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{{short description|English actor (born 1945)}}
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{{Family name hatnote|Vasilievna|Mironoff|lang=East Slavic}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Dame]]
| name               = Helen Mirren
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE}}
| image              = MKr24712 Helen Mirren (Golda, Berlinale 2023) cropped.png
| caption            = Mirren presenting the movie [[Golda (film)|Golda]] at the [[Berlinale 2023]]
| birth_name         = Ilyena Lydia Mironoff
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1945|7|26}}
| birth_place        = [[Hammersmith]], [[London]], England
| citizenship        = {{hlist|United Kingdom|United States}}
| occupation         = Actor
| years_active       = 1963–present
| works              = [[Helen Mirren on screen and stage|Full list]]
| partner            = [[Liam Neeson]] (1980–1985)<ref>{{cite web |last=McArdle |first=Tommy |title=Helen Mirren Says She and Ex Liam Neeson 'Loved Each Other' But 'Were Not Meant to Be Together' |url=https://people.com/movies/helen-mirren-says-she-and-ex-liam-neeson-loved-each-other-but-were-not-meant-to-be-together/ |date=22 November 2022 |access-date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128191435/https://people.com/movies/helen-mirren-says-she-and-ex-liam-neeson-loved-each-other-but-were-not-meant-to-be-together/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Guglielmi |first=Jodi |title=Liam Neeson Recalls First Falling for Former Flame Helen Mirren: 'I Was Smitten' |url=https://people.com/movies/liam-neeson-helen-mirren-talk-past-relationship/ |date=19 January 2018 |access-date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128191437/https://people.com/movies/liam-neeson-helen-mirren-talk-past-relationship/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Taylor Hackford]]|31 December 1997}}
| relatives          = {{ubl|[[Simon Mirren]] (nephew)|[[Tania Mallet]] (cousin)|[[Rio Hackford]] (stepson)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/rio-hackford-dead-mandalorian-1235233527/|title=Rio Hackford, Club Owner and Actor, Dies at 52|first=Pat|last=Saperstein|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=15 April 2022|access-date=16 April 2022|archive-date=16 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416004333/https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/rio-hackford-dead-mandalorian-1235233527/|url-status=live}}</ref>|[[Mikhail Kamensky]] (great-great-great-great-grandfather)}}
| awards             = [[List of awards and nominations received by Helen Mirren|Full list]]
| website            = {{URL|helenmirren.com}}
| signature          = Helen Mirren signature.svg
}}

'''Dame Helen Mirren''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɪ|r|ən}}; born '''Ilyena Lydia Mironoff''';{{efn|name = Birth|Mirren's birth name has been variously reported as '''Ilyena Lydia Mironoff''',<ref>{{cite news|url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1866625.stm|title = Mirren seeks Oscar glory|date = 11 March 2002|access-date = 3 August 2025|work = [[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url = https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Mirren|title = Helen Mirren|encyclopedia = [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|accessdate = 3 August 2025}}</ref><ref name="biography.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/helen-mirren-547434 |title=Helen Mirren Biography: Actor (1945–) |website=[[Biography.com]] |publisher=[[FYI (TV network)|FYI]]/[[A&E Networks]] |access-date=15 June 2016 |archive-date=16 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616095449/http://www.biography.com/people/helen-mirren-547434 |url-status=live }}</ref> as '''Helen Lydia Mironoff''',<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/helen-mirren-i-m-not-chopped-liver-1.1918060|title = Helen Mirren: 'I'm not chopped liver'|last = Clarke|first = Donald|newspaper = [[The Irish Times]]|date = 5 September 2014|accessdate = 3 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://people.com/movies/helen-mirren-life-and-career-in-photos/|title = Helen Mirren's Extraordinary Life and Career in Photos|last = Cho|first = Daniel J.|date = 25 July 2024|accessdate = 3 August 2025|work = [[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref><ref name=ker>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/02/061002fa_fact1 |title=Command Performance: The reign of Helen Mirren |last=Lahr |first=John |date=2 October 2006 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=24 October 2010 |archive-date=20 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620132632/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/02/061002fa_fact1 |url-status=live }}</ref> or in at least one source as ''' Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov'''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hunt |first=Stacey Wilson |date=2010-12-07 |title=Hollywood's Great Dame: Helen Mirren |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywoods-great-dame-helen-mirren-56687/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-date=6 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106221707/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywoods-great-dame-helen-mirren-56687/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} 26 July 1945) is an English<!--as per [[MOS:BIO]]; became notable as English and not British-American--> actor.<!--PLEASE READ THE NOTE. Helen Mirren prefers to call herself an ACTOR: it's a GENDER NEUTRAL term, it applies to women as well as to men (see article history) --> With a career spanning over six decades of [[Helen Mirren on screen and stage|screen and stage]], [[List of awards and nominations received by Helen Mirren|her accolades]] include an [[Academy Award]], three [[Golden Globe Awards]],  four [[BAFTA Awards]], five [[Emmy Awards]], a [[Tony Award]], two [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress|Cannes Film Festival Awards]], a [[Volpi Cup for Best Actress|Volpi Cup]] and a [[Laurence Olivier Award]]. She is the only person to have achieved both the [[Triple Crown of Acting|US]] and [[Triple Crown (UK entertainment)|UK Triple Crowns of Acting]], and has also received the [[BAFTA Fellowship]], [[Honorary Golden Bear]], [[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award]], and the [[Cecil B. DeMille Award]]. Mirren was made a [[Dame|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) by [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] in [[2003 Birthday Honours|2003]].<ref name="Damehood">{{London Gazette|issue=56963|supp=y|page=7 |date=14 June 2003}}</ref><ref name="Ceremony">{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3294531.stm |title=Dame Helen centre stage at palace |date=5 December 2003 |website=[[BBC News Online|BBC News]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725070213/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3294531.stm |archive-date=25 July 2012}}</ref>

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 theatre|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 (play)|The Audience]]'' (2013). She reprised the role on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] and won the [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]]. She was Tony-nominated for ''[[A Month in the Country (play)|A Month in the Country]]'' (1995) and ''[[The Dance of Death (Strindberg play)|The Dance of Death]]'' (2002).

Mirren's first credited film role was in ''[[Herostratus (film)|Herostratus]]'' (1967) and her first major role was in ''[[Age of Consent (film)|Age of Consent]]'' (1969).<ref name="age">{{cite magazine|date=1 December 2025|access-date=1 December 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-age-of-consent|title=Forgotten Australian Films: Age of Consent|magazine=Filmink}}</ref> She gained further recognition for her roles in ''[[O Lucky Man!]]'' (1973), ''[[Caligula (film)|Caligula]]'' (1979), ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), ''[[Excalibur (1981 film)|Excalibur]]'' (1981), ''[[The Mosquito Coast (film)|The Mosquito Coast]]'' (1986), and ''[[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]]'' (1989). She received Academy Award nominations for her performances in ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994) and ''[[Gosford Park]]'' (2001), before winning [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in the drama ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]'' (2006). She was nominated again for her performance in ''[[The Last Station]]'' (2009), and went on to appear in further films such as ''[[The Tempest (2010 film)|The Tempest]]'' (2010), ''[[Hitchcock (film)|Hitchcock]]'' (2012), ''[[Eye in the Sky (2015 film)|Eye in the Sky]]'' (2015), and ''[[Trumbo (2015 film)|Trumbo]]'' (2015). She has also appeared in the action film ''[[Red (2010 film)|Red]]'' (2010) and its [[Red 2 (film)|2013 sequel]], as well as four films in the ''[[Fast & Furious]]'' franchise.

On television, Mirren played DCI Jane Tennison in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s [[police procedural]] ''[[Prime Suspect]]'' (1991–2006), for which she earned three [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress#1990s|British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress]] and two [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/helen-mirren |title=Helen Mirren |website=[[Emmy Award]] |access-date=11 March 2018 |archive-date=12 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312024012/https://www.emmys.com/bios/helen-mirren |url-status=live }}</ref> She also earned Emmy Awards for portraying [[Ayn Rand]] in the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] television film ''[[The Passion of Ayn Rand (film)|The Passion of Ayn Rand]]'' (1999) and [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth I]] in the [[HBO]] miniseries ''[[Elizabeth I (2005 TV series)|Elizabeth I]]'' (2005).<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Helen Mirren, at 75, remains the queen of acting |url=https://www.dw.com/en/why-helen-mirren-at-75-remains-the-queen-of-acting/a-52429296 |access-date=20 October 2020 |website=[[Deutsche Welle]] |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022134325/https://www.dw.com/en/why-helen-mirren-at-75-remains-the-queen-of-acting/a-52429296 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her other television roles include ''[[Door to Door (film)|Door to Door]]'' (2002), ''[[Phil Spector (film)|Phil Spector]]'' (2013), ''[[Catherine the Great (miniseries)|Catherine the Great]]'' (2019), ''[[1923 (TV series)|1923]]'' (2022), and ''[[MobLand]]'' (2025).

