Helen Mirren
Gender: Female
Born: 26th July 1945 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: England
TV programs: Play of the Month, Play of the Month, The New Twilight Zone, Play of the Month, Elizabeth I, Play for Today, Thriller, Third Watch, Play of the Month, Faerie Tale Theatre, Tracey Takes On..., National Theatre Live, Play for Today, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, BBC2 Playhouse, Great Performances, The Hidden Room, Frasier, Prime Suspect, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live, Prime Suspect 2, Prime Suspect: Inner Circles, Prime Suspect 3
Movies: 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Age of Consent, Caligula, Excalibur, Gosford Park, Greenfingers, Last Orders, O Lucky Man!, Shadowboxer, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, The Long Good Friday, The Madness of King George, The Mosquito Coast, When the Whales Came, Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Queen, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Comfort of Strangers, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, White Nights, Cal, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Last Orders, No Such Thing, Calendar Girls, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, Elizabeth I, Some Mother's Son, The Clearing, Savage Messiah, Pascali's Island, Inkheart, The Hawk, State of Play, The Passion of Ayn Rand, S.O.S. Titanic, Pride, As You Like It, Coming Through, The Last Station, The Prince of Egypt, The Tempest, Herostratus, The Debt, Heavenly Pursuits, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Raising Helen, Hussy, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Critical Care, The Snow Queen, The Pledge, Red, Love Ranch, Door to Door, Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (1), Cymbeline, Losing Chase, Brighton Rock, Cause Celebre, Arthur, Shakespeare Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Door, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula, Happy Birthday, On the Edge, Painted Lady, Prime Suspect: The Lost Child, Red King, White Knight, Prince of Jutland, Bethune, Press for Time, Untitled Phil Spector Biopic, When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho'
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913–1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909–1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain, when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family.
His son, Helen Mirren's father, changed the family name to the Scottish-sounding Mirren in the 1950s and became known as Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was
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