
[ 2000 ] Georgina Woodhouse
[ 2001 ] Amy
[ 2001 ] Doctor
[ 2001 ] Mrs. Wilson
[ 2001 ] The Boss
[ 2003 ] Chris
[ 2004 ] Dominique
[ 2004 ] Eileen Hayes
[ 2005 ] Deep Thought
[ 2005 ] Rose, Mikey's'stepmother
[ 2006 ] The Queen
[ 2007 ] Emily Appleton
[ 2008 ] Elinor
[ 2009 ] Cameron Lynne
[ 2009 ] Phèdre
[ 2009 ] Sofya
[ 2010 ] Grace Bontempo
[ 2010 ] Ida
[ 2010 ] Nyra
[ 2010 ] Prospera
[ 2010 ] Rachel Singer
[ 2010 ] Victoria
[ 2011 ] Hobson
[ 2012 ] Alma Reville
[ 2012 ] Emerenc
[ 2013 ] Dean Hardscrabble
[ 2013 ] Queen Elizabeth II
[ 2013 ] Victoria
[ 2014 ] Madame Mallory
[ 2015 ] Colonel Katherine Powell
[ 2015 ] Hedda Hopper
[ 2015 ] Maria Altmann
[ 2016 ] Brigitte
[ 2017 ] Ella Spencer
[ 2018 ] Mother Ginger
[ 2018 ] Sarah Winchester
[ 2019 ] Betty McLeish
[ 2019 ] Margaret
[ 2019 ] Olga
[ 2019 ] Queenie
[ 2020 ] Dorothy Bunton
[ 2020 ] Snickers
[ 2021 ] Queenie
[ 2023 ] Golda Meir
[ 2023 ] Hespera
[ 2023 ] Queenie
[ 2025 ] Elizabeth
[ 2025 ]
TV Shows
Cara Dutton
DCI Jane Tennison
[ 2022-2025 ] Cara Dutton
[ 2022-2025 ] Cara Dutton
[ 2025-2025 ] Maeve Harrigan
Awards and Nominations
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Helen Mirren, The Audience
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Helen Mirren, The Audience
Helen Mirren, The Audience
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Helen Mirren, The Audience
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Helen Mirren, The Audience
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Helen MirrenThe Audience
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Helen MirrenMourning Becomes Electra
Helen Mirren, Dance of Death
Helen Mirren, Dance of Death
Helen MirrenOrpheus Descending
Helen Mirren, A Month in the Country
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Helen Mirren, A Month in the Country
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Helen Mirren, A Month in the Country
Helen Mirren , A Month in the Country
Helen MirrenAntony And Cleopatra
Videos
Video: Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan Return in MOBLAND Season 2 Teaser
by Josh Sharpe - 2026-07-09 10:29:55
Video: Alden Ehrenreich's Mom Convinced Bernadette Peters to See BECKY SHAW
by Josh Sharpe - 2026-06-18 11:49:37
Video: Alden Ehrenreich Reacts to His Tony Win and Shares a Nugget He Learned from Angela Lansbury
by Talking Tonys - 2026-06-07 23:21:01
Video: Richard Jay-Alexander Celebrates 50 Years in the Broadway Business
by Robert Diamond - 2026-04-03 13:00:22
Video/Photos: Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren in First Trailer for GOODBYE JUNE Family Drama
by Josh Sharpe - 2025-11-13 13:43:26
Video: Helen Mirren, David Hyde Pierce, and More in Trailer for THIS ORDINARY THING Doc
by Josh Sharpe - 2025-11-10 11:08:01
Video: Sarah Snook Reacts to Tony Win for Best Leading Actress in a Play
by Joey Mervis - 2025-06-08 21:30:18
Video: Rachel Zegler & Jack Antonoff Perform 'Man of the House' from ROMEO + JULIET
by Stephi Wild - 2024-10-30 08:04:09
Video: Watch Fran Drescher Interview Barbra Streisand for SAG/AFTRA's ACTOR TO ACTOR
by Blair Ingenthron - 2024-03-03 09:27:09
Video: Watch Barbra Streisand's Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech at the SAG Awards
by Michael Major - 2024-02-26 09:37:39
Video: Anne Hathaway Has Emotional Reaction to Barbra Streisand at the SAG Awards
by Blair Ingenthron - 2024-02-25 10:55:21
Video: Watch Ryan Gosling Sing His BARBIE Musical Number 'Just Ken'
by Michael Major - 2023-07-10 12:51:09
Video: Watch the New BARBIE Movie Trailer Featuring Dua Lipa's New Song
by Michael Major - 2023-05-25 12:28:37
Video: Watch the New BARBIE Trailer Featuring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Alexandra Shipp, Kate McKinnon & More
by Michael Major - 2023-04-04 12:26:06
VIDEO: Watch Rachel Zegler, Zachary Levi & Helen Mirren in the SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Trailer
by Michael Major - 2023-01-26 12:37:05
News
by Stephi Wild - Jul 14, 2026
National Youth Theatre has announced the initial wave of British stars of stage and screen returning to their NYT roots for a one night only staged performance, Letters to My Younger Future Self. Learn more here!
