Helen Mirren

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: Chiswick, London, 26 July 1945

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Helen bags another award - Jan 18 2007
It looks like Dame Helen Mirren just can’t stop winning - tonight she scooped another prize at an awards ceremony.

The star of the hit film The Queen and Prime Suspect won the arts category at the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards in London.

Among others, the actress has been nominated for a Bafta for her role in The Queen, and has already picked up a Golden Globe and British Independent Film Award for the same role, as well as a recent Emmy for her role as Elizabeth I. She is also tipped for Oscar glory.

Celebrities including model Jerry Hall, her daughter Lizzie Jagger, director Terry Gilliam, Formula One driver Damon Hill and actress Jane Seymour were among the audience at the Guildhall.

The awards are designed to recognise achievement by Britons in the past year.

Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, claimed the sports category award for winning individual gold and team silver at the World Equestrian Games.

Sir David Attenborough claimed the creative industries award.

Former winners Jamie Oliver and double-gold Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes.

Helen leads Brits to Golden Globes success - Jan 16 2007
Dame Helen Mirren’s regal roles earned her two Golden Globes today as she led an impressive British assault on the Hollywood awards. See photos of The Golden Globe Awards

The 61-year-old won best dramatic film actress for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen and another honour for playing the monarch’s 16th century predecessor in TV mini-series Elizabeth I.

Scriptwriter Peter Morgan got the screenplay prize for The Queen, which tells the story of the royal family’s reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

But the movie missed out in the best picture category, which was won by Babel, and its director Stephen Frears was beaten by Martin Scorsese, who took the honour for The Departed.

Meanwhile Sacha Baron Cohen won the Golden Globe for actor in a comedy film for his spoof Kazakh journalist in Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

There were also awards for Hugh Laurie, Jeremy Irons, Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.

Peter O’Toole, who had been nominated for Venus, lost out to Forest Whitaker’s portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland in the best actor category.

Borat was beaten to the best comedy or musical film award by Dreamgirls, which won a total of three awards.

Eddie Murphy got best supporting actor in comedy or musical and former American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson was best supporting actress.

Another success story was Ugly Betty, which won the prize for TV musical or comedy series.

Helen was ’terrified’ of The Queen - Jan 12 2007
Helen Mirren said she was "terrified" when she was first approached about The Queen - for which she has picked up a Bafta best actress nomination.

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Biography

Helen Mirren was born on July 26, 1945 in London as Ilyena Lydia Mironoff. Her father was a member of an aristocratic Russian military family who happened to be stationed in England at the time of the Russian Revolution. A former violinist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, her father worked as taxi driver, freelance musician and driving instructor.

After a brief attempt to accommodate her parents’ wishes by attending teachers’ training college, Helen quit to join the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and went on to play many of the Bard’s heroines. Helen is now an acclaimed and much-loved and respected actress who is perhaps best known as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, in the award winning British television series Prime Suspect.

She co-starred with Bob Hoskins in the British gangster film "The Long Good Friday" (1980) and was a seductively evil Morgana in John Boorman’s "Excalibur" (1981). She recently teamed up with Hoskins once again in the acclaimed British movie "Last Orders".

Helen won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Best Actress nomination at Cannes for her role in the film "The Madness of King George".

She currently divides her time between America with hubby Director/Producer Taylor Hackford and her home in Wapping.
February 2008