==Early life, family and education ==
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Ilyena Lydia Mironoff was born on 26 July 1945 at [[Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital]] in the [[Hammersmith]] district of London,{{efn|name = Birth}}<ref name= birth>{{cite web |url=http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=bmd%2fb%2f1945%2f3%2faz%2f000858%2f014 |title=England & Wales births 1837–2006 Transcription |website=[[Findmypast]] |access-date=6 June 2016 |quote=Her birth was registered in the Hammersmith registration district |url-access= subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/whenever-i-see-the-queen-i-think-oh-there-i-am-the-right-royal-progress-of-helen-mirren-8527736.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/whenever-i-see-the-queen-i-think-oh-there-i-am-the-right-royal-progress-of-helen-mirren-8527736.html |archive-date=9 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title='Whenever I see the Queen, I think, "Oh ... there I am"': The right royal progress of Helen Mirren |first=Neil |last=Norman |date=10 March 2013 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref> to an [[English people|English]] mother and [[Russians|Russian]] father.<ref name=nationsmemory>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationsmemorybank.com/editorial/family_article_2.html |title=Helen Mirren |website=Nation's Memorybank |access-date=5 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207044313/http://www.nationsmemorybank.com/editorial/family_article_2.html |archive-date=7 December 2008 }}</ref> Her mother, Kathleen "Kitty" Alexandrina Eva Matilda (née Rogers; 1908–1996), was a working-class woman from [[West Ham]], the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher whose own father was the butcher to [[Queen Victoria]].<ref name=nationsmemory/>{{sfn|Mirren|2011|p=34}} Mirren's father, Vasily Petrovich [[Niesobia coat of arms|Mironoff]] (1913–80), was a member of an exiled family of [[Russian nobility]] dating back to the first half of the 15th century. He was taken to England when he was two by his father, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov (1880–1957).<ref name=nationsmemory/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=mironov&p=pyotr+vasilievich | title=Family tree of Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov }}</ref> Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov owned a large family estate near Gzhatsk (now [[Gagarin, Smolensk Oblast|Gagarin]]) in the [[Russian Empire]].<ref>{{Cite web |date= 2020-11-25 |title=Смоленская королева Хелен Миррен |url=https://dzen.ru/a/X70SWAtK-AFJwEpF |website=dzen.ru| language= ru |access-date=2025-02-08}}</ref> His mother, Mirren's great-grandmother, was Countess Lydia Andreevna [[:ru:Каменские|Kamenskaya]] (1848–1928), an aristocrat and a descendant of [[Mikhail Kamensky|Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky]], a Russian general in the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref name=ker/><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/la-canada-valley-sun/news/tn-vsl-xpm-2006-09-28-lap-queen0921-story.html| title=Behind the Scene:God Save The Queen| date=28 September 2006| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| access-date=12 February 2020| first=Susan E.| last=James| archive-date=12 February 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212222317/https://www.latimes.com/socal/la-canada-valley-sun/news/tn-vsl-xpm-2006-09-28-lap-queen0921-story.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Her grandfather, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, also served as a colonel in the [[Imperial Russian Army]] and fought in the [[Russo-Japanese War]]. He later became a diplomat in the service of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain when he and his family were stranded by the [[Russian Revolution]] in 1917.<ref name="NYTJacobs">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/arts/television/helen-mirren-catherine.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212214734/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/arts/television/helen-mirren-catherine.html| archive-date=12 February 2020| url-status=live| title=Helen Mirren Plays Catherine II in the Years That Made Her 'the Great'| date=21 October 2019| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=12 February 2020| first=Julia| last=Jacobs| url-access= subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/archives/mrn.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222071030/http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/archives/mrn.htm |archive-date=22 February 2019 |title=Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov Collection: The Russian Government Committee in London (1914–1939) |date=11 September 2009 |website= ucl.ac.uk | publisher= University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library |access-date=30 December 2013 |url-status= live }}</ref> He settled in London and became a cab driver to support his family.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/helen-mirrens-in-the-prime-of-life-7239430.html |title=Helen Mirren's in the prime of life |date=13 July 2017 |newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=15 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415075324/https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/helen-mirrens-in-the-prime-of-life-7239430.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Vasily Mironoff also played the viola with the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] before [[World War II]].<ref name= nationsmemory/> He was an ambulance driver during the war, and served in the [[East End of London]] during [[the Blitz]].{{sfn|Mirren|2011|p=22}} He and Kathleen Rogers married in Hammersmith in 1938, and at some point before 1951 he anglicised his first name to Basil.<ref name= Gazette/> Shortly after Helen's birth, her father left the orchestra and returned to driving a cab to support the family. He later worked as a driving-test examiner, then became a civil servant with the [[Department for Transport|Ministry of Transport]].<ref name="biography.com"/><ref name= nationsmemory/> In 1951, he changed the family name to Mirren by [[deed poll]].<ref name=Gazette>{{London Gazette |date=12 October 1951 |issue= 39356 |page= 5331 |supp=y}}</ref> Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=4df5110c-c5e5-4f0c-a381-4da43eb264cc |title=Helen Mirren, British Royal Tea? |first=Natalie |last=Finn |date=26 February 2007 |website=[[E! News]] |access-date=30 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012090005/http://eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=4df5110c-c5e5-4f0c-a381-4da43eb264cc |archive-date=12 October 2007 }}</ref> She was the second of three children; she has an older sister Katherine ("Kate"; born 1942) and had a younger brother Peter Basil (1947–2002).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.inquirer.net/189510/helen-mirren-fondly-remembers-late-costar-alan-rickman |title=Helen Mirren fondly remembers late costar Alan Rickman |last=Nepales |first=Ruben V. |date=7 February 2016 |newspaper= [[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |location= Manila |access-date=6 October 2016 |archive-date=6 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106185730/http://entertainment.inquirer.net/189510/helen-mirren-fondly-remembers-late-costar-alan-rickman |url-status=live }}</ref> Her paternal cousin was [[Tania Mallet]], a model and [[Bond girl]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47772012 |title=Goldfinger actress dies aged 77 |date=1 April 2019 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=1 April 2019 |archive-date=25 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525215926/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47772012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren was brought up in [[Leigh-on-Sea]], Essex.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8303064/Helen-Mirren-interview.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8303064/Helen-Mirren-interview.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Helen Mirren interview |last=Piccalo |first=Gina |date=7 February 2011 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=6 November 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Mirren attended Hamlet Court primary school in [[Westcliff-on-Sea]], where she had the lead role in a school production of ''[[Hansel and Gretel]]'',{{sfn|Mirren|2011|pp=47–48}}<ref name=autobiography>{{cite book |title=In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures |first=Helen |last=Mirren |date=25 March 2008 |publisher= Weidenfeld & Nicolson |location=London |isbn=978-1-41656-760-8 |url-access= registration |url=https://archive.org/details/inframemylifeinw0000mirr }}</ref> and [[St Bernard's High School for Girls]] in [[Southend-on-Sea]], where she also acted in school productions. She subsequently attended a teaching college, the [[Middlesex University|New College of Speech and Drama]] in London, "housed within [[Anna Pavlova]]'s old home, Ivy House" on [[North End Road, Golders Green|North End Road]] in [[Golders Green]]. At the age of eighteen, she passed the audition for the [[National Youth Theatre]] (NYT); and at twenty, she played [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]] in the NYT production of ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Old Vic]], a role which she says "launched my career" and led to her signing with agent [[Albert Parker (director)|Albert Parker]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Fame Academy: Where Daniel Craig, Helen Mirren and Colin Firth learned to act |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/actors/fame-academy-where-daniel-craig-helen-mirren-and-colin-firth-lea/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/actors/fame-academy-where-daniel-craig-helen-mirren-and-colin-firth-lea/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=22 April 2020 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Waterman |first=Ivan |date=2003 |title=Helen Mirren: The Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/helenmirren00ivan/page/18 |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Metro Books |pages=[https://archive.org/details/helenmirren00ivan/page/18 18–22, 26–29] |isbn=1843580535 }}</ref>

== Career ==
=== 1965–1979: Royal Shakespeare Company and acclaim ===
As a result of her work for the National Youth Theatre, Mirren was invited to join the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] (RSC). While with the RSC, she played Castiza in [[Trevor Nunn]]'s 1966 staging of ''[[The Revenger's Tragedy]]'', Diana in ''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]'' (1967), Cressida in ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' (1968), Rosalind<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/helen-mirren/biography/39?page=5 |title=Helen Mirren – Biography |website=[[TalkTalk Group|TalkTalk]] |access-date=30 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233618/http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/helen-mirren/biography/39?page=5 |archive-date=30 December 2013}}</ref> in ''[[As You Like It]]'' (1968), Julia in ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' (1970), Tatiana in [[Maxim Gorky|Gorky]]'s ''Enemies'' at the [[Aldwych Theatre|Aldwych]] (1971), and the title role in ''[[Miss Julie]]'' at [[The Other Place (theatre)|The Other Place]] (1971). She also appeared in four productions, directed by [[Braham Murray]] for Century Theatre at the University Theatre in Manchester, between 1965 and 1967.<ref>{{cite book |last=Murray |first=Braham |author-link=Braham Murray |year=2007 |title=The Worst It Can Be Is a Disaster |location=London |publisher=Methuen Drama |isbn=978-0-7136-8490-2}}</ref>

In 1970, the director and producer [[John Goldschmidt]] made a documentary film, ''Doing Her Own Thing'', about Mirren during her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Made for [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]], it was shown on the ITV network in the UK. In 1972 and 1973, Mirren worked with [[Peter Brook]]'s International Centre for Theatre Research and joined the group's tour in North Africa and the US, during which they created ''[[The Conference of the Birds]]''. She then rejoined the RSC, playing [[Lady Macbeth]] at [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre|Stratford]] in 1974 and at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in 1975. In 1976, she appeared with [[Laurence Olivier]], [[Alan Bates]] and [[Malcolm McDowell]] in a production of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]'' as part of the ''[[Laurence Olivier Presents]]'' series.

[[Sally Beauman]] reported, in her 1982 history of the RSC, that Mirren—while appearing in Nunn's ''Macbeth'' (1974), and in a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper—had sharply criticised both the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] and the RSC for their lavish production expenditure, declaring it "unnecessary and destructive to the art of the Theatre", and adding, "The realms of truth, emotion and imagination reached for in acting a great play have become more and more remote, often totally unreachable across an abyss of costume and technicalities..." This started a big debate, and led to a question in parliament. There were no discernible repercussions for this rebuke of the RSC.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jul/23/helen-mirren-at-75-michael-billington |title=Helen Mirren at 75: wild costumes, blazing performances – and a spell as a rock banshee |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |first=Michael |last=Billington |date=23 July 2020 |access-date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=23 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723134659/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jul/23/helen-mirren-at-75-michael-billington |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Beauman |first=Sally |author-link=Sally Beauman |date=1982 |title=The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades |url=https://archive.org/details/royalshakespeare00sall |url-access=registration |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19212-209-4}}</ref>

At the [[West End theatre|West End]]'s [[Royal Court Theatre]] in September 1975, she played the role of a rock star named Maggie in ''[[Teeth 'n' Smiles (play)|Teeth 'n' Smiles]]'', a musical play by [[David Hare (dramatist)|David Hare]]; she reprised the role the following year in a revival of the play at [[Wyndham's Theatre]] in May 1976. Beginning in November 1975, Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in ''[[The Seagull]]'' and Ella in [[Ben Travers]]'s new farce ''The Bed Before Yesterday'' ("Mirren is stirringly voluptuous as the [[Jean Harlow|Harlowesque]] good-time girl": [[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]], ''The Guardian''). At the RSC in Stratford in 1977, and at the Aldwych the following year, she played a steely Queen Margaret in [[Terry Hands]]' production of the three parts of ''[[Henry VI (play)|Henry VI]]'', while 1979 saw her 'bursting with grace', and winning acclaim for her performance as Isabella in [[Peter Gill (playwright)|Peter Gill]]'s production of ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' at [[Riverside Studios]]. Mirren has appeared in a large number of films throughout her career. Some of her earlier film appearances include roles in ''[[Herostratus (film)|Herostratus]]'' (1967, Dir. Don Levy), ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1968), ''[[Age of Consent (film)|Age of Consent]]'' (1969), and ''[[O Lucky Man!]]'' (1973).