by Josh Sharpe - Jul 9, 2026
A new teaser trailer has been released for season two of MobLand, featuring Tom Hardy returning as fixer Harry da Souza, alongside Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren as the heads of the Harrigan family, Conrad and Maeve. Watch it now.
by Stephi Wild - Jul 6, 2026
Denville Hall, a residential care home for performing arts professionals, announced Theatre Gives Day, with ambassadors including Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen making curtain call appearances across West End venues to support its £26 million Centenary Appeal.
by Josh Sharpe - Jul 5, 2026
Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums.
by Josh Sharpe - Jul 1, 2026
Stage and screen star Sadie Sink recently concluded her London run in Romeo and Juliet and, in a new interview, shared her thoughts on theater etiquette and phone use from audience members.
by Stephi Wild - Jul 1, 2026
The Duke of York’s Theatre will be renamed The Tom Stoppard Theatre, paying tribute in the heart of the West End to one of the most influential playwrights in British theatre. Learn more here.
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 25, 2026
Yvonne Strahovski, David Corenswet & François Arnaud will star in Three Days of Rain on Broadway in February 2027, directed by Anna D. Shapiro.
by Franco Milazzo - Jun 24, 2026
The stories about Francis Albert Sinatra are endless. Two decades before Beatlemania hit the States, thousands of girls queued around the block so they could see the short, skinny kid from Hoboken sing while they cried, screamed and fainted. He had a thick New Jersey accent and a thin skin, punching one critic in the back of the head and physically threatening other members of the press. His friendship with mob members and their goons supposedly helped him out of a recording contract and for decades the FBI kept a file on him running to thousands of pages. He was close friends with Marilyn Monroe and gifted her a dog; she named it “Maf”, short for Mafia Honey, just to wind him up. At the age of 48, he dated a teenage Mia Farrow and the two eventually married in 1966.
by Josh Sharpe - Jun 18, 2026
Alden Ehrenreich visited Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, where he revealed that his mom convinced Broadway legend Bernadette Peters to come see him in Becky Shaw before it concluded its run. Check out the interview now.
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 12, 2026
Elizabeth Teeter, currently starring as 'Portia' in SOMETHING ROTTEN! at The Muny, will perform a solo show at Blue Strawberry in St. Louis, joined by her father Lara Teeter for a special appearance.
by Josh Sharpe - Jun 9, 2026
A Talent For Murder, the film adaptation of Joanna Murray-Smith's play Switzerland with Helen Mirren and newly minted Tony winner Alden Ehrenreich, will be coming to theaters later this year.
by Talking Tonys - Jun 7, 2026
Alden Ehrenreich took home the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Becky Shaw. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share his initial reaction!
by Josh Sharpe - Jun 4, 2026
Tony nominee Sadie Sink is set to star in and executive-produce The Marriage Plot, a new limited series from FX and Hulu based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.
by James Lindhorst - May 31, 2026
The stars of Broadway will shine this summer at Blue Strawberry Showroom and Lounge. Katy Geraghty, Tony Winner Paulo Szot, Elizabeth Teeter, and Tony Winner Matt Doyle will bring their solo shows to intimate midtown cabaret club.
by - Jun 7, 2026
Alden Ehrenreich has won the 2026 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for BECKY SHAW.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 26, 2026
Catherine Russell, known for Holby City and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will play Patricia Highsmith in Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds' in-house production of Joanna Murray-Smith's psychological thriller SWITZERLAND.
by Stephi Wild - May 7, 2026
The Muny announced the lead cast for SOMETHING ROTTEN!, including Tony winner Matt Doyle and Bryonha Marie, as the musical comedy makes its Muny premiere to close Season 108 in Forest Park.
by Michael Major - Apr 29, 2026
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Jamie Lloyd's revival of Evita, starring Rachel Zegler, will open on Broadway in 2027. The reimagined production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical will make its Broadway debut next spring.
by Stephi Wild - Apr 27, 2026
Riverside Studios has announced details of more special events being staged to celebrate the West London venue's 50th anniversary. Learn more about the lineup here!
by Marissa Faith Curley - Apr 25, 2026
The interactive comedy by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy is inspired by sketches from the old Carol Burnett Show. The show follows two sisters who want to add a little fun and excitement to their lives and they find it in Bingo.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Helen Mirren has appeared on Broadway in 3 shows.
Helen Mirren has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
Helen Mirren's first West End show was The Audience which opened in 2013
Best Leading Actress in a Play (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The Audience, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Audience, Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for The Audience, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Audience, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for The Audience, Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Audience, Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for The Audience, Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for Mourning Becomes Electra, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Dance of Death , Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Dance of Death, Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for Orpheus Descending, Outstanding Actress - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for A Month in the Country, Best Debut Performance (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for A Month in the Country , Performance (Theatre World Awards) for A Month in the Country, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for A Month in the Country and Actress of the Year in a Revival (Olivier Awards) for Antony And Cleopatra.
Best Leading Actress in a Play (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The Audience, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Audience, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Audience, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for The Audience, Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Audience, Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for The Audience, and Best Debut Performance (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for A Month in the Country.
