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
Oct
06
2023

In our second update of public appearances pictures, we find more photo calls for “Prime Suspect” and various awards shows Helen has attended throughout the ’90s and ’00s, including the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. The most recent updates come from 2012’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as well as early 2023’s promotion of “1923” at the Deadline Contenders conversation panel. All updates are listed below. Enjoy.

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Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2023 – Deadline Contenders – 1923 Panel (Los Angeles)
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2012 – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Ceremony
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2006 – Taping of “Parkinson”
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2002 – 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2001 – “Gosford Park” Premiere (New York)
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2000 – Chelsea Flower Show
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2000 – 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1999 – 51st Annual Emmy Awards – Press Room
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1999 – 51st Annual Emmy Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1997 – “The Devils Adcovate” Premiere
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1997 – Helen Mirren visits St Bernard’s High School
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1997 – 49th Annual Directors Guild Awards
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1997 – 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Press Room
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1997 – 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1996 – 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards – Press Room
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1995 – 67th Annual Academy Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1995 – “Prime Suspect 4” Photocall

Oct
05
2023

On our fourth day, we update Helen’s public appearances with some fantastic additions from the past. This update includes pictures from various ’60s and ’70s events, promotions for “Extremities” and “2010: The Year We Make Contact” as well as pictures from an actors conversation panel at the 1990 Telluride Film Festival, which included Helen and Christopher Walken (presenting “The Comfort of Strangers”) as well as Liam Neeson and Sissy Spacek. A complete list of updates can be found below.

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Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1994 – 47th Annual BAFTA Awards – Press Room
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1994 – 47th Annual BAFTA Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1994 – British Police on Thames Photocall
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1993 – 24th Annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1992 – Broadcasting Press Guild TV & Radio Awards
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1990 – 17th Telluride Film Festival – Actor’s Conversation Panel
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1989 – Taping of “Aspel and Company”
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1985 – Unknown Event 01
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1985 – “White Nights” Press Conference (New York)
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1985 – Berlin Film Festival – “2010” Premiere
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1985 – Berlin Film Festival – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1984 – “Extremities” Photocall
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1983 – Society of West End Theatre Olivier Awards Reception
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1982 – Taping of With Showbiz
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1970 – Unknown Event 02
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1970 – Taping of The Brian Connell Interview
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1969 – National Theatre Owners Awards
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 1965 – Nicolas Egan Heampstad Studio

Oct
04
2023

The second batch of Helen’s career photography update features promotional stills from various “Prime Suspects”, some great behind-the-scenes pictures of her directorial debut “On the Edge” from 2001 and additional stills and on-set pictures from her classic performances, inlcuding “Calendar Girls”, “The Queen” and “Catherine the Great”. As always, a complete list of updates can be found below. Enjoy and check back tomorrow for more.

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Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Fast & Furious 9 – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Catherine the Great – On-Set Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Trumbo – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Brighton Rock – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Brighton Rock – On-Set Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Last Station – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Queen – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Queen – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Prime Suspect: The Last Act – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Calendar Girls – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – On the Edge – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Collected Stories – Posters & Key-Art
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Some Mothers’ Son – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – A Month in the Country – Rehearsals Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Prime Suspect: Inner Circles – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Prime Suspect: Inner Circles – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Comfort of Strangers – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover – On-Set Pictures

Oct
03
2023

On we go with our week-long celebration for The Helen Mirren Archives’ 10th anniversary with a massive career update consisting of production stills, on-set pictures, promotionals and theatre programmes from many of Helen’s projects throughout the years. In the first part of this update, we find theatre pictures from “Troilus and Cressida”, “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Madame Bovary”, some deleted scenes from “Caligula” and on-set pictures from “Hussy” and “The Mosquito Coast”. To view all updates, check out the list below.

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Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Madame Bovary – Posters & Key-Art
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Madame Bovary – Rehearsals Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Mosquito Coast – On-Set Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – 2010 – The Year We Make Contact – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Extremities – Posters & Key-Art
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Antony and Cleopatra – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Excalibur – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Duchess of Malfi – Posters & Key-Art
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Hussy – On-Set Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Long Good Friday – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Caligula – Deleted Scenes
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – As You Like It – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – As You Like It – Promotional Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – O Lucky Man! – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Age of Consent – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Much Ado About Nothing – Posters & Key-Art
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Troilus and Cressida – Production Stills
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – Troilus and Cressida – Backstage Pictures
Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Silver Tassie – Production Stills

Oct
02
2023

Our celebration week is officially open, starting with lots of additional magazine scans from as early as 1972 (with two cover stories promoting Ken Russell’s “Savage Messiah”) to 2019. These additions feature some great cover stories from the 1990s and 2000s that were new to me. For a complete list of articles, have a look at the list below. Enjoy, and check back tomorrow for more 🙂