=== 1980–1999: Early film roles and ''Prime Suspect'' ===
[[File:Charlotte1767Cotes.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Mirren won acclaim for her role as [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Queen Charlotte]] in ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994)]]
In 1981, Mirren returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of [[Brian Friel]]'s ''[[Faith Healer]]''. That same year she also won acclaim for her performance in the title role of [[John Webster]]'s ''[[The Duchess of Malfi]]'', a production of Manchester's [[Royal Exchange, Manchester|Royal Exchange Theatre]] which was later transferred to [[The Roundhouse]] in [[Chalk Farm]], London. Reviewing her portrayal for ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'', [[Francis King]] wrote: "Miss Mirren never leaves it in doubt that even in her absences, this ardent, beautiful woman is the most important character of the story." In her performance as Moll Cutpurse in ''[[The Roaring Girl]]''—at the [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre]] in January 1983, and at the [[Barbican Theatre]] in April 1983—she was described as having "swaggered through the action with radiant singularity of purpose, filling in areas of light and shade that even [[Thomas Middleton]] and [[Thomas Dekker (poet)|Thomas Dekker]] omitted."&nbsp;– [[Michael Coveney]], ''[[Financial Times]]'', April 1983.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ward |first1=Philip |title=Becoming Helen Mirren |date=25 October 2019 |publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd.| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zh-3DwAAQBAJ&q=roaring+girl| isbn=978-1-8385-9714-6}}</ref> During this time, Mirren took roles in ''[[Caligula (film)|Caligula]]'' (1979),<ref name="VF2015" /><ref name="peop_Hele" /> ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980)—co-starring with [[Bob Hoskins]] in what was her breakthrough film role,<ref name="BBC 2014">{{cite news| title=Dame Helen Mirren to receive Bafta fellowship| url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25911227| work=BBC News| date=27 January 2014| access-date=1 March 2022| archive-date=2 March 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302000653/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25911227| url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' (1981), ''[[2010 (film)|2010]]'' (1984), ''[[White Nights (1985 film)|White Nights]]'' (1985), ''[[The Mosquito Coast (film)|The Mosquito Coast]]'' (1986), ''[[Pascali's Island (film)|Pascali's Island]]'' (1988) and ''[[When the Whales Came]]'' (1989). Mirren's television performances include ''[[Cousin Bette]]'' (1971); ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare|As You Like It]]'' (1979); ''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' (1979); and ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[Dead Woman's Shoes]]" (1985).

At the beginning of 1989, Mirren co-starred with [[Bob Peck]] at the [[Young Vic]] in the London premiere of the [[Arthur Miller]] double-bill, ''Two Way Mirror'', performances which prompted Miller to remark: "What is so good about English actors is that they are not afraid of the open expression of large emotions. British actors like to speak. In London, there's a much more open-hearted kind of exchange between stage and audience" (interview by [[Sheridan Morley]]: ''[[The Times]]'' 11 January 1989).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bigsby |first1=Christopher |title=Arthur Miller: 1962–2005 |date=2011 |publisher=Hachette UK}}</ref> In ''[[Elegy for a Lady]]'' she played the svelte proprietress of a classy boutique, while as the blonde hooker in ''[[Some Kind of Love Story]]'' she was "clad in a Freudian slip and shifting easily from waif-like vulnerability to sexual aggression, giving the role a breathy Monroesque quality".<ref>{{cite news| title=The Coutours of Passion| newspaper=The Guardian| location=London| date=25 January 1989| page=46| last=Billington| first=Michael| url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259882155/| access-date=22 October 2020| via=Newspapers.com| archive-date=24 October 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024185021/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259882155/| url-status=live}}</ref>

Mirren is known for her role as detective Jane Tennison in the widely viewed ''[[Prime Suspect]]'', a multiple award-winning television drama series that was noted for its high quality and popularity. Her portrayal of Tennison won her [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress#1990s|three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress]] between 1992 and 1994 (making her one of four actors to have received three consecutive [[BAFTA TV Awards]] for a role, alongside [[Robbie Coltrane]], [[Julie Walters]] and [[Michael Gambon]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dame-helen-mirren-10-things-202365 |title=Dame Helen Mirren: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar nominated actress |date=18 February 2010 |newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]] |location=London |access-date=7 November 2012 |archive-date=17 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117003000/http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dame-helen-mirren-10-things-202365 |url-status=live }}</ref> Primarily due to ''Prime Suspect'', in 2006 Mirren came 29th on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest Stars]] voted by the British public.<ref name="Poll">{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5142726.stm| title=ITV to salute '50 greatest stars'| date=3 July 2006| work=[[BBC News]]| access-date=2 October 2020| archive-date=8 August 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808160749/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5142726.stm| url-status=live}}</ref> A further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an [[Yvonne Arnaud Theatre]] production bound for the West End, when [[Bill Bryden]] cast her as Natalya Petrovna in [[Ivan Turgenev]]'s ''[[A Month in the Country (play)|A Month in the Country]]''. Her co-stars were [[John Hurt]] as her aimless lover Rakitin and [[Joseph Fiennes]] in only his second professional stage appearance as the cocksure young tutor Belyaev.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Month in the Country |last=Thaxter |first=John |date=4 March 1994 |newspaper=[[Richmond & Twickenham Times]] |quote=Instead of a bored Natalya fretting the summer away in dull frocks, Mirren, dazzlingly gowned, is a woman almost wilfully allowing her heart's desire for her son's young tutor to rule her head and wreak domestic havoc....Creamy shoulders bared, she feels free to launch into a gloriously enchanted, dreamily comic self-confession of love.}}</ref> Prior to 2015, Mirren had twice been nominated for Broadway's [[Tony Award]] for Best Actress in a Play: in 1995 for her Broadway debut in ''[[A Month in the Country (play)|A Month in the Country]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/26/theater/theater-review-turgenev-s-inquiry-into-calamitous-love.html |title=Theater Review; Turgenev's Inquiry Into Calamitous Love |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=26 April 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=20 October 2019 |quote=Miss Mirren's performance is bigger and more animated than the one she gave last year in an entirely different London production. |archive-date=20 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020145855/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/26/theater/theater-review-turgenev-s-inquiry-into-calamitous-love.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and then again in 2002 for ''[[The Dance of Death (Strindberg)|The Dance of Death]]'', co-starring with Sir [[Ian McKellen]], their fraught rehearsal period coinciding with the terrorist attacks on New York on 11 September 2001.<ref name=autobiography/>

Mirren appeared in ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994), ''[[Some Mother's Son]]'' (1996), ''[[Painted Lady (TV series)|Painted Lady]]'' (1997) and ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' (1998).<ref name="Mirren roles"/> In [[Peter Greenaway]]'s colourful ''[[The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover]]'', Mirren plays the wife opposite [[Michael Gambon]]. In ''[[Teaching Mrs. Tingle]]'' (1999), she plays sadistic history teacher Mrs. Eve Tingle.<ref name="Mirren roles">{{cite news |title=All Helen Mirren's 61 movies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/02/all-helen-mirrens-61-movies-ranked |access-date=23 April 2020 |work=The Guardian |location=London |archive-date=1 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401090102/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/02/all-helen-mirrens-61-movies-ranked |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1998, Mirren played [[Cleopatra]] to [[Alan Rickman]]'s [[Mark Antony|Antony]] in ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]. The production received poor reviews; ''[[The Guardian]]'' called it "plodding spectacle rarely informed by powerful passion", while ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' said "the crucial sexual chemistry on which any great production ultimately depends is fatally absent".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-case-of-hype-and-fall-as-rickman-and-mirren-are-put-to-the-sword-1180144.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-case-of-hype-and-fall-as-rickman-and-mirren-are-put-to-the-sword-1180144.html |archive-date=9 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=A case of hype and fall as Rickman and Mirren are put to the sword |last=Lister |first=David |date=23 October 1998 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref> In 2000 [[Nicholas Hytner]], who had worked with Mirren on the film version of ''[[The Madness of King George]]'', cast her as Lady Torrance in his revival of [[Tennessee Williams]]' ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' at the [[Donmar Warehouse]] in London. Michael Billington, reviewing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', described her performance as "an exemplary study of an immigrant woman who has acquired a patina of resilient toughness but who slowly acknowledges her sensuality."<ref>{{cite news |title=Southern discomfort |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/29/artsfeatures4 |date=28 June 2000 |page=46 |access-date=1 March 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |archive-date=28 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428222105/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/29/artsfeatures4 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== 2000–2006: Film stardom and awards success ===
[[File:Helen Mirren 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Mirren at [[San Diego Comic Con]] in 2010]]
Mirren portrayed [[Ayn Rand]] in the television film, ''[[The Passion of Ayn Rand (film)|The Passion of Ayn Rand]]'' (1999), where her performance won her an [[Emmy]]; ''[[Door to Door (film)|Door to Door]]'' (2002); and ''[[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003 film)|The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone]]'' (2003). At the National Theatre in November 2003 she again won praise playing Christine Mannon ("defiantly cool, camp and skittish", ''[[Evening Standard]]''; "glows with mature sexual allure", ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'') in a revival of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' directed by [[Howard Davies (Theatre Director)|Howard Davies]]. "This production was one of the best experiences of my professional life, The play was four and a half hours long, and I have never known that kind of response from an audience ... It was the serendipity of a beautifully cast play, with great design and direction, It will be hard to be in anything better."<ref name=autobiography/> She played the title role in [[Jean Racine]]'s ''[[Phèdre]]'' at the National in 2009, in a production directed by [[Nicholas Hytner]]. The production was also staged at the [[Epidaurus#Theatre|Epidaurus amphitheatre]] on 11 and 12 July 2009.

