Welcome to The Helen Mirren Archives, your premiere web resource on the British actress. Best known for her performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, "Prime Suspect" and her Oscar-winning role in "The Queen", Helen Mirren is one of the world's most eminent actors today. This unofficial fansite provides you with all latest news, photos and videos on her past and present projects.  Enjoy your stay.
Celebrating
10 years
on the web
Jul
22
2016

I’ve been kept away from updating the site for a couple of weeks, so let’s get the photo gallery up to date with some additional pictures of Helen Mirren’s various appearances in Jerusalem last month. Also, pictures from the Art Recovery Hearing have been added as well. Thanks to Helen’s Girl for contributing some unseen images. To view all last added pictures, click any of the previews below.


Jun
28
2016

Make sure to grab your DVD or Blu-Ray copy of “Eye in the Sky”, as it has been released in the USA today. The film and Helen Mirren’s lead performance have received rave Reviews from the critics back when it theatrically released in February – but as almost always with war films, the box office numbers have been underwhelming, to say modest at least. Blu-Ray screencaptures from the film as well as its making of have been added to the photo pallery.


Jun
23
2016

This week, Helen Mirren is in Jerusalem to host the Genesis Prize, known as “the Jewish Nobel”. Her arrival and various sightings have been covered, as was the press conference for the prize, which will be given this year to Itzhak Perlman. During her stay, Helen has been honored with the Jerusalem of Gold Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. Barkat then took her to visit the City of David, an archaeological site of ancient Jerusalem, and said Mirren “has inspired millions through her artistic craftsmanship and devotion to bettering the world.” The actress also joined British Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, at his residence to celebrate Shakespeare. The pair helped launch ‘Mix the Play’, which is part of a global project to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. The brainchild of the British Council in Israel, the initiative allows people to direct a scene from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, before sharing it online. Pictures from all mentioned events have been added to the photo gallery. If you’re able to find additional press coverage, please let me know. Edit: Pictures from the Genesis prize ceremony have been added as well.



Photo Gallery – Appearances – 2016 – The Genesis Prize – Ceremony
Photo Gallery – Appearances – 2016 – The British Council’s Mix the Play Ceremony
Photo Gallery – Appearances – 2016 – Jerusalem of Gold Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
Photo Gallery – Appearances – 2016 – The Genesis Prize – Press Conference
Photo Gallery – Appearances – 2016 – The Genesis Prize – Sightings
Photo Gallery – Appearances – 2016 – The Genesis Prize – Arrivals Reception

Jun
14
2016

Helen Mirren stepped out in New York on Monday to attend the unveiling of Barbra Streisand’s own room at The Friars Club. The members only club was founded in 1904 and is famed for its risqué celebrity roasts. The club’s membership is composed mostly of comedians and other celebrities. Streisand and Mirren were seen with Larry King, Rosie Perez and Taylor Hackford. Pictures from the event have been added to the photo gallery.

Jun
12
2016

A little late since “Trumbo” has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the USA on February 16 already, but here are screencaptures of Helen’s performance as Hedda Hopper in Jay Roach’s biopic that garnered Bryan Cranston a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Mirren’s performance was nominated for a Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild Award earlier this year, only missing the Oscar nomiation 🙁 Besides the film, screencaptures from the featurette and making of have been added as well. Many thanks to Claudia.


Photo Gallery – Career – Trumbo – Blu-Ray Screencaptures
Photo Gallery – Career – Trumbo – Featurette Screencaptures
Photo Gallery – Career – Trumbo – Making Of Screencaptures

Jun
09
2016

Helen Mirren testified in Congress Tuesday in support of a bill to make restitution easier for American heirs of Holocaust era victims, The Art Newspaper reported. Mirren told two Senate judiciary subcommittees in a joint hearing on the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act that “the very act of Nazi expropriation was not only unjust but it was inhumane.” She added, “Greed, cruelty, self-interest and domination will always be with us, it’s an easy option. Justice is so much more difficult, so much more complex. But we all dream of justice. We are incapable of changing the past, but fortunately we have the ability to make change today.” A complete article with more quotes can be read over here. Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.


Jun
07
2016

Yesterday, Helen Mirern has attended the New York premiere for “Hershey Felder As Irving Berlin”. Pictures from the premiere have been added to the photo gallery.

Jun
05
2016

Helen Mirren graces today’s cover of Stella Magazine, a supplement to the Telegraph. In the grand tradition of great British stars, Dame Helen Mirren has always been a rule-breaker. She married late, never had children, broke Hollywood in her 50s and is, at 70, a bona-fide global icon, happy to reveal that her beauty secrets fly in the face of everything your mother ever told you. ‘I have absolutely no beauty regime,’ she says in that perfectly modulated, husky voice. ‘I sunbathe – I know I shouldn’t but I love sitting in the sun. I drink wine and occasionally I’ll drink to excess. I eat French fries. I’ve never managed to go to the gym for longer than two months. The complete interview can be read here.

Jun
02
2016

Yesterday, Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford were guests at MoMA’s annual Party in the Garden, a tradition on the New York party circuit. Not only does the evening signify that summer is on its way, but it also famously brings together many different segments of New York’s social worlds.Pictures from the event have been added to the photo gallery.


May
19
2016

Lots of new and additional pictures from yesterday’s premiere of “La Fille Inconnue” and today’s Cinema Against AIDS Gala by amfAR have been added to the photo gallery. Edit: A couple hundred additional pictures from the arrivals, premiere and amfAR gala have been posted. And, in case you have wondered if Helen tripped and fell while taking the steps at the premiere, Mirren told Us Weekly that she was actually preventing a potential catastrophe. “I was doing up someone’s shoelaces because the [man] was standing there with his laces undone,” she explained while at the 2016 amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala on May 19. “I didn’t want him to trip.”



Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2016 – 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival – Cinema Against AIDS Gala
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2016 – 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival – “La Fille Inconnue” Premiere
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2016 – 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival – Arrivals