Helen Mirren on screen and stage

Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor known for her prolific career in film, television, and on stage taking roles both dramatic and comedic. She has received several honors including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
Mirren started her career on stage playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in a 1965 production with the National Youth Theatre at The Old Vic. She acted with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre acting in numerous productions of William Shakespeare's work including The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Hamlet, and Macbeth. She made her Broadway debut acting in the revival of the Ivan Turgenev play A Month in the Country. She portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the Peter Morgan play The Audience both on Broadway and on the West End, which earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress.
Mirren made her film debut in the British experimental film Herostratus. She took early roles in Caligula, The Long Good Friday, Excalibur, and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the drama The Queen. She was Oscar-nominated playing Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George, a housekeeper in Gosford Park, and Sofya Tolstoy in The Last Station. During this time she acted in numerous films across genres in films such as Calendar Girls, State of Play, The Tempest, The Debt, Woman in Gold, Eye in the Sky, Trumbo, The Leisure Seeker, and Golda.
On television, Mirren earned acclaim for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in the police procedural Prime Suspect, for which she earned three BAFTA Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She also earned Emmy Awards for her roles as Ayn Rand in the Showtime television film The Passion of Ayn Rand and Queen Elizabeth I in the HBO miniseries Elizabeth I She also acted in the TNT film Door to Door, the HBO movie Phil Spector, the HBO miniseries Catherine the Great, and the Paramount+ Western series 1923.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Press for Time	Penelope Squires	Uncredited
1967	Herostratus	Advert Woman
1968	'	Hermia
1969	Age of Consent	Cora Ryan
1970	Red Hot Shot	Unknown
1972	Savage Messiah	Gosh Boyle
1972	Miss Julie	Miss Julie
1973	O Lucky Man!	Patricia
1976	Hamlet	Ophelia/Gertrude
1979	Caligula	Caesonia
1979	S.O.S. Titanic	Stewardess May Sloan
1980	Hussy	Beaty
1980	'	Alice Rage
1980	'	Victoria
1981	Excalibur	Morgana
1984	Cal	Marcella
1984	2010	Tanya Kirbuk
1985	Heavenly Pursuits	Ruth Chancellor
1985	Coming Through	Frieda von Richthofen Weekley
1985	White Nights	Galina Ivanova
1986	'	Mother Fox
1988	Pascali's Island	Lydia Neuman
1989	When the Whales Came	Clemmie Jenkins
1989	'	Georgina Spica
1990	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	Frances Penny Bethune
1990	A Story is Not Final II: The Second Chapter	Xanyides
1990	'	Caroline
1991	Where Angels Fear to Tread	Lilia Herriton
1993	'	Annie Marsh
1993	Royal Deceit	Geruth
1994	'	Queen Charlotte
1994	Children of God	The Narrator
1995	'	Snow Queen
1996	Some Mother's Son	Kathleen Quigley	Also associate producer
1997	Critical Care	Stella
1998	Sidoglio Smithee	Herself
1998	'	Queen Tuya
1999	Teaching Mrs. Tingle	Mrs. Eve Tingle
2000	Greenfingers	Georgina Woodhouse
2001	'	Doctor
2001	No Such Thing	The Boss
2001	Happy Birthday	Distinguished Woman	Also director
2001	Last Orders	Amy
2001	Gosford Park	Mrs. Wilson
2003	Calendar Girls	Chris Harper
2004	'	Eileen Hayes
2004	Raising Helen	Dominique
2005	'	Deep Thought
2005	Shadowboxer	Rose
2006	'	Elizabeth II
2007	National Treasure: Book of Secrets	Emily Appleton
2008	Inkheart	Elinor Loredan
2009	State of Play	Cameron Lynne
2009	'	Sofya Tolstoy
2010	Love Ranch	Grace Bontempo
2010	'	Prospera
2010	Brighton Rock	Ida
2010	RED	Victoria Winslow
2010	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Nyra
2010	The Debt	Rachel Singer
2011	Arthur	Lillian Hobson
2012	The Door	Emerenc
2012	Hitchcock	Alma Reville
2013	Monsters University	Dean Hardscrabble
2013	RED 2	Victoria Winslow
2014	The Hundred-Foot Journey	Madame Mallory
2015	Woman in Gold	Maria Altmann
2015	Unity	Narrator
2015	Eye in the Sky	Colonel Katherine Powell
2015	Trumbo	Hedda Hopper
2016	Collateral Beauty	Brigitte
2017	Cries from Syria	Narrator
2017	The Fate of the Furious	Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw	Uncredited
2017	The Leisure Seeker	Ella Spencer
2018	Winchester	Sarah Winchester
2018	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Mother Ginger
2019	Berlin, I Love You	Margaret
2019	Anna	Olga
2019	Hobbs & Shaw	Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw
2019	The Good Liar	Betty McLeish
2019	#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories	Narrator
2020	The One and Only Ivan	Snickers
2020	The Duke	Dorothy Bunton
2021	F9	Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw
2023	Golda	Golda Meir
2023	Shazam! Fury of the Gods	Hespera
2023	Fast X	Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw
2023	Barbie	Narrator
2024	White Bird	Grandmère / old Sara Blum
2025	The Thursday Murder Club	Elizabeth Best
2025	Goodbye June	June Cheshire
		Patricia Highsmith	Post-production

Theatre

Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, National Youth Theatre, The Old Vic, London, 1965
Cathleen, Long Day's Journey into Night, Century Theatre, Manchester, 1965
Kitty, Charley's Aunt, Century Theatre, Manchester, 1967
Nerissa, The Merchant of Venice, Century Theatre, Manchester, 1967
Castiza, The Revenger's Tragedy, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1967
Diana, All's Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1967
Cressida, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1968
Hero, Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1968–1969
Win-the-Fight Littlewit, Bartholomew Fair, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1969
Lady Anne, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1970
Ophelia, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1970
Julia, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1970
Tatyana, Enemies, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971
Harriet, The Man of Mode, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971
Title role, Miss Julie, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971
Elayne, The Balcony, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971
Isabella, Measure for Measure, Riverside Studios, London, 1974
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1974, then Aldwych Theatre, 1975
Maggie, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1975, then Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1976
Nina, The Seagull, Lyric Theatre, London, 1975
Ella, The Bed Before Yesterday, Lyric Theatre, 1975
Queen Margaret, Henry VI, Parts I, II and III, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1977, then Aldwych Theatre, 1978
Title role, The Duchess of Malfi, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 1980, then The Roundhouse, London, 1981
Grace, Faith Healer, Royal Court Theatre, 1981
Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Pit Theatre, London, 1983
Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl, Barbican Theatre, London, 1983
Marjorie, Extremities, Duchess Theatre, London, 1984
Title role, Madame Bovary, Watford Palace Theatre, 1987
Angela, "Some Kind of Love Story" and dying woman, "Elegy for a Lady," in Two-Way Mirror, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1989
Rosetta Borsi, Sex Please, We're Italian, Young Vic Theatre, 1991
Natalya Petrovna, A Month in the Country, Albery Theatre, London, 1994, then Criterion Theatre, New York City, 1995
Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Royal National Theatre, London, 1998Collected Stories, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 1999
Lady Torrance, Orpheus Descending, Donmar Warehouse, London, 2000
Alice, The Dance of Death, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 2001
Christine Mannon, Mourning Becomes Electra, Royal National Theatre, 2003
Title role, Phèdre, Royal National Theatre, 2009
Elizabeth II, The Audience, Gielgud Theatre, London, 2013
Elizabeth II, The Audience, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City, 2015