Mirren's other appearances include ''[[The Clearing (film)|The Clearing]]'' (2004), ''[[Pride (2004 film)|Pride]]'' (2004), ''[[Raising Helen]]'' (2004), and ''[[Shadowboxer]]'' (2005). Mirren also provided the voice for the supercomputer "[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Deep Thought]]" in the film adaptation of [[Douglas Adams]]'s ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' (2005). Mirren's first film of the 2000s was [[Joel Hershman]]'s ''[[Greenfingers]]'' (2000), a comedy based on the true story about the prisoners of [[Leyhill Prison|HMP Leyhill]], a minimum-security prison, who won gardening awards.<ref name="Deitz">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/16/garden/free-to-grow-bluebells-in-england.html |title=Free to Grow Bluebells in England |last=Deitz |first=Paula |date=16 July 1998 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=13 |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=20 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020084519/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/16/garden/free-to-grow-bluebells-in-england.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren portrayed a devoted plantswoman in the film, who coaches a team of prison gardeners, led by [[Clive Owen]], to victory at a prestigious flower show.<ref name="Ramsey">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/movies/film-never-too-tough-to-be-softened-up-by-a-flower.html |title=Film; Never Too Tough to Be Softened Up by a Flower |last=Ramsey |first=Nancy |page=22 |date=22 July 2001 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=20 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920234015/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/movies/film-never-too-tough-to-be-softened-up-by-a-flower.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The project received lukewarm reviews, which suggested that it added "nothing new to this already saturated genre" of [[Britcom|British feel-good films]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/greenfingers/ |title=Greenfingers (2000) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=22 February 2016 |archive-date=22 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422081631/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/greenfingers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The same year she acted in ''[[The Pledge (film)|The Pledge]]'', [[Sean Penn]]'s third directorial effort, in which she played a child psychologist. A critical success,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1104203-pledge |title=The Pledge (2001) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=22 February 2016 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306015047/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1104203-pledge |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[ensemble film]] tanked at the box office.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1332122.stm |title=US directors laud Cannes audiences |date=15 May 2001 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 January 2011 |archive-date=7 July 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040707163823/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/1332122.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Also that year, she filmed the American-Icelandic satirical drama ''[[No Such Thing (film)|No Such Thing]]'' opposite [[Sarah Polley]]. Directed by [[Hal Hartley]], Mirren portrayed a soulless television producer in the film, who strives for sensationalistic stories. It was largely panned by critics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_such_thing/ |title=No Such Thing (2001) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=22 February 2016 |archive-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310124457/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_such_thing/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Nicholas Hilliard (called) - Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Mirren won the [[Primetime Emmy Award]] for portraying [[Elizabeth I]] in the [[Elizabeth I (2005 miniseries)|HBO limited series of the same name]] in 2005]] 
Mirren's biggest critical and commercial success became [[Robert Altman]]'s all-star ensemble mystery film ''[[Gosford Park]]'' (2001). A [[homage (arts)|homage]] to writer [[Agatha Christie]]'s [[whodunit]] style, the story follows a party of wealthy Britons and an American, and their servants, who gather for a shooting weekend at an [[English country house]], resulting in an unexpected murder. It received multiple awards and nominations, including a second [[Academy Award]] nomination and first [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role|Screen Actors Guild Award]] win for Mirren's portrayal of the sternly devoted head servant Mrs. Wilson.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/gosford-park-big-winner-article-1.485902 |title='Gosford Park' Big Winner |first=Jack |last=Mathews |date=11 March 2002 |newspaper=New York Daily News |access-date=22 February 2016 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303035637/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/gosford-park-big-winner-article-1.485902 |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren's last film that year was [[Fred Schepisi]]'s dramedy film ''[[Last Orders (film)|Last Orders]]'' opposite [[Michael Caine]] and [[Bob Hoskins]].<ref name="Mirren roles"/> In 2003, Mirren starred in [[Nigel Cole]]'s comedy ''[[Calendar Girls]]'', inspired by the true story of a group of [[Yorkshire]] women who produced a [[nude calendar]] to raise money for [[Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research|Leukaemia Research]] under the auspices of the [[Women's Institutes]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/helen-mirrens-calendar-girls/ |title=Helen Mirren's ''Calendar Girls'' |first=Rome |last=Neal |date=24 December 2003 |website=[[CBS News]] |access-date=17 October 2010 |archive-date=21 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921231811/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/23/earlyshow/leisure/main590034.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren initially was reluctant to join the project, dismissing it as another middling British picture,<ref name="mc1">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH8ul00awHo | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504225925/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH8ul00awHo&feature=related| archive-date=2017-05-04|title=2009&nbsp;– Movie Connections&nbsp;– Calendar Girls (2/4) |author=[[Movie Connections]] |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=17 October 2010}}</ref> but rethought her decision upon learning of the casting of co-star [[Julie Walters]].<ref name="mc1"/> The film was generally well received by critics, and grossed $96 million worldwide.<ref name="bom">{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=calendargirls.htm |title=Calendar Girls (2003) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=17 October 2010 |archive-date=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607001250/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=calendargirls.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, the picture earned [[Satellite Award|Satellite]], [[Golden Globe]], and [[European Film Award]] nominations for Mirren.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337909/awards |title=Awards for ''Calendar Girls'' |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=14 February 2008 |archive-date=7 February 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207231710/http://imdb.com/title/tt0337909/awards |url-status=live }}</ref> Her other film that year was the [[Showtime Networks|Showtime]] television film ''[[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003 film)|The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone]]'' opposite [[Olivier Martinez]], and [[Anne Bancroft]], based on the 1950 novel of the same title by [[Tennessee Williams]].

During her career, Mirren has portrayed three British queens in different films and television series: [[Elizabeth I]] in the television series ''[[Elizabeth I (2005 TV series)|Elizabeth I]]'' (2005), [[Elizabeth II]] in ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]'' (2006), and [[Queen Charlotte|Charlotte]] in ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994). She is the only actor to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth on the screen.<ref name="BBC 2014"/> For ''Elizabeth I'', she received an [[Emmy Award]] and a [[Golden Globe Award]]. For ''The Queen'', she won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]], the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|BAFTA]], and a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe]], among many other awards. During her acceptance speech at the Academy Award ceremony, she praised and thanked Elizabeth II and stated that she had maintained her dignity and weathered many storms during her reign. Mirren won another Emmy Award on 16 September 2007 for her role in ''[[Prime Suspect|Prime Suspect: The Final Act]]'' on PBS in the same category as in 2006. Mirren hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on 9 April 2011.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://watching-tv.ew.com/2011/04/10/saturday-night-live-helen-mirren-foo-fighters/ |title='Saturday Night Live' recap: Helen Mirren transcended a laugh-lite 'SNL' |last=Tucker |first=Ken |date=10 April 2011 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=30 December 2013 |archive-date=30 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232929/http://watching-tv.ew.com/2011/04/10/saturday-night-live-helen-mirren-foo-fighters/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren later appeared in supporting roles in the films ''[[National Treasure: Book of Secrets]]'' (2007), ''[[Inkheart (film)|Inkheart]]'' (2008), ''[[State of Play (film)|State of Play]]'' (2009), and ''[[The Last Station]]'' (2009), for which she was nominated for an Oscar.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/nominees.html |title=Nominees & Winners for the 82nd Academy Awards |date=24 August 2012 |website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=30 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411210003/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/nominees.html |archive-date=11 April 2010}}</ref>

=== 2007–2019: Established actress ===
[[File:HelenMirrenHWOFJan2013.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Mirren at the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 2013]]
In 2007, Mirren said that the director [[Michael Winner]] had treated her "like a piece of meat" at a [[Casting (performing arts)|casting call]] in 1964.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10033802/David-Cameron-keeps-his-distance-from-film-director-Michael-Winner.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10033802/David-Cameron-keeps-his-distance-from-film-director-Michael-Winner.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=David Cameron keeps his distance from film director Michael Winner |last=Walker |first=Tim |date=3 May 2013 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=30 December 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Asked about the incident, Winner told ''[[The Guardian]]'', "I don't remember asking her to turn around but if I did I wasn't being serious. I was only doing what the [casting] agent asked me&nbsp;– and for this I get reviled! Helen's a lovely person, she's a great actor and I'm a huge fan, but her memory of that moment is a little flawed."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/10/16/susan-sarandon-gwyneth-paltrow-charlize-theron-more-casting-couch-horror-stories-photos.html |title=Susan Sarandon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlize Theron & More Casting Couch Horror Stories |date=16 November 2012 |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=20 October 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020104842/http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/10/16/susan-sarandon-gwyneth-paltrow-charlize-theron-more-casting-couch-horror-stories-photos.html |archive-date=20 October 2012}}</ref> In 2010, Mirren appeared in five films. In ''[[Love Ranch]]'', directed by her husband [[Taylor Hackford]], she portrayed [[Joe Conforte|Sally Conforte]], one half of a married couple who opened the first legal [[brothel]] in the US, the [[Mustang Ranch]] in [[Storey County, Nevada]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/04/helen_mirrens_brothel_movie_to.html |title=Helen Mirren's Brothel Movie to Open |last=Brown |first=Lane |date=6 April 2010 |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=15 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315101507/https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/04/helen_mirrens_brothel_movie_to.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren starred in the principal role of [[Prospero|Prospera]], the duchess of [[Milan]], in [[Julie Taymor]]'s ''[[The Tempest (2010 film)|The Tempest]]''. This was based on the [[The Tempest|play of the same name]] by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]; Taymor changed the original character's gender to cast Mirren as her lead.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7658628.stm |title=Mirren 'to star in Tempest film' |date=8 October 2008 |website=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111152135/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7658628.stm |archive-date=11 January 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> While the actor garnered strong reviews for her portrayal, the film itself was largely panned by critics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tempest |title=The Tempest (2010) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=27 January 2010 |archive-date=19 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819041418/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tempest |url-status=live }}</ref>

