Dame Helen Mirren (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only performer to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
She received an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience, three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, and four Primetime Emmy Awards including two for Prime Suspect.
Helen Mirren’s husband
Mirren began dating American director Taylor Hackford in 1986. They were married on 31 December 1997 at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. They met on the set of White Nights (1985). It is her first marriage and his third (he has two children from his previous marriages)
Helen Mirren’s children
She has no children, stating she has “no maternal instinct whatsoever”. Mirren’s autobiography, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in September 2007.
Mirren took on two step-children upon marrying.
Helen Mirren’s parents
Her father is Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, and her mother is Kathleen Alexandrina Eva
Helen Mirren’s siblings
Mirren’s siblings are Katherine Mirren and Peter Basil Mirren
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