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Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2019 – TV Star (Czech Republic, September 01, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2013 – American Cinematographer (United States, March 2013)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2008 – The Sunday Telegraph (United Kingdom, January 20, 2008)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2007 – Direct TV (Chile, May 2007)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2007 – Pronto Magazine (Spain, March 2007)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2007 – La Vanguardia (Chile, February 22, 2007)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2007 – London Lite (United Kingdom, January 16, 2007)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2006 – Entertainment Weekly (USA, December 2006)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2006 – Studio Magazine (France, October 2006)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1996 – The Evening Standard (United Kingdom, October 17, 1996)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1992 – TV Times (United Kingdom, December 12, 1992)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1987 – TV Times (United Kingdom, August 22, 1987)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1985 – Marquee (Canada, December 1985)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1975 – Cosmopolitan (United Kingdom, May 1975)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1972 – Films and Filming (United Kingdom, October 1972)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 1972 – Films Illustrated (United Kingdom, September 1972)

Oct
02
2023

We know by now that a. Helen Mirren likes to have a good time and b. knows she’s worth it. On Sunday, she showed off a wild crimped hairstyle on the runway during Paris Fashion Week when she hit the catwalk for the L’Oreal spring/summer 2024 show. She was accompanied by Elle Fanning, so you had both Catherine the Great’s combined. Pictures from the runway have been added to the photo gallery.

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Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2023 – Le DĂ©filĂ© L’OrĂ©al Paris – “Walk Your Worth” Runway

Sep
29
2023

Unbelievable but true, The Helen Mirren Archives celebrate their tenth year online next week. A decade ago, I started this site as a project to spotlight each of Helen Mirren’s films – to provide a detailed and well-researched source for fans interested in the makings of her work on film, televison and the theatre – and also as a task to myself to unearth the lesser known rarities that were hard to find. While having achieved this goal in a little more than a year, 10 years later the Archives have become the premiere source for all information on Helen’s continuously strong career. To celebrate this milestone, starting Monday, we will celebrate throughout the week with an update each day featuring fantastic additions to the site, including some great rarities you may have not seen before. A quick word of gratitude to everybody who has contacted me along the way with contributions, heads-up and positive comments: I thank you very much, it has been very appreciated and I’m looking forward to the next 10 years.

Sep
29
2023

Yesteday, Helen Mirren has attended the UK premiere of “Golda” ahead of its release in cinemas. Speaking of her role, she said: “Golda Meir was a formidable, intransigent and powerful leader. It is a great challenge to portray her at the most difficult moment of her extraordinary life. I only hope I do her justice.” “Golda” was written by Nicholas Martin, who previously penned a biopic of American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, and directed by Guy Nattiv who led Oscar-winning short film “Skin”. Nativ said: “I have long been an admirer of the great Helen Mirren. She has melted so brilliantly into Golda Meir’s character with incredible talent, intelligence, depth and emotion, doing justice to the richness and complexity of this incredible woman.” Pictures from the screening have been added to the photo gallery.

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Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2023 – “Golda” Screening (London)

Sep
29
2023

The legendary Michael Gambon has passed away at age 81. He has been Helen Mirren’s leading man in three iconclastic productions: 1983’s “Antony and Cleopatra” with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the unforgettable thief in Peter Greenaway’s masterpiece “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover” as well as Helen’s secret lover and eventual murder victim in the Oscar-winning “Gosford Park”. On the day of Mr. Gambon’s passing, Helen Mirren was promoting “Golda” in the United Kingdom, during which she remembered her colleague in an interview with the BBC.

I’m going to smile when I think about Michael, because he was incredibly funny. He had this natural Irish sense of humor. Naughty, but very, very funny. He was enormously self deprecating but at the same time and instinctive actor and a wonderful person to be around, just in general. He kept me constantly in laughter. We had some incredibly funny moments playing “Antony and Cleopatra” together. But, an extraordinary actor. An extraordinary contribution to the British landscape of theatre. An enormously important past within that landscape, and we will all miss him a lot (Helen Mirren, BBC, September 28, 2023).

Sep
22
2023

Here comes a great conversation with Helen Mirren and Vanity Fair to promote “Golda” on its way into the 2024 awards season: About a month before Golda was released in US theaters via Bleecker Street on August 25, SAG-AFTRA went on strike, preventing Mirren from doing press for the movie, even if she technically could have. (The film was produced under an Equity union contract in the UK, rendering it ineligible for a SAG interim agreement.) Because the studio is not in the AMPTP, and with more distance from the strike’s launch, Mirren has begun campaigning for the film with her guild’s blessing as it leads a second life on digital (it’s now available on-demand and on platforms like Apple TV+ and Prime Video) and as Oscar season heats up. “I was given a written email from SAG to say…I can talk about it,” she says. “It’s a low-budget film, we don’t have a big marketing budget—so yes, it’s great to be able to talk.” To become Golda, she saw no choice but to take the portrayal that extra step: “Anybody playing Golda would’ve had to have certainly obeyed the physiognomy of the woman because she was so recognizable, so iconic.” The complete article can be read over at Vanity Fair.