Mirren played a gutsy tea-shop owner who tries to save one of her young employees from marrying a teenage killer in [[Rowan Joffé]]'s ''[[Brighton Rock (2010 film)|Brighton Rock]]'', a [[crime film]] loosely based on [[Graham Greene]]'s 1938 [[Brighton Rock (novel)|novel]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/film/features/9106/helen-mirren?DCMP=OTC-RSS- |title=Helen Mirren: Interview |first=Ben |last=Walters |date=2 June 2015 |magazine=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] |access-date=18 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128223000/http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/film/features/9106/helen-mirren?DCMP=OTC-RSS- |archive-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> The [[film noir]] [[Film premiere|premiered]] at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]] in September 2010,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.movieline.com/2010/09/at-tiff-brighton-rock-extends-the-graham-greene-adaptation-curse.php |title=At TIFF: ''Brighton Rock'' Extends the Graham Greene Adaptation Curse |first=Michelle |last=Orange |date=13 September 2010 |website=[[Movieline]] |access-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916205701/http://www.movieline.com/2010/09/at-tiff-brighton-rock-extends-the-graham-greene-adaptation-curse.php |archive-date=16 September 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> where it received mixed reviews.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/movies/brighton-rock-film-of-graham-greene-novel-review.html |title=A Meek Rose Amid the Mods and Rockers in an English Resort Town |first=Stephen |last=Holden |author-link=Stephen Holden |date=25 August 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=27 August 2011 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=10 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110232458/http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/movies/brighton-rock-film-of-graham-greene-novel-review.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren's biggest critical and commercial success of the year was [[Robert Schwentke]]'s ensemble action comedy ''[[Red (2010 film)|Red]]'', based on [[Warren Ellis]]'s graphic novel, in which she portrayed Victoria, an ex-[[MI6]] assassin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/04/casting-notes-alan-cumming-in-burlesque-mirren-does-espionage-dempsey-steals-laughs-weaver-and-shawkat-hit-cedar-rapids/ |title=Casting Notes: Alan Cumming in Burlesque; Mirren Does Espionage; Dempsey Steals Laughs; Weaver and Shawkat Hit Cedar Rapids |first=Russ |last=Fischer |date=4 November 2009 |website=[[/Film]] |access-date=19 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122185818/http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/04/casting-notes-alan-cumming-in-burlesque-mirren-does-espionage-dempsey-steals-laughs-weaver-and-shawkat-hit-cedar-rapids/ |archive-date=22 January 2010}}</ref> Mirren was initially hesitant to sign on due to film's graphic violence, but changed her mind upon learning of [[Bruce Willis]]'s involvement.<ref name="ft">{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/b783e5fe-d7e5-11df-b044-00144feabdc0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b783e5fe-d7e5-11df-b044-00144feabdc0.html/ |archive-date=10 December 2022 |title=Majestic Mirren |first=Emanuel |last=Levy |date=15 October 2010 |newspaper=[[Financial Times]] |location=London |access-date=18 January 2016 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Released to positive reviews, it grossed $186.5 million worldwide.<ref name="mojo" >{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=red2010.htm |title=RED (2010) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=25 March 2011 |archive-date=13 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713062345/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=red2010.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Also in 2010, the actor lent her voice to [[Zack Snyder]]'s animated fantasy film ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'', voicing [[antagonist]] Nyra, a leader of a group of owls. The film grossed $140.1 million on an $80 million budget.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=guardiansofgahoole.htm |title=Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=15 May 2011 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727163444/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=guardiansofgahoole.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren's next film was the comedy film ''[[Arthur (2011 film)|Arthur]]'', a remake of the 1981 [[Arthur (1981 film)|film of the same name]], starring [[Russell Brand]] in the lead role. ''Arthur'' received generally negative reviews from critics, who declared it an "irritating, unnecessary remake".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/arthur_2011/ |title=Arthur (2011) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=19 May 2013 |archive-date=13 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513223026/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/arthur_2011/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In preparation for her role as a retired Israeli [[Mossad]] agent in the film ''[[The Debt (2011 film)|The Debt]]'', Mirren reportedly immersed herself in studies of Hebrew language, Jewish history, and [[Holocaust]] writing, including the life of [[Simon Wiesenthal]], while in Israel in 2009 for the filming of some of the movie's scenes. The film is a remake of a [[The Debt (2007 film)|2007 Israeli film of the same name]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/mirren-learning-hebrew-for-movie-role_1096343 |title=Mirren Learning Hebrew For Movie Role |date=27 February 2009 |website=[[ContactMusic.com]] |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606110822/https://www.contactmusic.com/helen-mirren/news/mirren-learning-hebrew-for-movie-role_1096343 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, Mirren played [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s wife [[Alma Reville]] in the 2012 biopic ''[[Hitchcock (film)|Hitchcock]]'' based on [[Stephen Rebello]]'s non-fiction book ''[[Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho]]''. The film centres on the pair's relationship during the making of ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'', a controversial [[horror film]] that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. It became a moderate arthouse success and garnered a lukewarm critical response from critics, who felt that it suffered from "tonal inconsistency and a lack of truly insightful retrospection."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/hitchcock |title=Hitchcock (2012) |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=2 March 2015 |archive-date=25 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225060018/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hitchcock |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren was universally praised, however, with [[Roger Ebert]] noting that the film depended most on her portrayal, which he found to be "warm and effective".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20121120%2FREVIEWS%2F121129996 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=20 November 2012 |title=Hitchcock |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date=21 November 2012 |archive-date=27 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127172340/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20121120%2FREVIEWS%2F121129996 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Her other film that year was ''[[The Door (2012 film)|The Door]]'', a claustrophobic drama film directed by [[István Szabó]], based on the Hungarian novel of the same name. Set at the height of [[communist]] rule in 1960s Hungary, the story of the adaptation centres on the abrasive influence that a mysterious housekeeper wields over her employer and successful novelist, played [[Martina Gedeck]]. Mirren found the role "difficult to play" and cited doing it as "one of the hardest things [she has] ever done".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/mirren-steps-through-a-new-door-20120718-22ahn.html |title=Mirren steps through a new door |first=Philippa |last=Hawker |date=19 July 2012 |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date=18 January 2016 |archive-date=20 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720230242/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/mirren-steps-through-a-new-door-20120718-22ahn.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Queen Elizabeth II March 2015 cropped.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Mirren has portrayed Queen [[Elizabeth II]] across film and stage in ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]'' (2006) and ''[[The Audience (2013 play)|The Audience]]'' (2013).]]
On 15 February 2013, at the West End's [[Gielgud Theatre]] she began a turn as [[Elizabeth II]] in the World Premiere of [[Peter Morgan]]'s ''[[The Audience (2013 play)|The Audience]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hitthetheatre.co.uk/showEvent.php?cat=&&id=3613 |title=The Audience |website=Hit The Theatre.co.uk |access-date=30 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116232730/http://www.hitthetheatre.co.uk/showEvent.php?cat=&&id=3613 |archive-date=16 January 2013}}</ref> The show was directed by [[Stephen Daldry]]. Michael Billington of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote of her performance, "who once again gives a faultless performance that transcends mere impersonation to endow the monarch with a sense of inner life and a quasi-Shakespearean aura of solitude."<ref>{{cite web|last1= Billington|first1= Michael|url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/mar/05/the-audience-review-helen-mirren|title= The Audience - review|website= The Guardian|date= 5 March 2013|accessdate= November 20, 2024}}</ref> In April she was named best actress at the [[Olivier Awards]] for her role.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.3news.co.nz/Helen-Mirren-crowned-queen-of-the-stage/tabid/418/articleID/296008/Default.aspx |title=Helen Mirren crowned queen of the stage |date=30 April 2013 |website=[[3 News]] |access-date=20 October 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233730/http://www.3news.co.nz/Helen-Mirren-crowned-queen-of-the-stage/tabid/418/articleID/296008/Default.aspx |archive-date=30 December 2013}}</ref> On 7 June 2015‚ Mirren won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play‚ for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in ''The Audience'' (a performance which also won her the [[Laurence Olivier Award]] for Best Actress). Her Tony Award win made her one of the few actors to achieve the US "[[Triple Crown of Acting#Helen Mirren|Triple Crown of Acting]]", joining the ranks of acclaimed performers including [[Ingrid Bergman]]‚ Dame [[Maggie Smith]], and [[Al Pacino]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5-reasons-we-want-to-celebrate-helen-mirrens-70th-birthday-with-her_55b0f7d4e4b08f57d5d3c417 |work=Huffington Post |title=7 reasons to love Helen Mirren on her 70th birthday |access-date=18 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023072002/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5-reasons-we-want-to-celebrate-helen-mirrens-70th-birthday-with-her_55b0f7d4e4b08f57d5d3c417 |archive-date=23 October 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The following year, Mirren replaced [[Bette Midler]] in [[David Mamet]]'s biographical television film ''[[Phil Spector (film)|Phil Spector]]'' about [[Phil Spector|the American musician]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/22/phil-spector-s-jersey-girl-lawyer-meet-the-real-linda-kenney-baden.html |title=Phil Spector's Jersey Girl Lawyer: Meet the Real Linda Kenney Baden |first=Lloyd |last=Grove |date=22 March 2013 |website=[[The Daily Beast]] |access-date=5 June 2013 |archive-date=28 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160228181020/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/22/phil-spector-s-jersey-girl-lawyer-meet-the-real-linda-kenney-baden.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[HBO]] film focuses on the relationship between Spector and his defence attorney Linda Kenney Baden, played by Mirren, during the first of his two [[Phil Spector#Murder conviction|murder trials for the death in 2003]] of [[Lana Clarkson]] in his California mansion. ''Spector'' received largely mixed to positive reviews from critics, particularly for Mirren and co-star [[Al Pacino]]'s performances, and was nominated for eleven [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s, also winning Mirren a [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie|Screen Actors Guild Award]] at the [[20th Screen Actors Guild Awards|20th awards ceremony]]. The film drew criticism both from Clarkson's family and friends, who charged that the suicide defence was given more merit than it deserved, and from Spector's wife, who argued that Spector was portrayed as a "foul-mouthed megalomaniac" and a "minotaur".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/friends_of_lana_clarkson_protest_hbo_film_phil_spector/ |title=Friends of Lana Clarkson protest HBO film "Phil Spector" |last=Gupta |first=Prachi |date=15 March 2013 |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |access-date=25 March 2013 |archive-date=24 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324151045/http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/friends_of_lana_clarkson_protest_hbo_film_phil_spector/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Also in 2013, Mirren voiced the character of Dean Abigail Hardscrabble in [[Pixar]]'s animated comedy film ''[[Monsters University]]'', which grossed $743 million against its estimated budget of $200 million,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=monstersinc2.htm |title=Monsters University (2013) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=20 December 2013 |archive-date=3 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503015430/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=monstersinc2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and reprised her role in the sequel film ''[[Red 2 (film)|Red 2]]''.<ref name="Mirren">{{cite web |url=http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/03/29/helen-mirren-red-movie-sequel/ |title=Helen Mirren Says She's Ready For 'Red' Sequel: 'Just Get Me The Script' |last=Warner |first=Kara |date=29 March 2011 |website=[[MTV News]] |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515150701/http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/03/29/helen-mirren-red-movie-sequel/ |archive-date=15 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The action comedy received a mixed reviews from film critics, who called it a "lackadaisical sequel",<ref name="TheWrap">{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/red-2-review-bruce-willis-sequel-dies-hard-lands-dull-thud-102681 |title='Red 2' Review: Bruce Willis Sequel Dies Hard, Lands With Dull Thud |last=Gilchrist |first=Todd |date=15 July 2013 |website=[[The Wrap]] |access-date=18 July 2013 |archive-date=18 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718125410/http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/red-2-review-bruce-willis-sequel-dies-hard-lands-dull-thud-102681 |url-status=live }}</ref> but became another commercial success, making over $140 million worldwide.