Here’s our final anniversary update, and this one comes with a back story. 10 years ago, when I was working on launching the site, my good online friend Anke was cleaning up her archives and sent me a couple of tapes featuring old Helen Mirren appearances from the time she promoted “The Queen”. A decade later, when I was preparing the site’s 10th anniversary, I stumbled upon those tapes and realised I never digitalized them. So today, with many thanks to Anke, we can watch Helen’s appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, This Morning, Film 2006 with Jonathan Ross and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross for the first time in their entirety. Screencaptures from all shows have been added as well, and you can also find screencaptures from the 2001 television pilot Georgetown, in which Helen starred, but which was never picked up as a series. Enjoy all the updates.

We’re on our sixth day of the Archives’ week-long anniversary celebration, so only one more day until tomorrow’s finale 🙂 Today, lots of additional editorial photography has been added, ranging from 1969 to 2020, so there’s plenty of Helen Mirren through the years. For a complete overview, have a look at the list below. Enjoy and check back for tomorrow’s finale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 🙂

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.

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks behind the scenes working on the career pages – an extensive part of the site and my favorite to maintain. The goal is to give the best possible insight into Helen Mirren’s career, from her early days at the Royal Shakespeare Company to Prime Suspect to her recent film careers. So, all pages have been updated with useful tags, which allow you to browse projects by year, genre, venue or author. New pages have been created, for example her work in radio plays as well as television specials and documentaries. All pages have been intertwined with the archive pages, so you now have a comprehensive chronology of every year of Helen Mirren’s career. For a complete overview, have a look at the complete works. Enjoy.

Back in 2013, when I opened this website, the initial idea was to delve deep into Helen Mirren’s career and provide a comprehensive source to learn more about her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company, her odd film projects in the 1970s and 1980s and the iconic “Prime Suspect” – basically everything worth to know about Helen Mirren before she became “The Queen”. Hence the title of this website, The Helen Mirren Archives has lacked the proper archive I have envisioned for so long. Until today. You can now read information and find media on each year of Helen’s career, starting back in 1963 when she joined the National Youth Theatre. There’s a lot to discover, as each page is filled with pictures, quotes, shortcuts to multimedia and bits on the real-life characters she has portrayed. I hope that much more information will be added to the sites in the future to make it the definite Helen Mirren Archives. Enjoy!