History Creator / HelenMirren

[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Dame]] Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 in London) is an English actress.

* ''Film/SavageMessiah1972'' as Gosh Boyle

Mirren is the only actress in history to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth (UsefulNotes/ElizabethI in the miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', UsefulNotes/ElizabethII in ''Film/TheQueen'' and in the play ''The Audience''). She won an UsefulNotes/{{Emmy|Award}} for the former and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] and a Tony Award for the latter. On the subject of awards, she is also the only performer in history to achieve both the American and British "Triple Crown of Acting"[[note]]the American variant consists of winning a competitive acting [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], Emmy and Tony; the British variant consists of a [[UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} British Acting Film Award and Television Award]] alongside a UsefulNotes/LaurenceOlivierAward[[/note]].

Mirren favors characters that are bold and ballsy, much like her own personality, in ways that some compare to Creator/KateWinslet. This has historically included her not being shy to [[MsFanservice shuck her clothes]] (also like Winslet); in 2010's ''Love Ranch'', she became the first major actor to appear nude on film in six different decades[[note]]She also did a nude-in-the-bathtub photo shoot in ''New Yorker'' magazine alongside the film, at age ''65''[[/note]].

[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Dame]] Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 in London) is an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning English actress. Her most famous role to date is her UsefulNotes/EmmyAward-winning performance as DCI Jane Tennison in the long-running TV series ''Series/PrimeSuspect''.

Like Creator/KateWinslet, Mirren favors characters that are bold and ballsy, much like her own personality. This has historically included her not being shy to [[MsFanservice shuck her clothes]] (also like Winslet); in 2010's ''Love Ranch'', she became the first major actor to appear nude on film in six different decades[[note]]She also did a nude-in-the-bathtub photo shoot in ''New Yorker'' magazine alongside the film, at age ''65''[[/note]].

Mirren is the only actress in history to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth (UsefulNotes/ElizabethI in the miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', UsefulNotes/ElizabethII in ''Film/TheQueen'' and in the play ''The Audience''). She won an Emmy for the former and an Oscar and a Tony Award for the latter. On the subject of awards, she is also the only performer in history to achieve both the American and British "Triple Crown of Acting"[[note]]the American variant consists of winning a competitive acting [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], Emmy and Tony; the British variant consists of a [[UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} British Acting Film Award and Television Award]] alongside a UsefulNotes/LaurenceOlivierAward[[/note]].

!!Mirren's more important roles include:

!!Her more important roles include:

[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Dame]] Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 in London) is an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning English actress.

She is known for, among other things, not being shy to [[MsFanservice shuck her clothes]]. Like Creator/KateWinslet, she favors characters that are bold and ballsy - much like Mirren herself. Her most famous role to date is the Emmy award-winning DCI Jane Tennison in the long-running, critically acclaimed TV series ''Series/PrimeSuspect''.

She is also noted for her exquisite taste in clothes. Everyone forgets this for most of the year, so come awards season the media has a collective asthma attack at how gorgeous her dresses are. Then they do it all again the next year. And so on and so forth ad nauseam.

She is the only actress in history to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth - UsefulNotes/ElizabethI in the miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', UsefulNotes/ElizabethII in ''Film/TheQueen'' and in the play ''The Audience''. She won an Emmy for the former and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] and a Tony Award for the latter, surprising absolutely nobody. She only needs one Grammy Award to complete her own EGOT (Even though she [[NonSingingVoice clearly can't sing]], she can win one for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album this]]).

She is one of the grandes dames of the English stage, alongside Creator/JudiDench, Creator/MaggieSmith, and Creator/EmmaThompson. Like many of her British cohorts, Mirren put in a stint at the Creator/RoyalShakespeareCompany.

She can definitely be seen as attractive even in her golden years. In 2010's ''Love Ranch'', she became the first major actor to appear nude on film in six different decades (and did a nude-in-the-bathtub photo shoot in ''New Yorker'' magazine alongside the film. At age ''65''!).

She has been married to American director Taylor Hackford since 1997.

** ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth''

* ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' (2022) as Hespera

She is the only actress in history to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth - [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I]] in the miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', UsefulNotes/ElizabethII in ''Film/TheQueen'' and in the play ''The Audience''. She won an Emmy for the former and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] and a Tony Award for the latter, surprising absolutely nobody. She only needs one Grammy Award to complete her own EGOT (Even though she [[NonSingingVoice clearly can't sing]], she can win one for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album this]]).

* ''[[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' (2005) as Deep Thought (voice)

She is the only actress in history to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth - [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I]] in the miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Elizabeth II]] in ''Film/TheQueen'' and in the play ''The Audience''. She won an Emmy for the former and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] and a Tony Award for the latter, surprising absolutely nobody. She only needs one Grammy Award to complete her own EGOT (Even though she [[NonSingingVoice clearly can't sing]], she can win one for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album this]]).

* ''Film/TheQueen'' (2006) as [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Elizabeth II]]

* PoorMansSubstitute:[[invoked]] It's something of a RunningGag to get Helen to fill in for UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen when she's not around. She did a parody of the Queen's Christmas Day speech on Graham Norton.

She is also noted for her exquisite taste in clothes. Everyone forgets this for most of the year, so come awards season the media has a collective asthma attack at how gorgeous her dresses are. Then they do it all again the next year.

* ''[[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse SHAZAM! - Fury of the Gods]]'' (2023) as Hespera

** She loved playing a machine-gun-wielding ActionGirl in ''{{Film/Red}}'' so much that she agreed to appear in any potential sequel immediately. There was a sequel, and she did star in it.

* ''Film/{{Red}}'' (2010) as Victoria Winslow

She gas been married to American director Taylor Hackford since 1997.

* ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]] Fury of the Gods'' (2023) as Hespera

[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Dame]] Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 in London) is an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning English actor.

She is the only actor in history to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth - [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I]] in the miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Elizabeth II]] in ''Film/TheQueen'' and in the play ''The Audience''. She won an Emmy for the former and an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] and a Tony Award for the latter, surprising absolutely nobody. She only needs one Grammy Award to complete her own EGOT (Even though she [[NonSingingVoice clearly can't sing]], she can win one for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album this]]).

[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Dame]] Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning English actor.

She is of Russian descent; her grandfather was a Tsarist aristocrat who was stranded in London after the Bolshevik Revolution. Her birth name is Mironoff, which her father anglicised to Mirren in the 1950s. While she does not speak Russian, she is fluent in French. Creator/TaniaMallet, who played Tilly Masterson in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', was her cousin.

* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' (1968)
* ''Film/AgeOfConsent'' (1969)
* ''Film/{{Caligula}}'' (1979)
* ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday'' (1980)
* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' (1981)
* ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' (1984)
* ''Film/WhiteNights'' (1985)
* ''Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover'' (1989)
* ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'' (1994)
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' (voice) (1998)
* ''Film/TeachingMrsTingle'' (1999)
* ''Film/{{Greenfingers}}'' (2000)
* ''Film/GosfordPark'' (2001)
* ''Film/CalendarGirls'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' (voice) (2004)
* ''Film/TheQueen'' (2006)
* ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'' (2007)
* ''Film/StateOfPlay'' (2009)
* ''[[Film/TheTempest2010 The Tempest]]'' (2010)
* ''Film/{{Red}}'' (2010)
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' (2010) (voice)
* ''Film/TheDebt'' (2011)
* ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'' (2011)
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' (2013)
* ''Film/{{Red}}'' 2 (2013)
* ''Film/{{Trumbo}}'' (2015)
* ''Film/EyeInTheSky'' (2016)
* ''Film/CollateralBeauty'' (2016)
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' (2017 -- present):

* ''Film/TheNutcrackerAndTheFourRealms'' (2018)
* ''Film/{{Winchester}}'' (2018)
* ''Series/CatherineTheGreat'' (2019)
* ''Series/WhenNatureCalls'' (2021)
* Shazam: Fury of the Gods

* GenderFlip: In ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' (2011) and ''[[Film/TheTempest2010 The Tempest]]'' (2010). Remarkably and coincidentally both roles were previously played by the same man, John Gielgud. Also remarkably and coincidentally, both films costar Creator/RussellBrand.