<ref name="BOM">{{cite web |title=Red 2 (2013) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=red2.htm |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=19 July 2013 |archive-date=22 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722145637/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=red2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Mirren's only film of 2014 was the comedy-drama ''[[The Hundred-Foot Journey (film)|The Hundred-Foot Journey]]'' opposite the Indian actor [[Om Puri]]. Directed by [[Lasse Hallström]] and produced by [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Oprah Winfrey]], the film is based on [[Richard C. Morais]]'s 2010 novel [[The Hundred-Foot Journey|with the same name]] and tells the story of a feud between two adjacent restaurants in a French town. Mirren garnered largely positive reviews for her performance of a snobby restaurateur, a role which she accepted as she was keen to play a French character, reflecting her "pathetic attempt at being a French actress."<ref name="collider1">{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/helen-mirren-hundred-foot-journey-trumbo-interview/ |title=Helen Mirren Talks 'The Hundred-Foot Journey', Working with Om Puri, What She Looks For in Choosing Projects, 'Trumbo', and More |last1=Roberts |first1=Sheila |date=31 July 2014 |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |access-date=18 January 2016 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314080711/http://collider.com/helen-mirren-hundred-foot-journey-trumbo-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The film earned her another [[Golden Globe]] nomination and became a modest commercial success, grossing $88.9 million worldwide.<ref name=BOM2>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=100foot.htm |title=The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=1 December 2014 |archive-date=28 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128103326/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=100foot.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2015, Mirren reunited with her former assistant [[Simon Curtis (filmmaker)|Simon Curtis]] on ''[[Woman in Gold (film)|Woman in Gold]]'', co-starring [[Ryan Reynolds]].<ref name="collider1"/> The film was based on the true story of Jewish refugee [[Maria Altmann]] who, together with her young lawyer [[E. Randol Schoenberg|Randy Schoenberg]], fought the Austrian government to be reunited with [[Gustav Klimt]]'s painting of her aunt, the famous ''[[Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gustav-klimt-birthday-woman-in-gold_55a52d3de4b0a47ac15d61af |title=Gustav Klimt Painted Much More Than 'The Woman In Gold' |last1=Valentine |first1=Colin |date=14 July 2015 |website=[[HuffPost]] Arts & Culture |access-date=7 August 2015 |archive-date=17 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717050133/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gustav-klimt-birthday-woman-in-gold_55a52d3de4b0a47ac15d61af |url-status=live }}</ref> The film received mixed reviews from critics, although Mirren and Reynold's performances were widely praised.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woman in Gold (2015) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/woman_in_gold/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=7 August 2015 |archive-date=26 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126200214/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/woman_in_gold |url-status=live }}</ref> A commercial success, ''Woman in Gold'' became one of the highest-grossing specialty films of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/the-20-highest-grossing-indies-of-2015-a-running-list-1 |title=The 20 Highest Grossing Indies of 2015 (A Running List) |first=Kate |last=Erbland |date=29 December 2015 |website=Indiewire |access-date=18 January 2016 |archive-date=15 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115061703/http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-20-highest-grossing-indies-of-2015-a-running-list-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> The same year, Mirren appeared in [[Gavin Hood]]'s thriller ''[[Eye in the Sky (2015 film)|Eye in the Sky]]'' (2015), in which she played as a military intelligence officer who leads a secret [[Unmanned combat aerial vehicle|drone]] mission to capture a terrorist group living in [[Nairobi, Kenya]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/aaron-paul-helen-mirren-join-colin-firth-in-thriller-eye-in-the-sky/ |title=Aaron Paul, Helen Mirren Join Colin Firth in Thriller 'Eye in the Sky' |last1=Sneider |first1=Jeff |date=16 May 2014 |website=The Wrap |access-date=7 August 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729062523/http://www.thewrap.com/aaron-paul-helen-mirren-join-colin-firth-in-thriller-eye-in-the-sky/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren's last film that year was [[Jay Roach]]'s biographical drama ''[[Trumbo (2015 film)|Trumbo]]'', co-starring [[Bryan Cranston]] and [[Diane Lane]]. The actor played [[Hedda Hopper]], the famous actress and [[gossip columnist]], in the film, which received generally positive reviews from critics and garnered her a 14th Golden Globe nomination.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/trumbo/ |title=Trumbo (2015) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=4 January 2016 |archive-date=28 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128003104/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/trumbo |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Helen Mirren-2316.jpg|thumb|right|Mirren at [[Berlinale]] in 2020]]
Mirren's only film of 2016 was ''[[Collateral Beauty]]'', directed by [[David Frankel]]. Co-Starring [[Will Smith]], [[Keira Knightley]], and [[Kate Winslet]], the ensemble drama follows a man who copes with his daughter's death by writing letters to [[time]], [[death]], and [[love]]. The film earned largely negative reviews from critics, who called it "well-meaning but fundamentally flawed."<ref name="reviews">{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/will-smith-collateral-beauty-lowest-box-office-opening-rotten-tomatoes-1201873153/ |title=How Critics' "Schoolyard Assault" On 'Collateral Beauty' Turned Ugly For Will Smith Pic |first=Anthony |last=D'Alessandro |date=18 December 2016 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date=31 December 2016 |archive-date=1 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101005013/http://deadline.com/2016/12/will-smith-collateral-beauty-lowest-box-office-opening-rotten-tomatoes-1201873153/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=reviews2>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/12/13/collateral-beauty-reviews-roundup/ |title=Collateral Beauty reviews: Will Smith movie slammed by critics |first=Danielle |last=Jackson |date=13 December 2016 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=31 December 2016 |archive-date=1 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101165300/http://ew.com/article/2016/12/13/collateral-beauty-reviews-roundup/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, Mirren narrated ''[[Cries from Syria]]'', a [[documentary film]] about the [[Syrian Civil War]], directed by [[Evgeny Afineevsky]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/markets-festivals/hbo-cries-from-syria-1201957096/ |title=HBO Nabs 'Cries From Syria' Documentary Ahead of Sundance |first=Brent |last=Lang |date=10 January 2017 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=25 February 2017 |archive-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225132555/http://variety.com/2017/film/markets-festivals/hbo-cries-from-syria-1201957096/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Also that year, she made an uncredited [[cameo appearance]] in [[F. Gary Gray]]'s ''[[The Fate of the Furious]]'', the eighth instalment in the [[The Fast and the Furious|''Fast & Furious'']] franchise, playing Magdalene, the mother of Owen and [[Deckard Shaw]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1635570/how-helen-mirren-ended-up-in-the-fate-of-the-furious-according-to-vin-diesel |title=How Helen Mirren Ended Up In The Fate Of The Furious, According To Vin Diesel |first=Gregory |last=Wakeman |date=14 March 2017 |website=CinemaBlend |access-date=25 October 2017 |archive-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623112824/https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1635570/how-helen-mirren-ended-up-in-the-fate-of-the-furious-according-to-vin-diesel |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren had a larger role in director [[Paolo Virzì]]'s English-language debut ''[[The Leisure Seeker]]'', based on the [[The Leisure Seeker (novel)|2009 novel of the same name]]. On set, she was reunited with [[Donald Sutherland]] with whom she had not worked again since ''[[Bethune: The Making of a Hero]]'' (1990),<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/cannes-helen-mirren-and-donald-sutherland-to-topline-paolo-virzis-the-leisure-seeker-exclusive-1201772430/ |title=Cannes: Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland to Topline Paolo Virzì's 'The Leisure Seeker' |first1=Nick |last1=Vivarelli |first2=Elsa |last2=Keslassy |date=12 May 2016 |magazine=Variety |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=7 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707225752/https://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/cannes-helen-mirren-and-donald-sutherland-to-topline-paolo-virzis-the-leisure-seeker-exclusive-1201772430/ |url-status=live }}</ref> portraying a terminally ill couple who escape from their retirement home and take one last cross-country adventure in a vintage van.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/helen-mirren-donald-sutherland-team-up-for-the-leisure-seeker-cannes-1201754273/ |title=Helen Mirren & Donald Sutherland Team For 'The Leisure Seeker' – Cannes |first=Ali |last=Jaafar |date=12 May 2016 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=2 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102162420/https://deadline.com/2016/05/helen-mirren-donald-sutherland-team-up-for-the-leisure-seeker-cannes-1201754273/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At the [[75th Golden Globe Awards|75th awards ceremony]], Mirren received her 15th [[Golden Globe]] nomination.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/golden-globe-nominations-2018-nominees-full-list-1202634435/ |title=Golden Globe Nominations: Complete List |first=Rebecca |last=Rubin |date=11 December 2017 |magazine=Variety |access-date=11 December 2017 |archive-date=14 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214021531/http://variety.com/2017/film/news/golden-globe-nominations-2018-nominees-full-list-1202634435/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2018, Mirren portrayed heiress [[Sarah Winchester]] in the supernatural horror film ''[[Winchester (film)|Winchester]]'', directed by [[The Spierig Brothers]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/helen-mirren-takes-aim-at-playing-firearm-heiress-in-hot-cannes-package-winchester-1201755962/ |title=Helen Mirren Takes Aim At Playing Firearm Heiress In Hot Cannes Package 'Winchester' |first=Mike Jr. |last=Fleming |date=14 May 2016 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=16 March 2017 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184437/https://deadline.com/2016/05/helen-mirren-takes-aim-at-playing-firearm-heiress-in-hot-cannes-package-winchester-1201755962/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the same year, she starred as Mother Ginger in Disney's adaptation of ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', titled ''[[The Nutcracker and the Four Realms]]'', directed by [[Lasse Hallström]] and [[Joe Johnston]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/helen-mirren-nutcracker-disney-1201844942/ |title=Helen Mirren Joins Disney's 'The Nutcracker' |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=25 August 2016 |magazine=Variety |access-date=1 April 2017 |archive-date=1 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401232621/http://variety.com/2016/film/news/helen-mirren-nutcracker-disney-1201844942/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, she appeared in the ensemble film ''[[Berlin, I Love You]]'', the French crime thriller film ''[[Anna (2019 feature film)|Anna]]'', directed and written by [[Luc Besson]], and co-starred in the ''Fast and the Furious'' spin-off ''[[Hobbs & Shaw]]''.<ref name="Oct2017V">{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/luc-besson-anna-helen-mirren-luke-evans-1202584144/ |title=Luc Besson Sets Next Film 'Anna' With Helen Mirren, Luke Evans |first1=Elsa |last1=Keslassy |last2=Kroll |first2=Justin |date=9 October 2017 |magazine=Variety |access-date=7 November 2017 |archive-date=9 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209211235/http://variety.com/2017/film/news/luc-besson-anna-helen-mirren-luke-evans-1202584144/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== 2020–present ===
In March 2021, Mirren was cast as the villain Hespera in the superhero film ''[[Shazam! Fury of the Gods]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=23 March 2021 |title='Shazam: Fury Of The Gods': Helen Mirren To Play Villain Hespera In Sequel |url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-helen-mirren-villain-hespera-zachary-levi-1234720297/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323221810/https://deadline.com/2021/03/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-helen-mirren-villain-hespera-zachary-levi-1234720297/ |archive-date=23 March 2021 |access-date=23 March 2021 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref>  She also appeared in the 2022 music video for [[Kendrick Lamar]]'s "[[Count Me Out (Kendrick Lamar song)|Count Me Out]]" as a therapist.<ref>{{citation |title=Kendrick Lamar – Count Me Out | date=16 December 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GhhVHpPR_M |access-date=22 December 2022 |archive-date=22 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222000623/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GhhVHpPR_M |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 2022, she portrays Cara Dutton in the ''[[Yellowstone (American TV series)|Yellowstone]]'' spinoff ''[[1923 (TV series)|1923]]'', which also features [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Timothy Dalton]]. Mirren portrayed [[Golda Meir]], prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974, in a 2023 [[biopic]] entitled ''[[Golda (film)|Golda]]''. Reviewing the film in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', [[Owen Gleiberman]] wrote that "Mirren makes her terse, decisive, and ferociously alive."<ref>{{cite web |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |title=Golda' Review: Helen Mirren Channels Golda Meir in a Tense Dramatization of the Yom Kippur War |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/golda-review-helen-mirren-golda-meir-1973-yom-kippur-war-1235529163/ |website=Variety |date=20 February 2023 |access-date=18 June 2023 |archive-date=18 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618202705/https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/golda-review-helen-mirren-golda-meir-1973-yom-kippur-war-1235529163/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She played the narrator in [[Greta Gerwig]]'s satirical comedy ''[[Barbie (2023 film)|Barbie]]'' (2023).<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/helen-mirren-barbie-movie-trailer|title= Helen Mirren Confirms That Was Her in the Barbie Trailer—And There's More|magazine= Vanity Fair|accessdate= November 20, 2024}}</ref>

