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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Saturday Night Live
Frasier
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Oscars
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Glee
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Parkinson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
The Early Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Third Watch
The Masked Singer
American Idol
The Jonathan Ross Show
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Twilight Zone
The One Show
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Top Gear
French & Saunders
Today
The Frank Skinner Show
Ruby Wax Meets
Human Resources
GMTV
The Fate of the Furious
On the Edge
Parkinson at 50
Barbie
Gosford Park
Fast X: Part 2
Fast X
BBC Play of the Month
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
MobLand
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
F9
The Prince of Egypt
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
The One and Only Ivan
Inkheart
Herostratus
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Collateral Beauty
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
RED 2
Blue Remembered Hills
White Bird
Cymbeline
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
O Lucky Man!
RED
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Monsters University
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
The Country Wife
Sniff
Caligula
Excalibur
Red King, White Knight
2010
Solos
Pride
Soft Targets
The Changeling
The Philanthropist
The Madness of King George
Anna
Winchester
The Clearing
Losing Chase
The Debt
Golda
The Hawk
Woman in Gold
Elizabeth I
The Good Liar
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
The Little Minister
Eye in the Sky
Caesar and Claretta
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Mrs. Reinhardt
Catherine the Great
The Queen
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
Prime Suspect
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Calendar Girls
1923
Production Credits
Catherine the Great
On the Edge
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