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 Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. Mirren attended St. Bernards High School for girls, where she would act in school productions. After high school, she began her acting career in theatre working in many productions including in the West End and Broadway.
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Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. Mirren attended St. Bernards High School for girls, where she would act in school productions. After high school, she began her acting career in theatre working in many productions including in the West End and Broadway.
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Her great-great-great-great-grandfather was field-marshal Kamensky, one of the Russian heroes of the Napoleonic wars.Has a tattoo of a star on her left hand, acquired at a Native American reservation in Minnesota.Lived with Liam Neeson for 4 years after meeting on the set of Excalibur (1981). Subsequently lived for further 4 years with British photographer and fashion designer James Wedge. Mirren first met Wedge when she posed for his cover photo for the July 11, 1971 edition of the "Observer" magazine titled, "Shakespearean Star Helen Mirren Shows How to Dress with Drama". Some of his erotica portraits of her appeared in her 2008 autobiography - "In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures".John Boorman said he cast her opposite Nicol Williamson in Excalibur (1981), against both of their protests, because he felt their dislike of each other made them perfect as rivals Morgana and Merlin.She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.Met husband-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights (1985). When the couple married in the Scottish Highlands, Hackford was dressed in a traditional Scottish tartan kilt.Became the third person, after Sigourney Weaver and Joan Plowright, to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year. The characters she played were both Queens of England, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II.Her paternal grandparents were Russian. Her grandfather, Piotr Vasilievich Mironoff, was a Tsarist aristocrat who was in London negotiating an arms deal during World War I when the 1917 Russian Revolution stranded him there. His wife and son (Helen's father) joined him in London. On her mother's side, she is of English descent.She is the only actress to play both Queen Elizabeth I (in Elizabeth I (2005)) and Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen (2006)).Used to work in Southend-on-Sea, Essex at an amusement park "The Kursaal" as a "blagger" to attract customers on to rides.She is quoted as being a naturist, telling the Radio Times "I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly people, beautiful people, old people, whatever. It's so unisexual and so liberating." In 2004, she was named "Naturist of the Year" by British Naturism. She said: "Many thanks to British Naturism for this great honour. I do believe in naturism and am my happiest on a nude beach with people of all ages and races!".Despite her Russian birth name and ancestry, she does not speak Russian, but is fluent in French.At the premiere of The Queen (2006) at the Venice Film Festival, her performance received a 5 minute standing ovation.She holds the record for second-largest "Best Actress" award sweep (40 wins) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), following Cate Blanchett (41 wins) for her performance as Jasmine French in Blue Jasmine (2013).According to an article in People Weekly (November 3, 1980) her tattoo is an American Indian symbol meaning "equal but opposite".Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Ren��e Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Mis��rables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).She was initially hesitant to sign on to RED (2010) due to film's graphic violence, but changed her mind upon learning of Bruce Willis' involvement.Placed her hand and footprint in cement in front of Graumann Chinese theatre on March 28, 2011.Played a Queen a total of six times: The Queen (2006), Elizabeth I (2005), The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Snow Queen (1995), The Madness of King George (1994), and Caligula (1979).She allegedly refused the C.B.E. (Commander of Order of the British Empire) in 1996.She has a curious fascination with facial scars, particularly on men, finding them quite sexy and mysterious, perhaps indicative of an intriguing chapter in a man's life. She actually sported a facial scar for her role in The Debt (2010).The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is 7 years, between The Madness of King George (1994) and Gosford Park (2001).She dedicated her BAFTA win for The Queen (2006) (for Best Actress in a Leading Role) to Ian Richardson for playing a huge part in her success story. She said (in her acceptance speech) that Richardson was very supportive towards her when she started out acting, and without him she may not have been so successful. She dedicated this award two days after Richardson died. Mirren and Richardson had first appeared together in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), Peter Hall's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (2007)Won 29 major awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), including all the awards that are considered the biggest (except Cannes). She was also nominated for 3 more awards for the same film.She and her husband Taylor Hackford are both Oscar-winners.Before marrying director Taylor Hackford in 1997, she had lived with him in Los Angeles since 1986.Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.She was considered for the role of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) that went to Meryl Streep.Was in consideration for the part of Sarah/Anna in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) but Meryl Streep, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.She named Anna Magnani as her acting idol.She owns houses in Los Angeles, London, and the south of France.She was awarded the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Debut of an Actress for her role in 'A Month in the Country' (1995).After first meeting on the set of Excalibur (1981), Helen and Liam Neeson lived together for 4 years, after which time she met husband-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights (1985).She won an Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).In preparation for her role as a retired Israeli Mossad agent in The Debt (2010), she reportedly immersed herself in studies of Hebrew language, Jewish history, and Holocaust writing, including the life of Simon Wiesenthal, while in Israel in 2009 for the filming of some of the movie's scenes.Was presented the 2,488th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame accompanied by her husband Taylor Hackford, two stepsons and Phil Spector (2013) director David Mamet (January 3, 2013).In 1990, Mirren stated in an interview that she is an atheist. In the August 2011 issue of Esquire magazine, Mirren said, "I am quite spiritual. I believed in fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.In 2012, Mirren was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork - The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover - to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.She was considered for Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979).In a GQ interview in 2008, Mirren stated she had been date raped as a student and had often taken cocaine at parties in her 20s, and until the 1980s. She stopped using the drug after reading the (since debunked) tabloid tale that Klaus Barbie made a living from cocaine dealing.Nominated for Best Actress, Tony Award for "A Month in the Country" by Ivan Turgenev. (1995)Nominated for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance of "Orpheus Descending" at the Donmar Warehouse. (2001)She succeeded John Gielgud in two roles after the characters' gender was changed: (1) Gielgud played Prospero in a 1957 production of "The Tempest" in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane while Mirren played Prospera in The Tempest (2010) (2) Gielgud played Hobson in Arthur (1981) and Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) while Mirren played Lillian Hobson in Arthur (2011).Won Olivier's Award as Best Actress, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audition" (2013).She has two roles in common with Judi Dench: (1) Dench played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), in which Mirren also appeared, while Mirren played her in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981) and (2) Dench played Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998) while Mirren played her in Elizabeth I (2005).According to the April 2007 issue of Architectural Digest, She and her husband have sold their estate in New Orleans, which still remains her favorite American city.Nominated for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance in "Mourning Becomes Electra" at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton Stage. (2004)First received her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card when she appeared in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), her American feature film debut.Her first cousin is Tania Mallet who was a James Bond girl in Goldfinger (1964). Her father and Tania's mother are brother and sister. Helen and Tania have enjoyed a warm relationship since childhood. Tania died in 2019, and a grieving Helen provided a loving and public tribute to "People" magazine about how her cousin was "kind and generous" and that she and her sister Kate will "miss her very much".Nominated for Best Actress, Tony Award for "Dance of Death" by August Strindberg. (2002) |
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Helen Mirren |
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Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte\'s Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, fro |
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Her great-great-great-great-grandfather was field-marshal Kamensky, one of the Russian heroes of the Napoleonic wars.Has a tattoo of a star on her left hand, acquired at a Native American reservation in Minnesota.Lived with Liam Neeson for 4 years after meeting on the set of Excalibur (1981). Subsequently lived for further 4 years with British photographer and fashion designer James Wedge. Mirren first met Wedge when she posed for his cover photo for the July 11, 1971 edition of the "Observer" magazine titled, "Shakespearean Star Helen Mirren Shows How to Dress with Drama". Some of his erotica portraits of her appeared in her 2008 autobiography - "In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures".John Boorman said he cast her opposite Nicol Williamson in Excalibur (1981), against both of their protests, because he felt their dislike of each other made them perfect as rivals Morgana and Merlin.She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.Met husband-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights (1985). When the couple married in the Scottish Highlands, Hackford was dressed in a traditional Scottish tartan kilt.Became the third person, after Sigourney Weaver and Joan Plowright, to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year. The characters she played were both Queens of England, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II.Her paternal grandparents were Russian. Her grandfather, Piotr Vasilievich Mironoff, was a Tsarist aristocrat who was in London negotiating an arms deal during World War I when the 1917 Russian Revolution stranded him there. His wife and son (Helen's father) joined him in London. On her mother's side, she is of English descent.She is the only actress to play both Queen Elizabeth I (in Elizabeth I (2005)) and Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen (2006)).Used to work in Southend-on-Sea, Essex at an amusement park "The Kursaal" as a "blagger" to attract customers on to rides.She is quoted as being a naturist, telling the Radio Times "I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly people, beautiful people, old people, whatever. It's so unisexual and so liberating." In 2004, she was named "Naturist of the Year" by British Naturism. She said: "Many thanks to British Naturism for this great honour. I do believe in naturism and am my happiest on a nude beach with people of all ages and races!".Despite her Russian birth name and ancestry, she does not speak Russian, but is fluent in French.At the premiere of The Queen (2006) at the Venice Film Festival, her performance received a 5 minute standing ovation.She holds the record for second-largest "Best Actress" award sweep (40 wins) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), following Cate Blanchett (41 wins) for her performance as Jasmine French in Blue Jasmine (2013).According to an article in People Weekly (November 3, 1980) her tattoo is an American Indian symbol meaning "equal but opposite".Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Ren��e Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Mis��rables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).She was initially hesitant to sign on to RED (2010) due to film's graphic violence, but changed her mind upon learning of Bruce Willis' involvement.Placed her hand and footprint in cement in front of Graumann Chinese theatre on March 28, 2011.Played a Queen a total of six times: The Queen (2006), Elizabeth I (2005), The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Snow Queen (1995), The Madness of King George (1994), and Caligula (1979).She allegedly refused the C.B.E. (Commander of Order of the British Empire) in 1996.She has a curious fascination with facial scars, particularly on men, finding them quite sexy and mysterious, perhaps indicative of an intriguing chapter in a man's life. She actually sported a facial scar for her role in The Debt (2010).The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is 7 years, between The Madness of King George (1994) and Gosford Park (2001).She dedicated her BAFTA win for The Queen (2006) (for Best Actress in a Leading Role) to Ian Richardson for playing a huge part in her success story. She said (in her acceptance speech) that Richardson was very supportive towards her when she started out acting, and without him she may not have been so successful. She dedicated this award two days after Richardson died. Mirren and Richardson had first appeared together in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), Peter Hall's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (2007)Won 29 major awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), including all the awards that are considered the biggest (except Cannes). She was also nominated for 3 more awards for the same film.She and her husband Taylor Hackford are both Oscar-winners.Before marrying director Taylor Hackford in 1997, she had lived with him in Los Angeles since 1986.Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.She was considered for the role of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) that went to Meryl Streep.Was in consideration for the part of Sarah/Anna in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) but Meryl Streep, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.She named Anna Magnani as her acting idol.She owns houses in Los Angeles, London, and the south of France.She was awarded the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Debut of an Actress for her role in 'A Month in the Country' (1995).After first meeting on the set of Excalibur (1981), Helen and Liam Neeson lived together for 4 years, after which time she met husband-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights (1985).She won an Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).In preparation for her role as a retired Israeli Mossad agent in The Debt (2010), she reportedly immersed herself in studies of Hebrew language, Jewish history, and Holocaust writing, including the life of Simon Wiesenthal, while in Israel in 2009 for the filming of some of the movie's scenes.Was presented the 2,488th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame accompanied by her husband Taylor Hackford, two stepsons and Phil Spector (2013) director David Mamet (January 3, 2013).In 1990, Mirren stated in an interview that she is an atheist. In the August 2011 issue of Esquire magazine, Mirren said, "I am quite spiritual. I believed in fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.In 2012, Mirren was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork - The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover - to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.She was considered for Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979).In a GQ interview in 2008, Mirren stated she had been date raped as a student and had often taken cocaine at parties in her 20s, and until the 1980s. She stopped using the drug after reading the (since debunked) tabloid tale that Klaus Barbie made a living from cocaine dealing.Nominated for Best Actress, Tony Award for "A Month in the Country" by Ivan Turgenev. (1995)Nominated for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance of "Orpheus Descending" at the Donmar Warehouse. (2001)She succeeded John Gielgud in two roles after the characters' gender was changed: (1) Gielgud played Prospero in a 1957 production of "The Tempest" in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane while Mirren played Prospera in The Tempest (2010) (2) Gielgud played Hobson in Arthur (1981) and Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) while Mirren played Lillian Hobson in Arthur (2011).Won Olivier's Award as Best Actress, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audition" (2013).She has two roles in common with Judi Dench: (1) Dench played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), in which Mirren also appeared, while Mirren played her in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981) and (2) Dench played Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998) while Mirren played her in Elizabeth I (2005).According to the April 2007 issue of Architectural Digest, She and her husband have sold their estate in New Orleans, which still remains her favorite American city.Nominated for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance in "Mourning Becomes Electra" at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton Stage. (2004)First received her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card when she appeared in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), her American feature film debut.Her first cousin is Tania Mallet who was a James Bond girl in Goldfinger (1964). Her father and Tania's mother are brother and sister. Helen and Tania have enjoyed a warm relationship since childhood. Tania died in 2019, and a grieving Helen provided a loving and public tribute to "People" magazine about how her cousin was "kind and generous" and that she and her sister Kate will "miss her very much".Nominated for Best Actress, Tony Award for "Dance of Death" by August Strindberg. (2002) |
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[About herself] Being famous for being cool about not being gorgeous.
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The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
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[About the Academy Awards] It's the creme-de-la-creme of bulls**t.
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Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. I can't stand it when they behave like solicitors from Penge. I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.
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All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(1995) Stage: Appeared in Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country," on Broadway. NOTE: She was awarded a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, a Drama Desk Award nomination and was awarded the Theatre World Award.
(2004) TV commercial: M |
| Spouse: |
Taylor Hackford (December 31, 1997 - present) |
| Children: |
No ChildrenRio HackfordAlex Hackford |
| Parents: |
Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Mironoff (Rogers)
Vasiliy Petrovich Mironoff |
| Relatives: |
Peter Basil Mironoff (Sibling)
Katherine Mironoff (Sibling)
Tania Mallet (Cousin) |
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