Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945), is an English actor. She began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and has won the Triple Crown of Acting, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. In 2015, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Audience, also portraying Elizabeth II. Mirren won her first Emmy Award in 1996 for playing detective Jane Tennison in the ITV series Prime Suspect, which aired from 1991 to 2006.
Her notable film roles include Marcella in Cal (1984), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, as well as appearances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), Calendar Girls (2003), The Last Station (2009), Hitchcock (2012), and The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014). She also starred in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2. In 2003, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Mirren received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013 and the BAFTA Academy Fellowship in 2014.
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