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Helen Mirren
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Also known as Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova, Helen Lydia Mironoff

Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.

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Helen Mirren is a British and American actress who works in film, television, stage, and voice acting. Born Elena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov in 1945, she began her career in 1966. She is educated at Middlesex University and speaks English. Her notable works include The Queen, Prime Suspect, The Passion of Ayn Rand, and Elizabeth I.

Mirren has received several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Theatre World Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress. Her spouse is Taylor Hackford, and her unmarried partner is Liam Neeson. She holds the honorific prefix Dame.

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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…

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  • A Talent for Murder — Patricia Highsmith2026
  • Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion2026
  • Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century — Self2026
  • The Thursday Murder Club — Elizabeth2025
  • Duse, the Greatest2025
  • Goodbye June — June2025
  • This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)2025
  • MobLand — Maeve Harrigan2025
  • Golda — Golda Meir2023
  • White Bird — Grandmére2023

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Instance of
human
Given name
Lydia
Gender
female
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
London
Spouse
Taylor Hackford
Occupation
film director
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Award
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
Notable work
The Madness of King George
Official website
www.helenmirren.com
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Helen Mirren
date of birth
1945-07-26
member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
nominated for
European Film Award for Best Actress
name in native language
Helen Mirren
honorific prefix
Dame
start of work period
1966-00-00
birth name
Elena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov
nickname
Dame Helen Mirren
unmarried partner
Liam Neeson
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Dame Helen Mirren (/ˈmɪrən/; born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.

Mirren started her career as a performer with the National Youth Theatre, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1965). She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her West End stage debut in 1975. She went on to receive the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for playing Elizabeth II in the Peter Morgan play The Audience (2013). She reprised the role on Broadway and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was Tony-nominated for A Month in the Country (1995) and The Dance of Death (2002).

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