Queen Helen - September 2006
Critics are backing Helen Mirren for next year’s Best Actrss Oscar.  The actress plays the Queen in Stephen Frears’ film of the same name which premiered at the Venice Film Festival to a standing ovation.  Helen though, is mainly concerned that the Royal family might be offended by her portrayal.

It’s not cricket! - Mar 05
Cricket’s off the screen and Helen Mirren’s on. Channel 4 has put the money it is saving from losing the rights to British and International cricket matches in to new monthly dramas and the first one is to star our favourite Docklander, Helen Mirren. The actress is to play Elizabeth I in a feature length drama due to hit our screens later this year, one of a series of big budget features from the channel.

Helen sees Red (ford) - Mar 05
Helen Mirren denies reports of Redford romance. The veteran actress has laughed off reports that she has been getting up close and personal with co star Robert Redford on the set of her latest film, The Clearing. The 59 year old said "my feelings towards Bob are much more about my admiration for him as a person and what he has achieved." She also describes Redford as being "easy going and modest" rather than acting the big icon that he is.

Queen Helen - Sept 04
Helen Mirren is poised to play the Queen in future project. Helen will take on the role of Queen Elizabeth in a film which explores the relationship between Downing Street and Buckingham Palace in the weeks surrounding Diana, Princess of Wales’ death. Director Stephen Frears confirmed Helen’s involvement at the Edinburgh Festival last month.

Helen is poll winner - August 04
Helen Mirren tops poll of most respected women.

A survey carried out by Sure deodorants asked 1,000 over 50s which woman in the limelight they most admired. It should come as now shock really that the liberated and independent Helen was top of the polls for 47% of the women. Joanna Lumley came a close second while young pop starlets like Britney Spears and Geri Halliwell floundered at the bottom of the poll.

Helen in her Prime - April 04
Helen Mirren is to return to her role in Prime Suspect after 7 years away from the part.

Mirren will return to our screens as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness. This edition of the crime drama will be even darker than before and Mirren says that seven years was long enough to wait to take on the role again "every year they said, ’Would you like to do it?’ I decided seven years is long enough.

But still, I didn’t want a new film to appear to be an afterthought, as if we were just cashing in."

Helen wants to be Martha - April 04
Helen Mirren has told press she wants to play Martha Stewart if the opportunity arises.

Stewart was convicted last month of lying about a stock sale and the idea came up in discussions about Mirren’s portrayal of Lady MacBeth. Hardly a fair comparison and even the Prime Suspect star said ’I think of her as being more like Rosalind in As You Like It. kind of wonderful and kind of dificult’. Apparently Mirren is drawn to Stewart’s ’amazing energy’.

Dame Helen! - 08/12/03
Helen Mirren has been made a dame and she thinks Buckingham Palace is ’the greatest theatre I have ever been in’.

She received her honour from Prince Charles and said ’It was just lovely. I just felt my mouth go ever so slightly dry. I just thought ’don’t be so silly’