==Personal life==
=== Marriage and relationships ===
[[File:Helen Mirren figure at Madame Tussauds London.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Waxwork of Mirren at [[Madame Tussauds]], London]]
Mirren lived with actor [[Liam Neeson]] during the early 1980s; they met while working on ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' (1981). Neeson said Mirren was instrumental in his getting an agent.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Scott |date=2024-07-06 |title=Why Liam Neeson owes his entire career to Helen Mirren |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-liam-neeson-owes-his-entire-career-to-helen-mirren/ |access-date=2025-09-13 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cooper |first=Anderson |date=2014-05-25 |title=Liam Neeson's success and sorrow |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liam-neesons-success-and-sorrow-2/ |access-date=2025-09-13 |work=CBS News 60 Minutes}}</ref>

In 1985 on the set of ''[[White Nights (1985 film)|White Nights]]'', Mirren met American director [[Taylor Hackford]].  The pair began dating in 1986. The couple married on 31 December 1997, Hackford's 53rd birthday, at the [[Ardersier]] Parish Church near [[Inverness]] in the [[Scottish Highlands]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/30/dame-helen-mirren-fights-sewage-plant-plan-in-quiet-fishing-vill/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/30/dame-helen-mirren-fights-sewage-plant-plan-in-quiet-fishing-vill/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Dame Helen Mirren fights sewage plant plan in quiet fishing village where she got married |date=30 May 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=20 January 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It is her first marriage and his third. He has two children from his previous marriages. She has no children herself, and has stated that she has "no maternal instinct whatsoever". She added, "I'm so happy I don't have children. But I do love children and I've got family, and Taylor has children that I'm involved with - and with great pleasure - but it's just not for me."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/mirren%20i%20have%20no%20maternal%20instinct_1023284 |title=Mirren: 'I Have No Maternal Instinct' |date=26 February 2007 |website=Contactmusic.com |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=9 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709020458/http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/mirren%20i%20have%20no%20maternal%20instinct_1023284 |url-status=live }}</ref> Mirren's autobiography, ''In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures'', was published in the UK by [[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] in September 2007. Reviewing for ''[[The Stage]]'', John Thaxter wrote: "Sumptuously illustrated, at first sight it looks like another of those photo albums of the stars. But between the pictures there are almost 200 pages of densely printed text, an unusually frank story of her private and professional life, mainly in the theatre, the words clearly Mirren's own, delivered with forthright candour."<ref>{{cite news |title=In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures |last=Thaxter |first=John |date=1 November 2007 |newspaper=The Stage}}</ref>

=== Political views ===
In 2006, Mirren stated that she was never a member of any [[List of political parties in the United Kingdom|political party]], but had wanted to see the defeat of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] at the [[1997 UK general election]], calling them "appalling".<ref name="independent">{{cite web |title=Helen Mirren: Her crowning achievement |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/helen-mirren-her-crowning-achievement-412283.html |work=The Independent |first=Gerard|last=Gilbert|access-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708131908/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/helen-mirren-her-crowning-achievement-412283.html |archive-date=8 July 2022 |date=18 August 2006 |quote="I've never been a member of Labour, or any political party for that matter, but in 1997 I wanted to get rid of the Conservatives; wanted to get rid of that appalling lot." |url-status=live}}</ref> Mirren became a [[U.S. citizen]] in 2017 and voted in her first U.S. election in 2020.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/oscar-winner-tahoe-resident-helen-mirren-casts-1st-american-vote |title=Oscar winner, Tahoe resident Helen Mirren casts 1st American vote |date=15 October 2020 |newspaper=Tahoe Daily Tribune |access-date=17 October 2020 |archive-date=16 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016180946/https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/oscar-winner-tahoe-resident-helen-mirren-casts-1st-american-vote |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.recordcourier.com/news/the-queen-casts-her-ballot-in-minden/ |newspaper=[[Record-Courier (Nevada)|The Record-Courier]] |location=[[Gardnerville, Nevada]] |title='The Queen' casts her ballot in Minden |date=17 October 2020 |last=Hildebrand |first=Kurt |access-date=18 October 2020 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116061403/https://www.recordcourier.com/news/the-queen-casts-her-ballot-in-minden/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She supported Patricia Ackerman in her unsuccessful 2020 campaign against [[Mark Amodei]] in {{ushr|NV|2}}.<ref name="democrat">{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Hugh |title=Helen Mirren for governor |url=https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/20/helen-mirren-for-governor/ |publisher=Nevada Current |access-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022204617/https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/20/helen-mirren-for-governor/ |archive-date=22 October 2020 |date=22 October 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> 

In an interview with [[Israel]]'s [[Channel 12 (Israel)|Channel 12]] in August 2023, Mirren expressed support for the country's existence, stating, "I believe in Israel because of [[the Holocaust]]." She said she opposed the direction the country was being taken by the [[Thirty-seventh government of Israel|Israeli government]] and its proposed [[2023 Israeli judicial reform|judicial reform]], but also opposed a cultural boycott and remained firmly supportive of the state. Reflecting on her first visit to Israel after the [[Six-Day War]] in 1967, she recalled, "I witnessed things that were wrong. I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here."<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 August 2023 |title=Helen Mirren: Israel must exist 'for eternity' because of the Holocaust |website=[[The Times of Israel]] |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/helen-mirren-israel-must-exist-for-eternity-because-of-the-holocaust/ |access-date=1 March 2024 |archive-date=1 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301191758/https://www.timesofisrael.com/helen-mirren-israel-must-exist-for-eternity-because-of-the-holocaust/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 2021, Mirren took part in the [[music video]] "La Vacinada" (meaning ''the vaccinated woman'' in broken [[Spanish language]]) of Italian comedian and singer [[Checco Zalone]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/checco-zalone-pokes-fun-at-helen-mirrens-age-in-viral-video-9xgd0q99d| title=Checco Zalone pokes fun at Helen Mirren's age in viral video| newspaper=[[The Times]]| location=London| date=1 May 2021| access-date=2 May 2021| url-access=subscription| archive-date=2 May 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502051609/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/checco-zalone-pokes-fun-at-helen-mirrens-age-in-viral-video-9xgd0q99d| url-status=live}}</ref> In the song and video, Zalone jokes about the fact that, in times of [[COVID-19 pandemic]], it is safer to have an [[affair]] with someone who has already been [[vaccinated]] against the [[virus]], and as [[the elderly]] get vaccinated first, an older partner (played by Mirren in the video) is now the best choice.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/30/helen-mirren-joins-italys-best-known-comic-light-hearted-sketch/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/30/helen-mirren-joins-italys-best-known-comic-light-hearted-sketch/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title='The Telegraph' recap: Helen Mirren joins Italy's best known comic in light-hearted sketch to promote Covid-19 vaccine |last=Squires |first=Nick |date=30 April 2021 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | location=London |access-date=30 April 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== Health and beliefs ===
In 1990, Mirren said in an interview that she was an [[Atheism|atheist]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Sunday Review Pages: Helen Mirren interview |last=Garfield |first=Simon |date=25 November 1990 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |page=27 |quote=Sometimes I feel like a farmer during a war, someone who doesn't know very much about it and carries on digging, hoping for rain. But just the last few days I've had this terrible feeling of... doom. It's a, er, [[Bible|biblical]], kind of [[Old Testament]] feeling. I'm an atheist, but I was suddenly thinking of those stories of the flood and punishment. Because we've become unbelievably greedy and destructive.}}</ref> In the August 2011 issue of ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', she said, "I am quite spiritual. I believed in fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the [[fairies]]. And the [[leprechauns]]. But I don't believe in God."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/helen-mirren-quotes-0811 |title=Helen Mirren: What I've Learned |last=Fussman |first=Cal |date=7 July 2011 |magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |access-date=8 January 2013 |archive-date=17 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117095312/http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/helen-mirren-quotes-0811 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a 2008 interview with ''[[GQ]]'', Mirren said she was [[date rape]]d as a student, and had often used [[cocaine]] at parties in her twenties and until the 1980s.<ref name=cnn>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/09/01/helen.mirren.rape/index.html |title=Dame Helen Mirren in date-rape revelation |date=1 September 2008 |work=[[CNN]] |access-date=1 September 2008 |archive-date=2 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902005550/http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/09/01/helen.mirren.rape/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=indie>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mirren-talks-of-her-daterapes-then-provokes-furore-with-views-on-sex-attackers-914596.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mirren-talks-of-her-daterapes-then-provokes-furore-with-views-on-sex-attackers-914596.html |archive-date=9 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Mirren talks of her date-rapes, then provokes furore with views on sex attackers |first=Jerome |last=Taylor |date=1 September 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=1 September 2008}}</ref> She stopped using it after reading that [[Klaus Barbie]] made a living from cocaine dealing.<ref name=cnn/><ref name=indie/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7591142.stm |title=Dame Helen in cocaine admission |date=1 September 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=12 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912145136/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7591142.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2656943/The-Queen-actress-Dame-Helen-Mirren-reveals-former-love-of-cocaine.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901101327/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2656943/The-Queen-actress-Dame-Helen-Mirren-reveals-former-love-of-cocaine.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 September 2008 |title='The Queen' actress Dame Helen Mirren reveals former love of cocaine |last=Simpson |first=Aislinn |date=31 August 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref>

