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Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren (; born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. In a career spanning 60 years, she is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, an Olivier Award and a Tony Award. She has been honored with the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014, the Honorary Golden Bear in 2020, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2022. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.

Mirren started her career at the age of 18 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. She went on to receive the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for playing Elizabeth II in the Peter Morgan play ''The Audience'' (2013). She reprised the role on Broadway and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was Tony-nominated for ''A Month in the Country'' (1995) and ''The Dance of Death'' (2002).

Mirren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the drama ''The Queen'' (2006). She was Oscar-nominated for her roles in ''The Madness of King George'' (1994), ''Gosford Park'' (2001), and ''The Last Station'' (2009). She has acted in films such as ''Caligula'' (1979), ''Excalibur'' (1981), ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989), ''The Tempest'' (2010), ''Hitchcock'' (2012), ''Eye in the Sky'' (2015), and ''Trumbo'' (2015). She has also acted in the action films ''Red'' (2010) and its 2013 sequel, as well as four films in the ''Fast & Furious'' film franchise.

On television, Mirren played DCI Jane Tennison in ITV's police procedural ''Prime Suspect'' (1991–2006), where she earned three British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress and two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She also earned Emmy Awards for portraying Ayn Rand in the Showtime television film ''The Passion of Ayn Rand'' (1999) and Queen Elizabeth I in the HBO miniseries ''Elizabeth I'' (2005). She also acted in ''Door to Door'' (2002), ''Phil Spector'' (2013), ''Catherine the Great'' (2019), and ''1923'' (2022). Provided by Wikipedia