Welcome to the Helen Mirren Archives. 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 news, photos & video clips on Helen's past and present projects
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Celebrating
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This Sunday we spotlight the third series of “Prime Suspect”, which won Helen Mirren a third consecutive BAFTA Award and a second consecutive Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Miniseries. To learn more about the third series, visit the career page. Stills, promotionals and screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery. Eight clips have been added to the video archive.
Helen Mirren received the royal treatment at this Sunday’s opening night of “The Audience” on Broadway. A compilation of the (very positive) press reviews will follow. For now, pictures from the curtain call and the opening night have been added to the photo gallery.
Let’s continue with “Prime Suspect 2”, which followed the first series a year later in 1992 and won Helen another BAFTA Award as well as her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. To learn more about the second series, visit the career page. Stills, promotionals and screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery. Eight clips have been added to the video archive.
A batch of wonderful production stills from the Broadway run of “The Audience” have been added to the photo gallery. Opening Night is this Sunday, March 8, 2015; the limited engagement runs through June 28, 2015 at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street, New York, NY). BroadwayWorld has new shots of the company onstage below! In addition to Helen Mirren, the cast for The Audience includes Dylan Baker, Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Elwyn, Judith Ivey, Dakin Matthews, Richard McCabe, Rod McLachlan, Rufus Wright and Anthony Cochrane.
Roundabout Theatre Company honored Dame Helen Mirren at its 2015 spring gala, held March 2 in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. Mirren, currently starring on Broadway in The Audience, was presented with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre following a tribute from Broadway vets including Jennifer Garner, Alessandro Nivola, Laura Benanti, Alan Cumming, Laura Osnes, Betsy Wolfe, and more. Mirren made her Broadway debut in 1995 at Roundabout Theatre Company in a Tony-nominated performance in A Month in the Country. The Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre is named after the late Jason Robards for his longstanding relationship with Roundabout and for his memorable body of stage work. It is given to those who have made an indelible impact on both Roundabout and the theater world.
Save the best for last, this March we spotlight the “Prime Suspect” series, one of the greatest achievements in Helen’s career. From 1991 to 2006, she portrayed Det. Supt. Jane Tennison in seven programmes that were as gritty, suspenseful and controversial as a television crime show can get. It gave Helen the role of a lifetime that became an iconic part of British television. Today we start with the first Prime Suspect, which I consider still the very best. To learn more about the show, visit the career page. Stills, promotionals and screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery. Eight clips have been added to the video archive.
Over 100 additional production stills of Helen’s feature films and television projects, ranging from 1971 to 1989, have been added to the photo gallery. Updates include “Cousin Bette”, “The Quiz Kid”, “The Long Good Friday”, “Coming Through” and “Red King White Knight”. To view all latest added images, click the previews below for a complete overview.
Photo Gallery – Feature Films – Last Updated Albums
Photo Gallery – Television Films & Series – Last Updated Albums
Yesterday, Helen has been a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote the Broadway opening of “The Audience”. Watch the clip in the video archive, screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.
On Sunday, CBS’ Sunday Morning ran a profile on Helen Mirren and the Broadway opening of “The Audience”. The programme featured a couple of scenes from the West End run of the play and included an interview with Helen, on the play, Shakespeare, and – inevitably – the old Parkinson interview. The full segment can be watched in the video archive, screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.
It’s Oscar Sunday and finally time to spotlight “The Queen” – Stephen Frears’ masterful film that got Helen Mirren her certificate of being Hollywood royalty – the 2007 Academy Award as Best Actress. To learn more about the film, visit the career page. Stills, promotionals, on-set pictures and Blu-Ray screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery. The theatrical trailer, a featurette, promotional interviews, as well as three clips from the film have been added to the video archive. And since this week-long Oscar spotlight comes to an end today, clips of Helen’s four Oscar appearances as a nominee (and winner) have been added to the video archive as well.