From career breakthroughs to professional milestones, explore how Helen Mirren made an impact.
Dame Helen Mirren is a highly acclaimed English actor with a career spanning six decades. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including an Academy Award, multiple BAFTA, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards, as well as Olivier and Tony Awards. Her contributions to the film and theatre industry have been recognized with honors such as the BAFTA Fellowship, the Honorary Golden Bear, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Since 2022, she portrays Cara Dutton in the Yellowstone spinoff 1923, which also features Harrison Ford and Timothy Dalton.
While working on Excalibur in 1981, Helen Mirren met and began a relationship with Liam Neeson, and she was instrumental in him getting an agent.
In 1990, Helen Mirren worked with Donald Sutherland on "Bethune: The Making of a Hero", before reuniting in 2017 for "The Leisure Seeker".
In 1994, Helen Mirren portrayed Charlotte in "The Madness of King George".
In 1999, Helen Mirren portrayed Ayn Rand in the television film "The Passion of Ayn Rand," a performance for which she won an Emmy Award.
In 2000, Helen Mirren starred in "Greenfingers" and "The Pledge", and she acted in "No Such Thing".
In 2002, Helen Mirren starred in "Door to Door", a television film.
In November 2003, Helen Mirren starred as Christine Mannon in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" at the National Theatre, directed by Howard Davies, receiving widespread praise.
In 2003, Helen Mirren starred in "Calendar Girls" and "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", receiving critical acclaim and award nominations.
In 2003, Helen Mirren starred in "Calendar Girls" with Julie Walters.
In 2004, Helen Mirren appeared in "The Clearing", "Pride", and "Raising Helen".
In 2005, Helen Mirren appeared in "Shadowboxer" and provided the voice for the supercomputer Deep Thought in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
In 2005, Helen Mirren played Queen Elizabeth I in a television serial, earning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
In 2006, Helen Mirren portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen".
In 2006, Helen Mirren starred in "The Queen", winning an Academy Award for Best Actress.
On September 16, 2007, Helen Mirren won another Emmy Award for her role in "Prime Suspect: The Final Act".
In July 2009, Helen Mirren played the title role in Jean Racine's "Phèdre" at the National Theatre, and the production was staged at the Epidaurus amphitheatre on July 11th and 12th, 2009.
In 2009, while filming "The Debt" in Israel, Helen Mirren immersed herself in studies of Hebrew language, Jewish history, and Holocaust writing.
In September 2010, "Brighton Rock", starring Helen Mirren, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, receiving mixed reviews. Also, her biggest critical and commercial success of the year was Robert Schwentke's ensemble action comedy Red.
In 2010, Helen Mirren appeared in five films, including "Love Ranch", directed by her husband Taylor Hackford, and Julie Taymor's "The Tempest", where she played Prospera.
In 2012, Helen Mirren played Alfred Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, in the biopic "Hitchcock". Also in 2012, Helen Mirren starred in The Door.
On February 15, 2013, Helen Mirren began her turn as Elizabeth II in the World Premiere of Peter Morgan's "The Audience" at the West End's Gielgud Theatre.
In 2013, Helen Mirren replaced Bette Midler in "Phil Spector", voiced Dean Abigail Hardscrabble in Pixar's "Monsters University", and reprised her role in "Red 2".
In 2014, Helen Mirren starred in "The Hundred-Foot Journey", receiving positive reviews and a Golden Globe nomination.
On June 7, 2015, Helen Mirren won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience", completing the US "Triple Crown of Acting".
In 2015, Helen Mirren starred in "Woman in Gold", "Eye in the Sky", and "Trumbo", earning critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination for "Trumbo".
In 2016, Helen Mirren starred in "Collateral Beauty", a film about a man coping with his daughter's death, which received largely negative reviews.
In 2017, Helen Mirren narrated the documentary "Cries from Syria" and made an uncredited cameo in "The Fate of the Furious".
In 2018, Helen Mirren played Sarah Winchester in "Winchester" and Mother Ginger in "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms".
In 2019, Helen Mirren appeared in "Berlin, I Love You", "Anna", and "Hobbs & Shaw".
In March 2021, Helen Mirren was cast as the villain Hespera in "Shazam! Fury of the Gods".
In April 2021, Helen Mirren participated in the music video "La Vacinada" by Checco Zalone.
In 2022, Helen Mirren appeared in Kendrick Lamar's "Count Me Out" music video and began portraying Cara Dutton in the Yellowstone spinoff "1923".
In 2023, Helen Mirren portrayed Golda Meir in the biopic "Golda" and narrated Greta Gerwig's "Barbie".