Helen Mirren
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- Full Name
- Helen Mirren
- Born
- July 26, 1945
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- Age
- 81 years
- Zodiac Sign
- Leo
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- Nationality
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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- Profession
- Actress, Business Leader
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Biography
Helen Mirren is 81 years old, an actress, from United Kingdom.
Dame Helen Mirren (; born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award.
She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. Mirren started her career as a performer with the National Youth Theatre, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1965).
She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her West End stage debut in 1975.
Awards & Nominations
| Year | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Golden Globe Award | Won |
| 2014 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Won |
| 2007 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Won |
| 2007 | BAFTA Film Award | Won |
| 2007 | Academy Award | Won |
| 2007 | Golden Globe Award | Won |
| 2002 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Won |
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