Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren (2020)

Dame Helen Mirren , DBE (* 26 July 1945 in London as Helen Lydia Mironoff) is a British actress of Russian origin . Among other things, she is a Golden Globe and Oscar winner.

Mirren is one of the great British actresses also in the classic role field and embodied various heroines of Shakespeare on stage . She became known to a wider audience for roles such as Morgana in Excalibur , Chris Harper in Calendar Girls, and starring Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears ' feature film The Queen , for which she was named Best Actress at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007. In Germany she was best known for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in the British crime series Hot Suspect (Prime Suspect) .

Life

Mirren was born in London as Helen Lydia Mironoff and was named Ilyena by the family. Her grandfather was a member of an aristocratic Russian family who fled into exile in England after the Russian Revolution . She is a direct descendant of Mikhail Kamensky . Her father worked as a taxi driver, freelance musician, and traveling teacher. In the 1950s he changed his family name to Mirren . Helen Mirren claims to have known at the age of six that she wanted to be not just an actress but a great actress “in the old traditional sense”. After a brief attempt to comply with her parents' wishes and attend vocational school for teachers, she decided to go to the theater.

In the early 1980s she was the partner of actor Liam Neeson , whom she met while filming Excalibur. Mirren has been married to director Taylor Hackford since December 31, 1997 . On December 5, 2003, she was elevated to the personal nobility as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She had turned down her first Commander of the British Empire (CBE) award in 1996. Helen Mirren has been an ambassador for the development aid organization Oxfam since 1998 and is particularly committed to its Control Arms campaign . In 2011 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Her nephew Simon Mirren is a screenwriter and television producer, the model and film actress Tania Mallet was her paternal cousin.

Career

At the age of 19, Helen Mirren was accepted into the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company , one of the youngest actresses to receive the honor. Helen Mirren gained international attention when she played the muse of the painter Bradley Monahan ( James Mason ) in the 1969 film The Girl from Coral Reef . Mirren received renewed attention in 1979 through the historical epic Caligula by Tinto Brass , which was apostrophized as a " scandal film " , in which she played the role of Caesonia . To this day, this film is classified as pornographic by many critics because the producer Bob Guccione had some of the nude scenes he shot himself inserted in Brass' version, which is also reflected in the film's indexing . Mirren's role also contained a nude scene, but it was not pornographic.

After playing the role of flight attendant Mary Sloan in the television production SOS Titanic , Mirren first played the Morgana in the film adaptation of Excalibur . You could get an idea of ​​her versatility in 1984 when she took on a role in the space epic 2010 - The Year We Make Contact . In the same year she could also be seen in Cal . For this portrayal, she received the award for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 .

In 1986 she played, among other things, the mother of River Phoenix in the movie Mosquito Coast by director Peter Weir . In 1989, Mirren caused a stir again with her starring in Peter Greenaway's film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover . Since 1991, Mirren has also played Commissioner Jane Tennison in the television series Hot Suspicion at regular intervals . In 1995 Mirren starred as Queen Charlotte in the comedy King George . For this role she received, among other things, another actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar nomination .

In the years to come, Mirren demonstrated her enormous range of acting in a wide variety of productions, for example as a malicious teacher in Kills Mrs. Tingle , as a doctor in The Promise , and Gosford Park , directed by Robert Altman . Mirren showed bare skin again in 2003 in the film Calendar Girls , a comedy about a circle of mature women who bare themselves for a benefit calendar. In 2005 Mirren played another historical figure with Elisabeth I in the two-part TV series Elisabeth I. She received various awards and nominations for her performance, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award in 2007.

Shortly thereafter, Mirren played a British monarch again in the film The Queen with Elizabeth II. For this performance, too, she received several awards and nominations, including the Oscar for best leading actress , the Coppa Volpi Acting Award at the Venice Film Festival and a Golden Globe Award . Mirren thus won the award for best leading actress in two categories at the Golden Globe Awards in 2007 with her portrayal of the Queen . In 2007 she was also nominated in the category “Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie” for her role as Elisabeth I and as the protagonist of the TV movie Prime Suspect: Final Act . From 2013 in London and from 2015 on New York's Broadway , she appeared again as Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's play The Audience , which had already provided the script for The Queen . She has received the most important British and American theater awards for her performance, including the Laurence Olivier Award , the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for best actress.

