Helen Mirren's biography

Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff is 77 years old television actor born at Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She was born on Thursday 26th of July 1945. She is often nicknamed as Popper, Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, Dbe. According to year of birth 1945 she belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 26th of July means Helen is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

Helen is native english speaker. She is white british. She is citizen of United Kingdom. She is atheist. Helen´s primary profession is to be television actor. You can know Helen also as film actor, voice actor, stage actor, actor, film producer. She is recently known as film director. She received Academy Award for Best Actress The Queen in 2006

Helen Mirren's dad

Helen Mirren's father's name is Basil Mirren. Her father was born in 1913. Her father died in 1980. Basil Mirren was 35 years old, when this happened.

Helen Mirren's mom

Helen Mirren's mother's name is Kitty Rogers. Her mother was born in 1909. Helen Mirren was born when she was 36 years old. Her mother died in 1996. Kitty Rogers was 51 years old, when this happened.

Helen Mirren's family

Helen Mirren's husband

He is known as film director. Her husband was born on Sunday 31st of December 1944 in Santa Barbara.

Helen Mirren's ex husband

Helen Mirren's schools

We found 2 schools Helen attended. Complete list of schools: Middlesex University, St Bernard's High School and Arts College.

Detailed informations about Helen´s schools

She studied high school - St Bernard's High School for Girls (1963).

Helen Mirren's career

Her main focus is to be television actor. Helen is famous thanks to Excalibur, Prime Suspect, The Queen. You could see her also in The Passion of Ayn Rand, Elizabeth I, Cal, The Madness of King George, Losing Chase and many more. Helen is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Is Helen Mirren gay ?

She is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Helen Mirren's Awards

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.
Nominated for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance of "Orpheus Descending" at the Donmar Warehouse. [2001]
Nominated for Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance in "Mourning Becomes Electra" at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton Stage. [2004]
Nominated for Best Actress, Tony Award for "Dance of Death" by August Strindberg. [2002]
Nominated for Best Actress, Tony Award for "A Month in the Country" by Ivan Turgenev. [1995]
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.
Nominated for the 2002 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "Dance of Death".
Won Olivier's Award as Best Actress, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audition" (2013).
She was awarded the Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award as Best Actress for her roles in 'Teeth 'n' Smiles' and 'The Seagull' (1975).
She was awarded the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Debut of an Actress for her role in 'A Month in the Country' (1995).
Was the 130th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Queen (2006) at The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) on February 25, 2007.
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).
Won the Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience" on June 7, 2015.

Helen Mirren's Nominations

Helen was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The Madness of King George in 1994
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Gosford Park in 2002
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The Last Station in 2010
Helen was nominated for Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress for work Gosford Park in 2002
She was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actress for work Calendar Girls in 2003
She was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actress for work The Queen in 2007

What else you don't know about Helen Mirren ?

Helen´s middle name is Lydia Vasilievna.

What Helen Mirren has done for a first time

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).
First received her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card when she appeared in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), her American feature film debut.
Got her first acting experience with the National Youth Theatre.
She became a U.S. citizen in 2017 and voted in her first U.S. election in 2020.

Helen Mirren's quotes

[About herself] Being famous for being cool about not being gorgeous.
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
[About the Academy Awards] It's the creme-de-la-creme of bulls**t.
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.
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.
Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.
[In 2006] Being me right now is sort of amazing.
[on her role in National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)] I get half-drowned, jump across an abyss and fly. I loved every minute of it. Getting attached to wires and flying was the most glorious feeling. It's a lot easier than acting!
[on not having children] No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.
There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.
As you get older, naked stuff gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
My poshed-over voice was learnt and assimilated. I was an Essex girl.
You can't ask people: "Did you cast me in this because I won an Oscar?" They'd always deny it: "No! No! We would've had you anyway!" Liars!
I didn't cry when I got my Oscar [for The Queen (2006)], but I cried then [when applauded by baggage handlers at Heathrow Airport]. I had my Oscar in my bag, so I got it out. I was shameless, but they loved it.
I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that.
[on a 1970s interview with Michael Parkinson] Your jaw is on the floor watching it. He has always denied that it was sexist, but it was.
I was with my husband for years before we got married. It's nice to be married. I love it. And that took me by surprise. But there's really no essential difference to not being married.
[on filming RED (2010)] I should be going to the gym now but I just don't want to do it. I don't do anything like that regularly at all. But because I'm filming, I should.
I'm not by nature a supporter of the Conservatives [Party], but then the Conservatives are not what the Conservatives used to be. Except they are a bit, aren't they? They're all just bloody public schoolboys!
It's nice to look back and remember, and to think, "Wow! I've had a fantastic life, it's been brilliant!" Or else you think, "Oh, thank God that's all over!"
I try not to think of my own mortality, but that as I gets older it gets darker, there is no question about that. You just say: 'It's going to happen and it's going to happen to everybody'.
[on Lady Gaga] I love the way she's elevated pop to performance art, or dragged performance art down to pop, or maybe made a wonderful amalgam of the two.
We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.
If you wanted to teach someone who knew absolutely nothing about the British people, it would be very good to guide them to Shakespeare. You could see the foolishness, the humour, the brutality - it's all in almost every play.
I can't say no to an interesting role. I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted', and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure'.
People get together for reasons other than sex and, although it's important for most couples, it's not what makes marriages last. I think the power of partnership in marriage is under-recognized in our society. That's what makes marriages work, not sex.
There's no fake testosterone about Harrison [Harrison Ford]. It's just pure, natural maleness and it's very, very attractive.
I'm not going to be the first female Doctor Who (2005). Absolutely not. I absolutely wouldn't contemplate that. But I do think it's well overtime to have a female Doctor Who (2005). I think a gay, black, female Doctor Who (2005) would be the best of all.
All any of us can do is make the best of what we have and live with generosity and kindness. Now that is beautiful.
I'm an eternal optimist. I know that when I put my moisture on it probably does fuck all, but it just makes me feel better.
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty'. They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
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Helen Mirren's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Helen Mirren looks. We will focus on her height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. Helen is tall as 5' 4" (163 cm). Helen weights 145lbs (66 kg). Body build is slim. Her eyes are tinted blue. Her hair is shade of grey. If you are really curious, you may find interesting Helen´s shoe size is 9.

Helen Mirren