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Helen Mirren
26 July 1945
Helen Mirren played in 38 movies in the Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music, Fantasy, Music, Adult, History, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror, Animation, Family, Musical, Documentary, Action, Short genres.
Helen Mirren got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
Her grandfather Piotr Vasilievich Mironoff was a Tsarist (White Russian) aristocrat who was in London negotiating an arms deal appropriate for the Area Engage in combat with I when the 1917 Russian Revolution stranded him there. His spouse and son (Helen's father) joined him in London.
Before marrying director Taylor Hackford in 1997, she had lived with him in Los Angeles since 1986.
Used to move in Southend on Oodles; Essex; UK at an amusement park "The Kursaal" as a "blagger" to entice customers on to rides.
... She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours Record for her services to drama.
John Boorman said he troupe her contrary Nicol Williamson in Excalibur (1981), against both of their protests, because he felt their dislike of each other made them superlative as rivals Morgana and Merlin.
Measurements: 36C-25-36 (starlet days), 38C-26-37 (on Prime Suspect (1991) (TV) - 1996), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
She allegedly refused the C.B.E. (Commander of State of affairs of the British Empire) in 1996.
Nominated for Greatest Actress, Laurence Olivier Place Prize for her performance of "Orpheus Descending" at the Donmar Warehouse. [2001]
Nominated in support of Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award against her performance in "Mourning Becomes Electra" at the Royal National Performance drama: Lyttelton Situation. [2004]
Became an Associate Fellow of RADA.
Nominated notwithstanding Outwit Actress, Tony Award for "Dance of Death" at hand August Strindberg. [2002]
Despite her Russian blood notability and ancestry, she is not facile in Russian.
Her great-great-significant-great-grandfather was field-marshal Kamensky, one of the Russian heroes of the Napoleonic wars.
She is the only actress to take part in both Movie queen Elizabeth I (in "Elizabeth I" (2005)) and Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen (2006)).
At the premiere of The Queen (2006) at the Venice Film Commemoration, her play received a 5 small fixed cheers.
Associate of the jury at the Venice Coating Holy day in 2004.
Played a Ruler a thoroughgoing of six times: The Queen (2006), "Elizabeth I" (2005), The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Snow Queen (1995), The Madness of King George (1994), and Caligola (1979).
Became the third human being, after Sigourney Weaver and Joan Plowright, to prevail upon two Golden Globes for acting in the same year. The characters she played were both Queens of England, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II.
She dedicated her BAFTA win for The Diva (2006) (also in behalf of Best Actress in a Paramount Situation) to Ian Richardson representing playing a enormous part in her success whodunit. She said (in her acceptance talking) that Richardson was remarkably supportive for her when she started out acting, and without him she may not have been so victorious. She dedicated this two days after Richardson died. [2007]
Nominated object of Best Actress, Tony Award notwithstanding "A Month in the Countryside" not later than Ivan Turgenev. [1995]
She and her preserve Taylor Hackford are both Oscar-winners.
Is fluent in French.
She owns houses in Los Angeles, London, and the south of France.
According to the April 2007 issue of Architectural Assimilate, She and her husband possess sold their mansion in Chic Orleans, which still remains her favorite American city.
She won an Oscar in the course of playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Epitome (2006), making her the most modern of eleven actors to win the Award for playing a real who was soundless alive at the evening of the Award conventions (as of 2007). The other ten actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy payment playing Sire Edward Flanagan in Boys Burgh (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Benjamin Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro object of playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Mama's boy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Extinct Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Fancy (1996), Julia Roberts by reason of playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000) and Jim Broadbent in the service of playing John Bayley in Iris (2001/I).
Was voted 2nd in Relief Weekly's Entertainers of the Year in December 2006.
Won Film Achievement, Greatest Britons. [2007]
Won 29 major awards for her portrayal of Cynosure Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), including all the awards that are considered the biggest (except Cannes). She was also nominated for 3 more awards for the same videotape.
Stepmother of Rio Hackford and Alexander Hackford.
Sister of Peter Basil Mironoff and Katherine Mironoff.
Daughter of Vasily Mironoff and Kathleen Rogers.
Is anyone of six actresses to bear won the Academy Presentation, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and Slide Award. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger in favour of Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon into Skulk the Line (2005), Jennifer Hudson for the treatment of Dreamgirls (2006) and Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008).
Has a tattoo of a star on her pink hand, acquired at a Autochthonous American reservation in Minnesota.
Met stillness-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights (1985). When the couple married in the Scottish Highlands, Hackford was dressed in a established Scottish tartan kilt.
According to an article in People Weekly (November 3, 1980) her tattoo is an American Indian symbol signification "equal but opposite".
Nominated for the 2002 Tony Award (New York Municipality) for Actress in a Drama for the sake "Cavort of Eradication".
Was in consideration for the into a receive of Sarah/Anna in The French Lieutenant's Lady (1981) but Meryl Streep, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was irregularity as a substitute for.
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