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.
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Feb
11
2025

No spoilers: Richard Osman has explained that The Thursday Murder Club movie adaptation will differ from his book, according to Digital Spy. Speaking with Marina Hyde on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, Osman weighed in on how much creative control authors retain when their projects are adapted for the screen. “It’s a trade-off, really,” he said on February 6. “I know with The Thursday Murder Club, we sold that before the first book had even come out so it didn’t have a reputation, particularly. “There were different parties who were interested, there were certain people who part of their deal would be, ‘You will have complete creative control over the whole process, you can write it’ which I didn’t want to do.” The rights to the book were ultimately acquired by Amblin, Steven Spielberg’s production company. “With Amblin and Spielberg, when they came in, they said, ‘It’s definitely going to be in England, we’ll give you that assurance, but someone else is going to write it’,” Osman said. The film, to be distributed by Netflix, is directed by Home Alone’s Chris Columbus, who co-wrote the script with Katy Brand (Good Luck To You, Leo Grande). Osman confirmed the movie adapts the first book in his novel series, though it won’t be “entirely the same”. “The plot, as I understand it, for The Thursday Murder Club movie is based on the first book but it’s not entirely the same, because you have to change things is the truth,” he said. “To have me looking over their shoulder every five seconds telling them that they couldn’t do this or they couldn’t do that I think would be hard.” The film sees the protagonist quartet played by Helen Mirren, Celia Imrie, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley, with supporting characters portrayed by David Tennant, Naomi Ackie, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Mays and Henry Lloyd-Hughes.

Jan
30
2025

Happy to read that “Switzerland” is still in pre-production. According to Deadline, Juliet Stevenson has boarded Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist Patricia Highsmith as shooting gets underway in Rome, sources close to the production have confirmed. She joins Mirren, Olivia Cooke, who was also confirmed this week, as well as previously attached Alden Ehrenreich. The movie has been adapted by Australian writer Joanna Murray-Smith from her play of the same name, revolving around Patricia Highsmith’s encounter with an ambitious young literary agent, played by Ehrenreich. It is 1995, as Highsmith lives out her final days in seclusion in the Swiss Alps with only her cats for company. When a pushy young man turns up at her residence, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write a final book in her best-selling Tom Ripley series, it becomes clear he is on a more sinister mission. After Rome, the production travels to northern Italy, Switzerland and London. Producers are Gabrielle Tana Troy Lum and Andrew Mason at Brouhaha Entertainment; Jim Robison and Kurt Martin for Australia’s Lunar Pictures; Karl Spoerri at Switzerland’s Zurich Avenue; Andrea Occhipinti for Italy’s Lucky Red; and Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell for L.A.-based LD Entertainment. Carolyn Marks Blackwood is also producing.

Jan
27
2025

It’s been a long two years since the premiere of 1923, but it’s going to be worth it. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal a closer look at what’s to come in the long-awaited second season in a new featurette, which kicks off with Helen Mirren, herself, acknowledging just how torturous the wait has been for fans. “It took a long time to get here, you know. It’s been 2 years,” Mirren, 79, says as she sits beside her onscreen husband, Harrison Ford, inside the Yellowstone ranch on set. Julia Schlaepfer, who plays Alexandra, is equally eager to be back in the swing of things, as she says it “feels so incredible to be back” on set – and teases a “very, very emotional” season to come. “Taylor [Sheridan] sent me the scripts and I was weeping.” Mirren (Cara Dutton) credits the show’s “extraordinary crew,” too, for the magic of the show, while Darren Mann (Jack Dutton) says, “I have never seen anything like it. Everything about it is just so authentic.” The featurette can be watched in the video archive. Screencaptures and a teaser poster for season 2 have been added to the photo gallery.

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Jan
20
2025

Paramount+ on Sunday released the official trailer for the second season of 1923. Season two of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel, starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, will premiere Feb. 23. The series also stars Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter. The logline for the second season of 1923: “A cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Schlaepfer) sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love.”

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Dec
16
2024

Paramount+ continues teasing the new season of “1923” with another teaser/trailer. In the upcoming second season, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Brandon Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. The series also stars Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter. 1923 season two is set to premiere on Sunday, February 23rd on Paramount+.

