Helen Mirren
Acting • Born 1945-07-26
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
231 credits
The Queen
Movie • 2006
The Queen
Sniff
Movie
The Spider
Inkheart
Movie • 2008
Elinor Loredan
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Movie • 1980
Alice Rage
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Tingle
The Clearing
Movie • 2004
Eileen Hayes
Raising Helen
Movie • 2004
Dominique Courier
2010
Movie • 1984
Tanya Kirbuk
Gosford Park
Movie • 2001
Mrs. Wilson
The Mosquito Coast
Movie • 1986
Mother Fox
Excalibur
Movie • 1981
Morgana
The Pledge
Movie • 2001
Doctor
Switzerland
Movie
Patricia Highsmith
The Madness of King George
Movie • 1994
Queen Charlotte
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Movie • 2007
Emily Appleton
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie • 2005
Deep Thought (voice)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Movie • 1989
Georgina Spica
Calendar Girls
Movie • 2003
Chris Harper
Caligula
Movie • 1979
Caesonia
Greenfingers
Movie • 2001
Georgina Woodhouse
The Prince of Egypt
Movie • 1998
Queen (voice)
Shadowboxer
Movie • 2005
Rose
No Such Thing
Movie • 2002
The Boss
Golda
Movie • 2023
Golda Meir
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Movie • 2010
Nyra (voice)
Cal
Movie • 1984
Marcella
Door to Door
Movie • 2002
Mrs. Porter
The Comfort of Strangers
Movie • 1990
Caroline
O Lucky Man!
Movie • 1973
Patricia / Casting Assistant
The Last Station
Movie • 2009
Sofya Tolstoya
Last Orders
Movie • 2001
Amy
The Long Good Friday
Movie • 1980
Victoria
Critical Care
Movie • 1997
Stella
Brighton Rock
Movie • 2010
Ida
The Tempest
Movie • 2010
Prospera
Monsters University
Movie • 2013
Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
White Nights
Movie • 1985
Galina Ivanova
RED
Movie • 2010
Victoria
State of Play
Movie • 2009
Cameron Lynne
Pride
Movie • 2004
Macheeba (voice)
Love Ranch
Movie • 2010
Grace Bontempo
Arthur
Movie • 2011
Hobson
The Debt
Movie • 2010
Rachel Singer
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
Movie • 2021
Self
Age of Consent
Movie • 1969
Cora Ryan
Prince of Jutland
Movie • 1994
Geruth
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Movie • 1999
Ayn Rand
The Door
Movie • 2012
Emerenc Szeredás
Some Mother's Son
Movie • 1996
Kathleen Quigley
Savage Messiah
Movie • 1972
Gosh Boyle
Hussy
Movie • 1980
Beaty Simons
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Movie • 1991
Lilia Herriton
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie • 1980
May Sloan, Stewardess
Goodbye Granadaland
Movie • 2013
Self
Yes Madam, Sir
Movie • 2009
Narrator
The Jazz Baroness
Movie • 2009
Nica - Narrator
Losing Chase
Movie • 1996
Chase Phillips
The Apple Cart
Movie • 1975
The Snow Queen
Movie • 1995
The Snow Queen
Hitchcock
Movie • 2012
Alma Reville
Cause Célèbre
Movie • 1987
Alma Rattenbury
RED 2
Movie • 2013
Victoria
Pascali's Island
Movie • 1988
Lydia Neuman
White Bird
Movie • 2023
Grandmére
The Hawk
Movie • 1993
Annie Marsh
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Movie • 2003
Karen Stone
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
Movie • 2011
Self
The Collection
Movie • 1976
Stella
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1968
Hermia
On the Edge
Movie • 2001
Distinguished Woman (segment "Happy Birthday") (uncredited)
Parkinson at 50
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Caesar and Claretta
Movie • 1975
Claretta Petacci
Phil Spector
Movie • 2013
Linda Kenney Baden
Heavenly Pursuits
Movie • 1986
Ruth Chancellor
Radioman
Movie • 2012
Self
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Movie • 2013
The Queen
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Robert Altman in England
Movie • 2002
Herself
Miss Julie
Movie • 1972
Miss Julie
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Movie • 2014
Madam Mallory
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
Movie • 1981
Self / Caesonia
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1981
Titania
Herostratus
Movie • 1967
Advert Woman
Berlin, I Love You
Movie • 2019
Margaret
The Changeling
Movie • 1974
Beatrice-Joanna
Red King, White Knight
Movie • 1989
Anna
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
Trumbo
Movie • 2015
Hedda Hopper
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Movie • 1993
Frances Penny Bethune
Woman in Gold
Movie • 2015
Maria Altmann
Fast X
Movie • 2023
Queenie
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Movie • 2005
Tiberia
When the Whales Came
Movie • 1989
Clemmie Jenkins
Eye in the Sky
Movie • 2015
Colonel Katherine Powell
Arabia 3D
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
Movie • 2006
Herself
The Little Minister
Movie • 1975
Babbie
Mrs. Reinhardt
Movie • 1981
Mrs. Reinhardt
The Philanthropist
Movie • 1975
Celia
Unity
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Hamlet
Movie • 1976
Ophelia / Gertrude
Barbie
Movie • 2023
Narrator (voice)
The Thursday Murder Club
Movie • 2025
Elizabeth
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
Movie • 2022
Therapist (voice)
Collateral Beauty
Movie • 2016
Brigitte
Long Night's Journey Into Day
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Blue Remembered Hills
Movie • 1979
Angela
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Movie • 2009
Phèdre
The Country Wife
Movie • 1977
Margery Pinchwife
Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
Movie • 2023
Self
Coming Through
Movie • 1985
Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie • 2016
Self - Performer
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie • 2015
Self (archive material)
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Movie • 2017
Self
The Fate of the Furious
Movie • 2017
Queenie (uncredited)
Winchester
Movie • 2018
Sarah Winchester
Red Hot Shot
Movie • 1970
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie • 2018
Mother Ginger
Soft Targets
Movie • 1982
Celia
As You Like It
Movie • 1978
Rosalind
The Leisure Seeker
Movie • 2018
Ella Spencer
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie • 1984
Self (uncredited)
Anna
Movie • 2019
Olga
The Pulitzer At 100
Movie • 2017
Self
Cries from Syria
Movie • 2017
Narrator
The Little Mermaid
Movie • 1987
Princess Emilia
The Good Liar
Movie • 2019
Betty McLeish
The Empty Space
Movie • 1975
Self
The One and Only Ivan
Movie • 2020
Snickers (voice)
Invocation: Maya Deren
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Children of God
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Cymbeline
Movie • 1983
Imogen
An Accidental Studio
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
Movie • 2019
Narrator
F9
Movie • 2021
Queenie Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Movie • 2019
Queenie Shaw
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
Movie • 2011
Sharon
The Duke
Movie • 2021
Dorothy Bunton
Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans
Movie • 2020
Grandmother Turtle
A Coffin for the Bride
Movie • 1974
Stella McKenzie
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Movie • 2006
Self
Escape from Extinction
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Istintobrass
Movie • 2013
Self
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Movie • 2020
Lip-sync Billy Bush
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
Movie • 2006
Self
The Making of Gosford Park
Movie • 2002
Self
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Movie • 2023
Hespera
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Movie • 2013
Self
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
On Broadway
Movie • 2019
Self
Duse, the Greatest
Movie • 2025
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Movie • 1973
Herself
Goodbye June
Movie • 2025
June
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Movie • 2009
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Movie • 1984
Herself
The Making of 'The Queen'
Movie • 2007
Self
This Ordinary Thing
Movie • 2025
Self (voice)
Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses
Movie • 2023
Self (archive)
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Top Gear
TV • 2002
Self
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
Third Watch
TV • 1999
Annie Foster
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Today
TV • 1952
Self
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Maddie Duncan (segment "Dead Woman's Shoes")
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self
Prime Suspect
TV • 1991
Jane Tennison
Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery
TV • 2001
Self
American Idol
TV • 2002
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Solos
TV • 2021
Peg
Elizabeth I
TV • 2005
Queen Elizabeth I
Play for Today
TV • 1970
The Frank Skinner Show
TV • 1995
Self
The Hidden Room
TV • 1991
Sarah
When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren
TV • 2021
Narrator (voice)
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
The Masked Singer
TV • 2019
Self - Clue Giver (video)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
Thriller
TV • 1973
Stella McKenzie
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Live from E!
TV • 2002
Herself
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses
TV • 2021
Self - Host
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Beatrice-Joanna
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Orinthia
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Babbie
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Margery Pinchwife
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Frasier
TV • 1993
Babette (voice)
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV • 2014
Self (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self – Actor
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
All the Queen's Horses with Alan Titchmarsh
TV • 2009
Self
Human Resources
TV • 2022
Shame Wizard Rita St. Swithens (voice)
1923
TV • 2022
Cara Dutton
Secrets of the Museum
TV • 2020
Queen Elizabeth (archive)
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Princess Emilia
Catherine the Great
TV • 2019
Catherine the Great
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self - Guest
Painted Lady
TV • 1997
Maggie Sheridan
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Documentary Now!
TV • 2015
Helen Mirren - Host
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self - Guest
Glee
TV • 2009
Becky's Inner Voice (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Angela
Ruby Wax Meets
TV • 1996
French & Saunders
TV • 1987
Herself
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Stella
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
TV • 2023
Self
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
MobLand
TV • 2025
Maeve Harrigan
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2023
Self
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Mrs. Reinhardt
Cousin Bette
TV • 1971
Valérie Marneffe
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Winner
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self