Mirren told ''[[Radio Times]]'', "I'm a [[naturism|naturist]] at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly people, beautiful people, old people, whatever. It's so unisexual and so liberating."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-09-19/celebrity-nudists-the-stars-who-like-to-let-it-all-hang-out |title=Celebrity nudists: the stars who like to let it all hang out |date=19 September 2014 |magazine=Radio Times |location=London |access-date=26 August 2015 |archive-date=11 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811031725/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-09-19/celebrity-nudists-the-stars-who-like-to-let-it-all-hang-out |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2004, she was named Naturist of the Year by [[British Naturism]]. She said: "Many thanks to British Naturism for this great honour. I do believe in naturism and am my happiest on a nude beach with people of all ages and races!"<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.bn.org.uk/articles.php/_/news/pressreleases/dame-helen-mirren-named-naturist-of-the-ye-r93 |title=Dame Helen Mirren named 'Naturist of the Year' |date=8 January 2012 |publisher=British Naturism |access-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004094251/http://www.bn.org.uk/articles.php/_/news/pressreleases/dame-helen-mirren-named-naturist-of-the-ye-r93 |archive-date=4 October 2015 }}</ref>

Mirren has described herself as "such a [[feminist]]".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jnen9zklpo | title=James Bond 'has to be a guy', says Helen Mirren | work=BBC News | first=Tabby | last=Wilson | date=18 August 2025 | access-date=18 August 2025}}</ref>

== Recognition and image ==
On 11 May 2010, Mirren attended the unveiling of her waxwork at [[Madame Tussauds]] in London. In 2012, she was among the British cultural icons selected by artist [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—[[the Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admired.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited |title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday |first=Caroline |last=Davies |date=2 April 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=5 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105095109/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-17583026 |title=Sir Peter Blake's new Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album cover |date=2 April 2012 |website=BBC News |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=3 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103234105/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17583026 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010, she was named Sexiest Woman Alive by ''Esquire'', and in a 2011 photo shoot for the magazine, she stripped down and covered up with the [[Union Jack]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Helen Mirren shows off her patriotism in Esquire photo shoot |date=15 July 2011 |url=https://uk.style.yahoo.com/helen-mirren-shows-off-her-patriotism-in-esquire-photo-shoot.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL-vIbYr3zdTdvehdRUc0lnYjJRXjrH4_m5WPohtumjKkQF5ZjHQLJtDu-wBH128akA-SIGhwuqIxJGGVah71ko93k0SrMjCBGWYNe6o4pAX1bMxdQKNuPUDWP0gRMadkT21jNy7mPWtoRB9gY_JEBadANEeCY_pMxeHk9kSdO2G |access-date=1 March 2022 |website=[[Yahoo!]] |archive-date=25 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625054050/https://uk.style.yahoo.com/helen-mirren-shows-off-her-patriotism-in-esquire-photo-shoot.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL-vIbYr3zdTdvehdRUc0lnYjJRXjrH4_m5WPohtumjKkQF5ZjHQLJtDu-wBH128akA-SIGhwuqIxJGGVah71ko93k0SrMjCBGWYNe6o4pAX1bMxdQKNuPUDWP0gRMadkT21jNy7mPWtoRB9gY_JEBadANEeCY_pMxeHk9kSdO2G |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2013, Mirren was one of several new models for [[Marks & Spencer]]'s "Womanism" campaign. Subtitled "Britain's leading ladies", the campaign featured Mirren alongside British women from various fields, including pop singer [[Ellie Goulding]], double Olympic gold medal-winning boxer [[Nicola Adams]], and writer [[Monica Ali]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2013/aug/19/marks-spencer-new-ad-annie-leibowitz |title=Marks & Spencer's new ad: what does it mean? |first=Lauren |last=Cochrane |date=19 August 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=7 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107015822/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2013/aug/19/marks-spencer-new-ad-annie-leibowitz |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2013, ''The Guardian'' listed Mirren as one of the 50 Best-Dressed Over 50.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2013/mar/29/50-best-dressed-over-50s |title=The 50 best-dressed over 50s |first=Jess |last=Cartner-Morley |date=29 March 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=20 October 2019 |archive-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110175602/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2013/mar/29/50-best-dressed-over-50s |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2024, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of [[International Women's Day]], Mirren was one of a number of female celebrities who had their likeness turned into [[Barbie|Barbie dolls]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/137652/helen-mirren-kylie-minogue-turned-into-barbie-dolls-international-womens-day|title=Helen Mirren and Kylie Minogue have Barbie dolls made for 65th anniversary and International Women's Day|date=6 March 2024|work=[[Virgin Radio UK]]|accessdate=18 March 2024|archive-date=18 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318235747/https://virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/137652/helen-mirren-kylie-minogue-turned-into-barbie-dolls-international-womens-day|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Acting credits and accolades ==
{{main|Helen Mirren on screen and stage|List of awards and nominations received by Helen Mirren}}

Among her major competitive awards, Mirren has won one [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]], four [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA Awards]], three [[Golden Globe Awards]], five [[Emmy Awards]], and one [[Tony Awards|Tony Award]]. She is the recipient of [[List of awards and nominations received by Helen Mirren|numerous accolades]] and is the only performer to have achieved both [[Triple Crown of Acting|the American]] and [[Triple Crown (UK entertainment)|the British]] Triple Crowns of Acting. Her numerous honorary awards include the [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] and Gala Tribute presented by the [[Film Society of Lincoln Center]]<ref name="bafta.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/helen-mirren-fellowship-2014,4076,BA.html |title=Dame Helen Mirren&nbsp;– BAFTA Fellow in 2014 |date=26 January 2014 |website=BAFTA |access-date=26 January 2014 |archive-date=25 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025132059/http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/helen-mirren-fellowship-2014,4076,BA.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/45th-chaplin-award-gala-will-honor-helen-mirren/ |title=45th Chaplin Award Gala Will Honor Helen Mirren |website=Film Society of Lincoln Center |date=14 October 2017 |access-date=5 November 2017 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107030632/https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/45th-chaplin-award-gala-will-honor-helen-mirren/ |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 2013,<ref name="Walk of fame">{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/story/1033143/helen-mirren-gets-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star |title=Helen Mirren Gets Hollywood Walk of Fame Star |date=4 January 2013 |website=[[Sky News]] |access-date=20 October 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116224406/http://news.sky.com/story/1033143/helen-mirren-gets-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star |archive-date=16 January 2013}}</ref> the [[Honorary Golden Bear]] in 2020,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2019/12/helen-mirren-berlin-film-festival-golden-bear-1202800247/|title= Berlin Film Festival To Fete Helen Mirren With Honorary Golden Bear & Homage|website= [[Deadline Hollywood]]|date= 4 December 2019|accessdate= November 21, 2024}}</ref> and [[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grater |first1=Tom |title=Helen Mirren To Receive SAG Life Achievement Award |url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/helen-mirren-sag-life-achievement-award-1234876685/ |website=Deadline |date=18 November 2021 |access-date=November 20, 2021 |archive-date=20 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120035425/https://deadline.com/2021/11/helen-mirren-sag-life-achievement-award-1234876685/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the [[2003 Birthday Honours|Queen's 2003 Birthday Honours]], Mirren was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) for services to drama, with [[investiture]] taking place at [[Buckingham Palace]] in December.<ref name="Damehood"/><ref name="Ceremony"/> For playing Jane Tennison in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s ''Prime Suspect'', in 2006, the British public ranked her number 29 in ITV's poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest Stars]].<ref name="ITV poll">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5142726.stm|title=ITV to salute '50 greatest stars'|date=3 July 2006|publisher=[[BBC News]]|access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref> In January 2009, Mirren was named on ''[[The Times]]''' list of the top 10 British actresses of all time. The list included [[Julie Andrews]], [[Helena Bonham Carter]], [[Judi Dench]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5502980.ece |title=The best British film actresses of all time |date=12 January 2009 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |first=James |last=Christopher |access-date=27 May 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=27 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127204102/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2021, Mirren was named by [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]] as an honoree of the [[Great Immigrants Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helen Mirren |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/helen-mirren/ |access-date=June 11, 2024 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2021 |title=Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors 34 Great Immigrants for Their Contributions to Our Democracy |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210630005084/en/Carnegie-Corporation-of-New-York-Honors-34-Great-Immigrants-for-Their-Contributions-to-Our-Democracy |access-date=June 18, 2021 |website=Business Wire}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book| last=Mirren| first=Helen| title=In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BoEtOA98XQAC| publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]| year=2011| isbn=978-1-4165-7341-8}}

==See also==
* [[List of British actors]]
* [[List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain]]
* [[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]]
* [[List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories]]
* [[List of Primetime Emmy Award winners]]
* [[List of Golden Globe winners]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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<ref name="VF2015">{{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/helen-mirren-nude-scene |title=Helen Mirren Reveals The One Nude Scene She Didn't Mind Filming |last=Miller |first=Julie |date=19 November 2015 |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=8 May 2016 |archive-date=18 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718230255/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/helen-mirren-nude-scene |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="peop_Hele">{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/article/helen-mirren-talks-nude-scenes |title=Helen Mirren Reveals Her Favorite Nude Scenes Were for Caligula: 'Everyone Was Naked' |last=McNiece |first=Mia |date=19 November 2015 |magazine=People |access-date=8 May 2016 |archive-date=20 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520102848/http://www.people.com/article/helen-mirren-talks-nude-scenes |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book| last=Ward| first=Philip| year=2019| title=Becoming Helen Mirren| publisher=Troubador Press| isbn=978-1-8385-9714-6| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zh-3DwAAQBAJ&q=becoming+helen+mirren| access-date=March 1, 2022}} A survey of the actor's early career.

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