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Dec
05
2024

Paramount+ has premiered the first trailers for the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” spin-off series “1923” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. In the second season of 1923, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob and Cara back at Dutton Ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, and Aminah Nieves. Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton, and Jennifer Carpenter also star. “1923” returns on the Paramount+ streaming service on February 23rd 2025. The two teaser trailers can be found in the video archive.

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Dec
04
2024

All aboard! Season 2 of 1923 is finally here, and People has the exclusive first look! Fans of the Yellowstone prequel series will see season two follow Jacob and Cara Dutton back at Dutton ranch as a “a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business.” “With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana,” the official logline continues. “Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love.” 1923 stars Harrison Ford as Jacob, an ancestor of the character Kevin Costner played in the present-day series. With wife Cara (Helen Mirren) by his side, the series follows the Duttons as they navigate the hardships of the era, including Western Expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. In addition to Ford and Mirren, season two will see the return of Brandon Sklenar, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Aminah Nieves, Julia Schlaepfer, Brian Geraghty, Timothy Dalton, Sebastian Roché, Robert Patrick, Darren Mann and Isabel May. The complete article and all first-look pictures can be found over at People.

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Nov
27
2024

According to Variety, Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan have officially signed on to star in the Paramount+ series from Guy Ritchie and Ronan Bennett. It was previously reported that the trio were in final negotiations to join the show. The project had initially been developed with the title “The Donovans,” with plans to function as an across-the-pond spin-off of the Showtime series “Ray Donovan,” which was led by Liev Schreiber for seven seasons and a film adaptation. However, it has been reworked into a standalone series with no connections to that franchise. It was also previously reported that it was filming under the working title “The Associate,” but that is no longer the case. Production is now underway in London, with the untitled show slated to debut in 2025 on Paramount+ with Showtime. The official series description states that the show is “centered around two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch all corners of the globe and the fiercely loyal ‘fixer’ charged with protecting one of them at all costs.” Hardy will play Harry Da Souza, described as “a professional conciliator on behalf of the Harrigan family.” Brosnan will play Conrad Harrigan, “the head of a very successful Irish crime family based out of London for whom Harry works.” Mirren will play Maeve Harrigan, Conrad’s wife and the Harrigan family matriarch. “Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are masters at their craft and we are honored to have them lead the cast for Guy Richie’s new global, original series,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. “Guy, Jez Butterworth and Ronan Bennett’s creative prowess, coupled with these gifted actors, is the perfect recipe for what we believe will be the next brand defining series for Showtime on Paramount+”

Oct
10
2024

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan are in final negotiations to star in the Paramount+ series Guy Ritchie‘s The Associate (working title), Deadline has learned. Paramount+ declined to comment for this story. With the most powerful clients in Europe, Guy Ritchie’s The Associate will see family fortunes and reputations at risk, odd alliances unfold, and betrayal around every corner; and while the family might be London’s most elite fixers today, the nature of their business means there is no guarantee what’s in store tomorrow. The one-hour drama from Showtime/MTV Studios and 101 Studios follows two generations of gangsters, the businesses they run, the complex relationships they weave, and the man they call upon to fix their problems. Hardy is up for the role of Harry, the fixer, a man who is as dangerous as he is handsome. Mirren and Brosnan would star as the crime family’s matriarch and patriarch, respectively, we hear. Hardy is set to reunite with his RocknRolla director Ritchie in this new project. Guy Ritchie’s The Associate is Mirren’s follow-up to Taylor Sheridan’s 1923, which recently concluded shooting its second and final season; both shows hail from 101 Studios and MTV Studios. Mirren and Brosnan co-starred in Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club which wrapped shooting early last month. Ritchie, who will direct Guy Ritchie’s The Associate, executive produces with series writer Ronan Bennett, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin and Ivan Atkinson.

Sep
27
2024

A week ahead of its theatrical release in the United States, Helen Mirren has joined Lionsgate’s press tour for “White Bird”. Besides yesterday’s screening at the DGA Theater in New York (see update below), she and director Marc Forster were interviewed on a press junket. Clips from both events have been added to the video archive, alongside a making of featurette for the film.

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