Helen Mirren

...4. Dame Helen, who has had a glittering career on the big and small screens, joins last year's winner Julie Walters, and Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Diana Rigg and Katherine Hepburn as recipients of the prestigious gong. After...

In this article: Katherine Hepburn, Academy Award, Diana Rigg, Julie Walters, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Queen Elizabeth II

...in 2007 for The Queen. Like all theatrical Dames, she has also done her stints on Broadway, in a revival of Turgenev's A Month In The Country and in 2001 with Ian McKellen in August Strindberg's Dance of Death. "About every three or four...

In this article: Leo Tolstoy, The Last Station, Oscar, National Theatre, London, Jay Parini, Anthony Quinn, and Christopher Plummer

...festival promises period romance and regal intrigue. Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) follows the Oscar-courting likes of Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett onto the British throne as the longest-reigning monarch in U.K. history -...

In this article: Toronto International Film Festival, Oscar, Michael Moore, Brian Clough, George Clooney, Recession, The Men Who Stare at Goats, USA Today, Sapphire, and Larry Charles

...of the house servants at an English country estate. The regal note will also be appropriate for "Phaedra," which reunites Miss Mirren with the director of "King George," Nicholas Hytner. The London company made an earlier trip this summer to...

In this article: Mississippi, Caligula, Academy Award, London, Age of Consent, Joseph Fiennes, Julie Taymor, The Passion of Ayn Rand, and Excalibur

...rave reviews for her work in "The Madness of King George" and "Gosford Park." Born Ilyena Mironov, Mirren has been married to director Taylor Hackford since 1997. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your assertiveness could get out of hand in the...

In this article: Gemini, Compound interest, E mail, Aries, Aquarius, Virgo, Taurus, and Pisces

...an on-stage interview Oct. 7. Mirren was nominated for Oscars for her performances in "Gosford Park" and "The Madness of King George," and has starred in the long-running public television series "Prime Suspect." She stars in the upcoming...

In this article: Tim Robbins, California, Oscars, Mill Valley Film Festival, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen, Catch a Fire, and Prime Suspect

...category for ''Elizabeth I, and Prime Suspect: Final Act). She won both Golden Globes for The Queen and Elizabeth I and also won two SAG awards the same year for the same roles. Mirren is the third actor to win two Golden Globes in the same...

In this article: Golden Globe Award, Academy Award, Emmy Awards, London, The Queen, Prime Suspect, Cocaine, Elizabeth I, and Gosford Park