Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English actress. She is known for roles such as The Queen, Prime Suspect, Calendar Girls, Elizabeth I, The Last Station and RED.

Dame Helen Mirren in 2013

Quotes

• The part never calls for it. And I've never ever used that excuse. The box office calls for it.
  • Of nudity on stage, as quoted in The Guardian (31 December 1994)
• At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words "fuck off" much more frequently.
  • The Mail on Sunday (September 2015); reproduced in "Quote Unquote," The Stage (17 September 2015)

External links

• IMDB entry
• Helen Mirren at the Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television
• Helen Mirren Biography at Tiscali
• Helen Mirren interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, (3 December 1982)
• "Dame Helen Mirren: I'm an Essex Girl" by Kevin Maher, in The Times (12 February 2010)

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