In addition to her acting work, Mirren is also repeatedly active as a voice actress . She could be heard as queen in The Prince of Egypt as well as Macheeba in the animal film Pride - The Law of the Savannah or as the computer "Deep Thought" in the original version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .

Mirren was also able to establish herself as a director . In 2001 she made her directorial debut in the television production Random - Nothing is as it seems , alongside Anne Heche and Mary Stuart Masterson for the episode Happy Birthday .

In Germany, Helen Mirren has been dubbed by various speakers over the course of her career, but since Inkheart (2008) mainly by Karin Buchholz .

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

Television productions

  • 1975: Caesar and Claretta
  • 1978: As You Like It (As You Like It)
  • 1979: SOS Titanic
  • 1983: Cymbeline
  • 1989: The Murderers Are Waiting (Red King, White Knight)
  • 1991: Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect)
  • 1992: Hot suspicion: Operation Nadine (Prime Suspect 2)
  • 1993: Hot suspicion: Aktion Soko (Prime Suspect 3)
  • 1995: Hot Suspect: The Scent of Death (Prime Suspect 4: The Scent of Darkness)
  • 1995: Hot Suspect: Child missing (Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child)
  • 1995: Hot suspicion: rope teams (Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circles)
  • 1996: Farewell to Chase (Loosing Chase)
  • 1996: Hot Suspect: Fatal Entanglement (Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment)
  • 1999: Ayn Rand - Life and Love for Literature (The Passion of Ayn Rand)
  • 2001: Random - Nothing is what it seems (On the Edge)
  • 2002: Door to Door
  • 2003: Hot Suspicion: The Last Witnesses (Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness) - also directed
  • 2003: Mrs. Stone and Her Roman Spring (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
  • 2005: Third Watch - Use at the limit ( Third Watch , Episode 6x15)
  • 2005: Elizabeth I
  • 2006: Prime Suspect: The Final Act
  • 2013: The Phil Spector Case (Phil Spector)
  • 2019: Catherine the Great (Miniseries)

Awards and nominations

Oscar

  • 1995 nominated for " Best Supporting Actress " in King George - A Kingdom for More Intelligence
  • 2002 nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" in Gosford Park
  • 2007 Awarded “ Best Actress ” in The Queen
  • 2010 nominated for "Best Actress" in A Russian Summer

BAFTA Awards

  • 1985 nominated as " Best Actress " in Cal
  • 1992 awarded as "Best TV Actress" in Hot Suspicion
  • 1993 awarded as "Best TV Actress" in Hot Suspicion: Operation Nadine
  • 1994 Awarded as “Best TV Actress” in Hot Suspicion: Aktion Soko
  • 1996 nominated for "Best Actress" in King George - A Kingdom for More Intelligence
  • 1996 nominated as “Best TV Actress” in Hot Suspicion: The Scent of Death / Missing Child / Clergy
  • 1997 nominated as "Best TV Actress" in Hot Suspicion: Deadly Entanglement
  • 2002 nominated for " Best Supporting Actress " in Gosford Park
  • 2004 honored with the Britannia Award
  • 2004 nominated as "Best TV Actress" in Hot Suspicion: The Last Witnesses
  • 2007 Awarded “Best Actress” in The Queen

Drama Desk Award

  • 1995 nominated for "Best Actress in a Play" in A Month in the Country
  • 2015 Awarded “Best Actress in a Play” in The Audience

