Queen of the Oscars
Helen Mirren's Best Actress Academy Award win for The Queen crowns a 42 year career as a talented, versatile, and chameleonic actor. We hope that her Oscar is merely one jewel in this queen's crown of future achievements, and that she will continue to provide her audiences with the performances that make her movies memorable.
Not only is Helen Mirren one of the hottest 61-year-old actors, she is also one of the most attractive stars of any age group, and her continuing and improving career provides inspiration for women of all ages in any field. Helen is truly an example of a woman whose looks have improved the older she gets. Right now, Helen Mirren is gorgeous.
Photo credit: Helen Mirren: unknown, source The Helen Mirren Appreciation Society
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Dame Helen Mirren's Humanitarian Work
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The Queen
Helen Mirren: Academy Award Best Actress, BAFTA Award Best Actress, Golden Globe Award Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor
Helen Mirren takes on the delicate task of portraying on film someone who is still alive. That person also happens to be the queen of her country and the person who bestowed on Helen the title of "Dame" in 2003.Yet, Helen Mirren steps seemingly effortlessly into Her Majesty's skin and recreates a painful period in history, covering the controversial death of the former Princess of Wales.
The Queen Movie site
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Helen Mirren: Still from The Queen, Pathé Pictures (low res, fair use claimed for illustrative purposes)
Prime Suspect
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Start at the beginning to see how Helen began a sixteen year dramatic study of this intricate and interesting character.
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Who is Helen Mirren?
Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov was born in England on 26 July 1945, to Vasily and Kathleen Mironov. In the 1950s, during the cold war, Vasily anglicised his family by changing his name to Basil, and his family's surname to Mirren. Presumably, Ilyena also became "Helen" at this time.Mirren began her acting career playing Cleopatra in a National Youth Theatre production. She then joined the prestigious and demanding Royal Shakespeare Company.
Helen has acted in close on 100 films and TV shows, including The Mosquito Coast, Some Mother's Son, The Madness of King George, and Gosford Park, on top of her signature role on Prime Suspect.
This year, Helen is scheduled to portray Elinor Loredan in the film version of Cornelia Funk's acclaimed children's book Inkheart.
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Helen Mirren, Emmy Awards, photographer unknown, source The Helen Mirren Appreciation Society
The Mosquito Coast
Helen Mirren plays the wife of a man who relocates his family to a Central American jungle in search of a better life.
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The Madness of King George
Mirren plays Queen Charlotte in a film about a king slowly losing his sanity.
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Gosford Park [Region 2]
Mirren is the housekeeper in this 1930s whodunnit.
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Calendar Girls
No stranger to nude scenes, Mirren seems right at home in this film about a group of older women posing nude for a fundraiser calendar.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact
One of Helen's earlier movies, a science fiction tale of a joint American-Soviet mission to Jupiter to search for the Discovery.
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Helen Mirren's style
Helen Mirren has proven that you can look glamorous and gorgeous, without having to pretend that you're years younger than you really are.Forget 40... life begins at 60! So whatever your age, dress up your best features for your upcoming social calendar.
Jewellery
Helen lead the red carpet style at the Oscars this year in the trend featuring cluster diamonds, her earrings, ring, and bracelet by Chopard. At the Emmys, her beautiful emerald necklace stole the show.
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Helen Mirren, Academy Awards, Wire Image, photographer unknown, source Emitations
Helen Mirren wore a cream and old-gold Christian Lacroix gown with the Chopard cluster-diamond jewels.
To copy this style, try the following gowns:
Bias Cut Silk Charmeuse Cocktail Party Dress with Front and Back Cowl Neckline in Pastel Paisley
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Sean Collection Aline Gown
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Helen's Oscar Acceptance Speech
Now you know for 50 years and more, Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty, and her hairstyle. She's had her feet planted firmly on the ground, her hat on her head, her handbag on her arm and she's weathered many, many storms, and I salute her courage and her consistency. And I thank her because if it wasn't for her, I most, most certainly would not be here. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Queen. Thank you. Thank you very much."
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