
In theaters May 13, 2023
An extensive chronology that features information, quotes and pictures on every year of Dame Helen Mirren's career. | ![]() |
Learn more about every film, theatre play and television series that Helen has done, ranging from 1965 to 2022. | Mirren in her own words: Interviews from the past seven decades, collected from all around the world. | ![]() |
Browse the largest collections of Helen Mirren photography, including appearances, stills and HD screencaptures. | ![]() |
From attending awards and talkshows to interviews and making ofs, the video archive features hundreds of clips. |
Much Ado About Nothing
October 14, 1968
| The Royal Shakespeare Company
|
Production Notes
Alan Howard and Janet Suzman played Benedick and Beatrice, with a memorable Hero played by the young Helen Mirren. The colourful sixteenth-century costumes gave an extra edge to the dancing in Act 2, where the men appeared, disguised in commedia dell’arte masks and flourishing swords for the mock-military dance. The swords would, of course, be put to more serious use later in the play. At the end of the play, an isolated Don Pedro drew on his gauntlets with great deliberation as if to prepare for his return to the battlefield. As the Coventry Evening Telegraph noted in its review (October 15, 1968): “Bernard Lloyd gave a tender, smooth performance as the love-struck Claudio, and Helen Mirren, as Hero, was as coy and virginal as the part demanded.”