Helen Mirren Fashion Blog
Celebrity fashion blog posts and style coverage from Apparel Search — Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born July 1945), is an English actor who began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and is one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for her performance as Elizabeth II in The Queen, and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2015 for The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II. She won her first of several Emmy Awards in 1993 as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of her style.
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (born July 1945), is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Elizabeth II in The Queen. In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, after two previous nominations, for her performance in The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen. Mirren won her first of several Emmy Awards in 1993 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed ITV series Prime Suspect, which ran for a total of seven seasons from 1991 to 2006.
Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film Cal, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Calendar Girls (2003), The Last Station (2009), Hitchcock (2012), and The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014). She also starred as Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy series Red and Red 2.
In 2003, she received a Damehood in the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts. In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014, BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship. These are only a small portion of her accomplishments.
Let's take a moment to learn more about the fashion, jewelry, or beauty products that Helen Mirren has enjoyed.
View more fashion blog
celebrities.
The Triple Crown, and Two Portrayals of One Queen
Helen Mirren's biography opens with a distinction few pages in this guide can match: she is one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and the page documents all three crowns. The Academy Award for Best Actress came in 2007, after two previous nominations, for Elizabeth II in The Queen. The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play came in 2015, after two previous nominations, for The Audience — in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II, in a play by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen. The Emmy line begins earlier: her first of several Emmy Awards in 1993, as police detective Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, which ran seven seasons from 1991 to 2006. A career that begins with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and is still collecting first-rank honors nearly fifty years later gives fashion coverage an unusually long runway: the public wardrobe of a performer photographed at premieres and awards ceremonies across five decades.
The filmography the page selects reinforces the range — Marcella in Cal in 1984, which won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, then The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Madness of King George, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, The Last Station, Hitchcock and The Hundred-Foot Journey, plus Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2. The honors beyond the crowns are dated with the same care: a Damehood in 2003 for Services to the Performing Arts, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, and the BAFTA Academy Fellowship announced in 2014. For style readers, those ceremonies are the appearances — the gowns at the Oscars, the Tonys and the Emmys are the recurring public record that the blog search on this page gathers into one list.
Resources on This Page
The resources are the blog search for her name, her own website, and the Wikipedia and IMDb reference links — no social accounts are listed, fitting the most senior biography in this batch. In the H index she files between Heidi Klum and Hilary Duff, a juxtaposition the alphabet creates often in this guide: a dame of the British stage between a German-American model-host and a former Disney star. Readers interested in awards-season dressing over a long career will find her page the H group's deepest archive, anchored by two portrayals of the same queen on screen and stage.
Common Questions
What is Helen Mirren's Triple Crown of Acting?
She is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting: the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for The Queen, the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2015 for The Audience, and Emmy Awards beginning in 1993 for Prime Suspect.
Which role connects The Queen and The Audience?
She portrayed Elizabeth II in both: in the film The Queen, which won her the Academy Award, and in the stage play The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen, which won her the Tony Award.
What honors has Helen Mirren received beyond acting awards?
In 2003 she received a Damehood in the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts. In 2013 she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014 BAFTA announced she would receive the Academy Fellowship.