Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE, is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, after two previous nominations, for her performance...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth26 July 1945
CityLondon, England
We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.