Our next spotlight features one of Helen’s finest performances – Showtime’s 2003 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”, for which Helen received Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy nominations (and would have deserved to win as well). To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and some fantastic on-set pictures have been added to the gallery. Trailers as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

Today’s spotlight is Peter Weir’s “The Mosquito Coast” from 1986, which – despite a starring role by Harrison Ford and the first notable American role for Helen Mirren – became a critical and financial disappointment. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and some fantastic on-set pictures have been added to the gallery. Trailers as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

Today’s spotlight features a magnificent early performance in the 1974 “Thriller” episode “A Coffin for the Bride”. It’s impossible to review this one without spoiling the story (just look at the pictures), so I won’t even try. Helen wonderfully plays a double role as a young artist and an obnoxious loud old broad. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills and screencaptures have been added to the gallery. And four clips have been added to the video archive.

Today’s spotlight is Peter Sellers’s dissapointing last film, “The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manhcu”. This 1980 comedy’s only grace is Helen Mirren as his girlfried, a loony Constable posing as the Queen. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and posters have been added to the gallery. A television trailer as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

We’re staying with Helen’s work for the BBC, but are going some fourty years back! In 1974, Helen first participated with the BBC Play of the Month installment, playing Beatrice-Joanna in the Jacobean drama “The Changeling” opposite Brian Cox. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and posters have been added to the gallery. The theatrical trailer as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

After our latest venture into Shakespeare territory, our next movie spotlight couldn’t be more different. In 1993, Helen did a suspenseful thriller for BBC Films, “The Hawk”, in which she plays an unstable housewife who suspects her husband to be a serial killer. To learn more about the project, visit the career page. Stills, screencaps and posters have been added to the gallery. The theatrical trailer as as well as three clips have been added to the video archive.

Covering Helen’s third and final collaboration with the BBC Shakespeare Company, today we spotlight “Cymbeline” (1982), in which Helen played Imogene. To learn more about the project, have a look at the career page. Stills, a promotional poster and screencaptures have been added to the gallery, and three clips have been added to the video archive.

We continue with the BBC Shakespeare Collection and Helen’s second appearance in the series – as Titania in 1981’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. To learn more about the project, have a look at the career page. Stills, promos and screencaptures have been added to the gallery, and three clips have been added to the video archive. Her third – and final – collaboration with the BBC Shakespeare series will be covered next.

This week we spotlight the 1978 television adaptation of “As You Like It”, one of three Shakespeare adaptations that Helen did for the BBC. To learn more about the project (and the difficulties of mounting the BBC Shakespeare series), have a look at the career page. Stills, promos and screencaptures have been added to the gallery, and three clips have been added to the video archive.

After covering the rather less successful projects in the past week, let’s bring back a really good one. Today’s spotlight features one of Helen’s best performances of her recent career – John Madden’s “The Debt”. To learn more about the film, check the career page. Stills, promotionals and Blu-Ray screencaptures have been added to the gallery. And there are lots of promotional interviews, featurettes and clips from the film added to the video archive.