Emmy

  • 1993 nominated as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special" in Hot Suspicion: Operation Nadine
  • 1994 nominated as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special" in Hot Suspicion: Aktion Soko
  • 1996 Awarded as “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special” in Hot Suspicion: The Scent of Death / Missing Child / Clergy
  • 1997 nominated as “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special” in Hot Suspicion: Deadly Entanglement
  • 1999 awarded as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" in The Passion of Ayn Rand
  • 2003 nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
  • 2003 nominated as "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" in From Door to Door
  • 2004 nominated as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Film" in Hot Suspicion: The Last Witness
  • 2006 honored as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" in Elizabeth I.
  • Awarded 2007 as “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Film” in Hot Suspicion: The Finale

European film award

Golden Globe Award

  • 1997 Awarded “ Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie ” in Farewell to Chase
  • 2000 nominated for "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in The Passion of Ayn Rand
  • 2002 nominated for " Best Supporting Actress " in Gosford Park
  • 2003 nominated for "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in From Door to Door
  • 2004 nominated for " Best Actress - Comedy or Musical " in Calendar Girls
  • 2004 nominated for "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone
  • 2007 Awarded “ Best Actress - Drama ” in The Queen
  • 2007 honored as "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in Elizabeth I.
  • 2007 nominated for "Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie" in Hot Suspicion: The Finale
  • 2010 nominated for "Best Actress - Drama" in A Russian Summer
  • 2013 nominated for "Best Actress - Drama" in Hitchcock
  • 2014 nominated for “Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie” in The Phil Spector Case
  • 2015 nominated for “Best Actress - Comedy or Musical” in Madame Mallory and the scent of curry
  • 2016 nominated as "Best Supporting Actress" in Trumbo
  • 2018 nominated as "Best Actress - Comedy or Musical" in The Shine of Memory

Golden Raspberry

  • 2019 nominated for " Worst Actress " in Winchester - The House of the Damned

Golden camera

  • Awarded for her life's work in 2016

Berlin International Film Festival

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 1984 awarded as " Best Actress " in Cal
  • 1995 awarded as "Best Actress" in King George - A Kingdom for More Mind

Venice International Film Festival

  • 2006 awarded the Coppa Volpi as “Best Actress” in The Queen

Laurence Olivier Award

  • 1983 nominated for "Best Actress in a Resumed Play" for Antony and Cleopatra
  • 2001 nominated as "Best Actress in a Play" in Orpheus
  • 2004 nominated for “Best Actress in a Play” in Mourning Becomes Electra
  • 2013 Awarded “Best Actress in a Play” in The Audience

London Critics' Circle Film Award

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award

  • 2006 Awarded “Best Actress” in The Queen

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2006 Awarded “Best Actress” in The Queen

Tony Award

  • 1995 nominated for "Best Actress in a Play" in A Month in the Country
  • 2002 nominated for "Best Actress in a Play" in Dance of Death
  • 2015 Awarded “Best Actress in a Play” in The Audience

Mirren was awarded the star with the number 2488 on the Walk of Fame on January 3, 2013 .

literature

  • Amy Rennert: Helen Mirren: Prime suspect: a celebration . KQED Books, San Francisco, 1995, ISBN 0-912333-69-3 (English)
  • Ivan Waterman: Helen Mirren: The Biography . Metro, London, 2003, ISBN 1-84358-053-5 (English)
  • CaroleZucker: Conversations with actors on film, television, and stage performance . Heinemann, Portsmouth (New Hampshire), 2002, ISBN 0-325-00372-6 (English)
  • Helen Mirren: In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007, ISBN 978-0-297-85197-4 (English)

Web links

Commons : Helen Mirren  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fred R. Shapiro: The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 523
  2. ↑ Annabel Wahba in an interview with Helen Mirren: "I should write a book about sex" . In: Zeit online , p. 2, January 7, 2010, accessed on January 4, 2011 (ZEITmagazin, No. 2/2010).
  3. ^ The New Yorker, October 2, 2006
  4. ^ Tania Mallet, Biography at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Berlinale honors Helen Mirren for her life's work. In: stern.de. December 4, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ A British woman poses: Helen Mirren has her "star" , accessed on January 4, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Mirren, Helen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mironova, Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna (maiden name); Миронова, Еле́на Ли́дия Васильевна; Mironowa, Jelena Lidija Wassiljewna (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH London