Helen Mirren - Born 1945
British Actress
Added to the album by Howie, a wonderful man
I remember my parents being fans of Prime Suspect, a British television series starring Helen Mirren as police dectective Jane Tennison. I don't think I ever watched the show. I was probably too young to understand the relevance of Helen playing this role on prime-time TV, a woman in her forties (at a guess), playing a strong female lead and the series being both popular and critically acclaimed.
Before Prime Suspect, Helen had worked in theatre for almost thirty years. She had worked with some of the leading theatre companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and had appeared on Broadway. Her creditials as a stage actress are enormous and include playing some of theatre's most challenging and famous roles, including Cleopatra in Anthony and Cleopatra, Ophelia in Hamlet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.
Though she had appeared in television and film before, Prime Suspect really changed Helen's career. After it, she landed starring roles in movies such as Gosford Park, Calendar Girls and State of Play. In 2006, Helen appeared in the biopic film The Queen (about Elizabeth II), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. No stranger to receiving accolades for her talent, Helen has
won many other prestigious awards including four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards. Her sex appeal has no expiry date.
Gina Piccalo, The Daily Telegraph
Though well into her sixties, Helen is still considered a symbol of female sexuality, power and desire.
Another wonderful talent and a wonderful representation of a woman who past middle-age is still taking on career challenges, still achieving huge success, is still attractive, still sensual and still embodies female power and independence.
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
Helen Mirren
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