Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE née Mironoff born 26 July 1945 is an English actor The recipient of numerous accolades she is the only person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom She received an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect and four Primetime Emmy Awards including two for Prime Suspect Excelling on stage with the National Youth Theatre Mirrens performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965 saw her invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company before she made her West End stage debut in 1975 Since then Mirren has also had success in television and film Aside from her Academy Awardwinning performance Mirrens other Oscarnominated performances were for The Madness of King George 1994 Gosford Park 2001 and The Last Station 2009 For her role on Prime Suspect which ran from 1991 to 2006 she won three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress 1992 1993 and 1994 a jointrecord of consecutive wins shared with Julie Walters and two Primetime Emmy Awards Playing Queen Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I 2005 and Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen 2006 she is the only actor to have portrayed both the regnant Elizabeths on screen After her breakthrough film role in The Long Good Friday 1980 other notable film roles included Cal 1984 for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress 2010 1984 The Cook the Thief His Wife Her Lover 1989 Teaching Mrs Tingle 1999 Calendar Girls 2003 Hitchcock 2012 The HundredFoot Journey 2014 Woman in Gold 2015 Trumbo 2015 and The Leisure Seeker 2017 She also appeared in the action films Red 2010 and Red 2 2013 playing an exMI6 assassin and in the Fast Furious films The Fate of the Furious 2017 Hobbs Shaw 2019 and F9 2021 In the Queens 2003 Birthday Honours Mirren was appointed a Dame DBE for services to drama with investiture taking place at Buckingham Palace In 2013 she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2014 she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts In 2021 she was announced as the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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