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• Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren performed on the stage through high school and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-1960s. She acted in mostly Shakespearean productions through the '60s and appeared in the films O Lucky Man! and Caligula in the 1970s.

  Her most notable roles are as Marcella in 1984's Cal, for which she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, as Georgina in The Cook,The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen for which she won an Oscar. She has been nominated on two other occasions for Oscars, one for The Madness of King George and the other for Robert Altman's Gosford Park.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth name: Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov
  2. Birth date: July 26, 1945
  3. Birth place: Ilford, Essex, England
  4. Notable Films: The Queen and The Madness of King George
  5. 2007: Won a Best Actress Oscar for The Queen

• The Queen and the Dame

  Mirren was invested as a Dame of the British Empire in 2003, several years after declining a Commander of the British Empire honor. Mirren married director Taylor Hackford in 1997. At age 52, it was her first marriage. Mirren has no children.

  Mirren was born to a Russian family, and her grandfather was a Russian nobleman who negotiated weapons trade with the British. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, changed the family name to "Mirren" in the 1950s.

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