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
Feb
27
2016

On we go with video additions from awards ceremonies, covering her Cannes Film Festival wins in 1984 and 1995 as well as her numerous wins at the BAFTA Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. Everything in between has been added as well. As always, click any of the previews below to launch all last added videos.


Feb
27
2016

Today, over 80 talkshows appearances have been added to the video archive, ranging from 1994 to 2014 and featuring Helen on every known daytime and late night talkshow in the United States and the United Kingdom. Over the last 20 years, she has been a regular guest on the shows of Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Conan O’Brien, so this is a great trip down memory lane. To launch all last added videos, simply clik the previews below. Next I’ll cover the awards section of the archive.


Feb
07
2016

Yesterday, Helen Mirren took the stage in Hamburg, Germany, to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Goldene Kamera, Germany’s biggest honor for film, television, music and culture. This appearance was a bit of a surprise since I didn’t know she was announced as a recipient, so even better to see so many new pictures. Plus, the complete segment of her honor (introduced by German “Trumbo” co-star Christian Berkel, who played Otto Preminger) can be watched in the video archive. The speech, which has been dubbed in German but is still possible to be heard, featured some wonderful remarks on being an emigrant herself and thanking her German dubbing voice for giving half her performance.


Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2016 – 51st Annual Goldene Kamera – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2016 – 51st Annual Goldene Kamera – Show
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2016 – 51st Annual Goldene Kamera – Screencaptures
Video Archive – Award Shows – 51st Annual Goldene Kamera (2016)

Feb
04
2016

Lots of new videos have been added today. On February 2nd, Helen appeared in a press junket for “Eye in the Sky”, which was featured on The Insider and Entertainment Tonight. On February 3, interviews on Channel 4 (very interesting, be sure to watch it) and the British morning show Lorraine have been aired. There’s also a new documentary on the history of the Roundabout Theater. And by now, I’m sure you’ve already seen Helen’s very funny Super Bowl Commercial. Enjoy the new videos.


Video Archive – News Segments – Entertainment Tonight (February 03, 2016)
Video Archive – News Segments – Channel 4 (February 03, 2016)
Video Archive – TV Specials – Roundabout to Broadway (2016)
Video Archive – Career – Trumbo – Interview 03
Video Archive – Miscellaneous – Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial (February 2016)
Video Archive – News Segments – The Insider (February 02, 2016)
Video Archive – Talkshows – Lorraine (February 03, 2016)

Jan
11
2016

The photo gallery has been updated once again with pictures from the arrivals, show, after-party as well as screencaptures from the broadcast. Also, video clips of the Best Supporting Actress segment and Helen and Gerard Butler’s presentation of the Foreign Language film category have been uploaded to the video archive, alongside three clips of NBC’s arrivals specials from 2016 to 2013.

Video Archive – Award Shows – 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2016)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards Interview (2016)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards Interview (2015)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards Interview (2013)

Dec
09
2015

The theatrical trailer for “Eye in the Sky” has been released. The film stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from ‘capture’ to ‘kill’. But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.” The release date of Eye in the Sky is set to March 11, 2016.

Aug
13
2015

Here are two things Hollywood really likes: movies about charismatic individuals triumphing over political oppression, and movies about Hollywood. Luckily, Bryan Cranston’s new film, Trumbo, is about both: Cranston plays screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted by the industry in 1947 after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo was perhaps the most successful of the “Hollywood Ten”; he wrote under pseudonyms throughout the ’50s, and even won Oscars for his work on The Brave One and Roman Holiday. Cranston, deploying the full range of that booming, stentorian voice, looks pretty crackerjack in the role, and he’s accompanied by a murderer’s row of talent: Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, John Goodman, and Louis C.K. all have supporting parts. Trumbo is out in November.

Jul
29
2015

It seems that all f-bombs have been used on talkshows, so that even a p-bomb, if there’s such a thing, makes it for daily news. Yesterday, Helen has been a guest on Good Morning Britain for quite an entertaining interview. First, Mirren hit back at the hosts remarks on turning 70. “Why do you say that like that? ‘Oh my god, she’s 70! How can anybody be 70?” Because we can’t believe it, you don’t look 70,” co-host Ben Shephard cut-in. “Yes I do, I look 70 with a lot of makeup on and nice hair. I do totally look 70,” Helen responded. Things got worse when Helen recounted a story of camping with Liam Neeson in the 1980s. “We’re camping in this tiny tent, all six-foot-four of Liam and me and we camp in this field, and it pissed with rain non stop for like three days.” Her utterance of the word “pissed” immediately caused the presenters to panic as Shephard replied, “Oh. We should apologize. We can’t say things like that first thing in the morning…one of those moments when you put your foot in your mouth. Apologies.” While Helen initially apologized and quickly rephrased her words (“it rained a lot”), the Tony-award winner then asked, “Why can’t you say that? It’s not very rude.” “Can we have that debate another time, otherwise we’ll get fired. You might be the Queen but you can’t save us,” Garraway replied as Mirren vowed to “shut my mouth.” You can watch the full clip in the video archive. Stills from the taping and screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.

Jun
08
2015

Congratulations to Helen Mirren for winning the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for “The Audience”. This is the icing on the cake of an already astonishing season. Helen now joins the ranks of a selected group of actors to have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony. Now, to become an EGOT, only a Grammy is missing – so, fingers crossed for an “Audience” audiobook 🙂 Pictures from the arrivals, show and press room have been added to the photo gallery, with many thanks to Claudia for some great contributions. A segment of her acceptance speech has been added to the video archive.



Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Show
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Screencaptures
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Press Room

Jun
07
2015

The 69th Annual Tony Awards are taking place tonight. Helen Mirren is nominated as Best Actress in a Play for “The Audience”, and many outlets are predicting her to win. As Vulture writes, “Who will deny the Queen of England a Tony Award to go with her Oscar?” A Tony win would mean a triple crown for Mirren, joining the ranks of actors who have won an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy. In anticipation of tonight’s ceremony, clips of Helen’s previous Tony appearances – including nominations for 1995’s A Month in the Country and for 2001’s Dance of Death – have been added to the video archive. Look at the coincidence at the 2002 awards ceremony with the award being presented by Helen’s former partner, Liam Neeson and his wife, the late Natasha Richardson, who also happened to be Helen’s co-star in “The Comfort of Strangers”.

Video Archive – Award Shows – 64th Annual Tony Awards (2010)
Video Archive – Award Shows – 58th Annual Tony Awards (2004)
Video Archive – Award Shows – 56th Annual Tony Awards (2002)
Video Archive – Award Shows – 49th Annual Tony Awards (1995)