Helen Mirren

Acting

Born 1945-07-26 Hammersmith, London, England, UK 237 credits Academy Awards 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 4 Golden Globe Awards 5 BAFTA Awards 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards 4 Tony Awards 1 European Film Award for Best Actress 1 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

2010 Best Actress Nominated The Last Station
2007 Best Actress Won The Queen
2002 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Gosford Park
1995 Best Supporting Actress Nominated The Madness of King George

Primetime Emmy Awards 4 won

2007 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Prime Suspect
2006 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Elizabeth I
1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won The Passion of Ayn Rand
1996 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Prime Suspect

Golden Globe Awards 5 won

2025 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Won
2007 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The Queen
2007 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Elizabeth I
2006 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The Queen
1997 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Losing Chase

BAFTA Awards 2 won

2007 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won The Queen
1994 Best Actress Won Prime Suspect

Screen Actors Guild Awards 4 won

2014 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won Phil Spector
2007 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Won The Queen
2007 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won Elizabeth I
2002 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Won Gosford Park

Tony Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

2015 Best Actress in a Play Won The Audience
2002 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
1995 Best Actress in a Play Nominated

European Film Award for Best Actress 1 won · 1 nominated

2007 Best Actress Won The Queen
2003 Best Actress Nominated Calendar Girls

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress 2 won

1995 Best Actress Won The Madness of King George
1984 Best Actress Won Cal

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 won

— Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Won

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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.