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  Helen Mirren | Technorati Blog
Dame Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter and Will Young will be among the stars encouraging people to buy presents with a positive impact on other people's lives this Christmas.
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  Helen Mirren's Prime Suspect reviewed. - By Troy Patterson - Slate Magazine
This is Mirren's seventh and last go-round as Jane Tennison of the London Metropolitan Police, a cop who has now risen to the rank of detective superintendent and is plummeting to the bottom in pretty much every other respect.
I could spend all day watching her put on a hat: In one of Mirren's many striking scenes, Tennison is at her father's house, drinking alone, and she opens a box containing the hat she wore as a 17-year-old bobby.
Mirren's on some amazing wavelength here, working at the height of her art.
www.slate.com /id/2153372   (851 words)

  
 Mirren, Helen
Helen Mirren is probably best known to American television audiences as Inspector Jane Tennison, the complicated and obsessive homicide and vice detective of Prime Suspect.
Mirren has claimed that she likes Tennison because she is "unlikeable." The complexity of Mirren's performance resides in how she conveys this unlikeability while still making us sympathetic to Tennison's ideals and vulnerability.
The tension LaPlante admires in Mirren's face also permeates the stiff posture Mirren adopts for the character, the quick pace of her walk, the intense drags she takes on a cigarette, the determination of her gum-chewing.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/M/htmlM/mirrenhelen/mirrenhelen.htm   (583 words)

  
  Helen Mirren Bio - Helen Mirren Biography - Helen Mirren Stories
Helen Mirren dedicated her BAFTA win for The Queen to Ian Richardson for playing a huge part in her success story.
On January 24th, 2007, bookmakers revealed Helen Mirren was the shortest favourite in the history of the Oscars to win the Best Actress award for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in the film, The Queen.
Helen was invested as a Dame Commander of the British Empire on 5 December 2003, even though in 1996 she had declined a CBE.
www.tv.com /helen-mirren/person/71953/biography.html   (1022 words)

  
  Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren made her film debut in Herostratus in 1967 which was followed in 1969 with roles in Sir Peter Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Michael Powell's Age of Consent.
Helen Mirren is best known for her television role as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in the occasional TV police drama Prime Suspect, which won BAFTA television awards in 1991 and 1993 for best drama serial.
In a curious coincidence, Helen Mirren won the best actress in a mini-series or film made for TV at the 2007 Golden Globe for her role as Elizabeth I and for best actress for her role as Elizabeth II in The Queen, for which she also got nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA.
www.biogs.com /famous/mirren.html   (507 words)

  
 Interview - Helen Mirren for "The Clearing"
It was Mirren and her director, first-timer Pieter Jan Brugge, who helped flesh out the character and give her the kind of dimension audiences see with such minimalist precision.
Mirren says that there was much about the iconic movie star that surprised her, such as "how simple and how straightforward he is, and how humble as an actor, which he has no reason to be.
Mirren says it is important for her to return to the theatre as often as possible as well, "Only because I don't want to lose my ability to do it and don't want to get afraid of doing it, because I am afraid of doing it," Mirren confesses.
www.darkhorizons.com /news04/mirren.php   (1278 words)

  
 Helen Mirren - HBO Films: Elizabeth I
Helen Mirren has won two Emmy®; Awards (for "The Passion of Ayn Rand" and "Prime Suspect 4: Scent of Darkness"); a Golden Globe® Award for "Losing Chase"; and three BAFTA Awards for her starring role in the series "Prime Suspect.
Helen Mirren: Yes, that was very much the Elizabeth I wanted to portray, and it was one that I felt- reading all the contemporary accounts of her and doing all the research I did on her-that was very much her personality.
Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I. The two movies were researched thoroughly in terms of historical detail and period accuracy.
www.hbo.com /films/elizabeth/interviews   (1928 words)

  
 Helen Mirren, Biography, Filmography, Photos – MSN Movies UK   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the mid-1970s, Mirren enjoyed a breakthrough with her acclaimed performance as Nina in a West End revival of Chekhov's "The Seagull." That role allowed her to combine her intelligence with her sensuality, something which has come to be her hallmark.
During the run of "Prime Suspect," Mirren found herself in demand and she was cast as the loyal queen to the increasingly irascible monarch (Nigel Hawthorne) in the film "The Madness of King George" (1994).
Mirren has continued to divide her time between the stage and screen, making her Broadway debut in "A Month in the Country" in 1995 and returned to the London theater in "Collected Stories" (1999) and "Orpheus Descending" (2000).
movies.uk.msn.com /actor.aspx?P_PersonID=71182   (1271 words)

  
 Helen Mirren - AskTheBrain.com
Actress Helen Mirren has been helping to raise the profile of arms issues after a visit with Oxfam to South Africa, a country where 31 people are killed by guns every day.
Helen Mirren visited South Africa with Oxfam to highlight the impact of small arms on a country where 31 people are killed by guns every day.
And actress Helen Mirren will never forget her trip to South Africa for Oxfam, where she met Lydia, a fourteen year old girl who saw her mother being shot dead, and says: "it was harrowing.
www.askthebrain.com /helen_mirren-.html   (363 words)

  
 Helen Mirren may be a bit bawdy for a queen. But her acting skills are majestic.
Helen Mirren may be a bit bawdy for a queen.
Helen Mirren, best known for playing detective Jane Tennison on the "Prime Suspect" television series, is at 61 having the biggest success of her long career with "The Queen," a shrewd look at one of the least understood women in the world.
Speaking in a low purr, Mirren admits that she was "anti-monarchist" in her youth, the product of a left-wing Russian father and a working-class English mother, but she says she's mellowed on the subject and quite admires the queen today.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/12/DDGKQLMLMO1.DTL   (1332 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Mirren blooms without baring all   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In fact, the nudity is secondary to the story, which has Mirren's casual country lass daring her somewhat priggish girlfriends to strip down.
Mirren briefly interrupts an interview to confer with her husband via cell phone about her plans for the rest of the day.
Mirren, long an outspoken critic of wedlock, got married in Scotland six years ago for "the least romantic reasons, the legal ones." And she's still the blushing bride.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-12-16-helen-mirren_x.htm   (531 words)

  
 Helen Mirren Information
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born Ilyena Lydia Mironova on 26 July 1945) is an English stage, television and movie actress.
She is particularly well-known for her roles as the female detective Jane Tennison in the Prime Suspect series of television dramas, and as the stern Soviet spaceship commander in the 1984 science fiction film 2010: Odyssey Two, based on the novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Mirren was born in England to a Russian-noble father and an English mother; her paternal grandfather, a Russian diplomat, was negotiating an arms deal in England and was stranded there, along with his family, after the Russian Revolution.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Helen_Mirren   (407 words)

  
 Exclusive Helen Mirren/The Clearing Interview
It was Mirren and her director, first-timer Pieter Jan Brugge, who helped flesh out the character and give her the kind of dimension audiences see with such minimalist precision.
Mirren says that there was much about the iconic movie star that surprised her, such as "how simple and how straightforward he is, and how humble as an actor, which he has no reason to be.
Mirren says it is important for her to return to the theatre as often as possible as well, "Only because I don't want to lose my ability to do it and don't want to get afraid of doing it, because I am afraid of doing it," Mirren confesses.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/HMirren/HMirren.html   (1271 words)

  
 Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren was born Ilynea Lydia Mironoff on 26th July 1945 in Chiswick, London, England.
In October 1998 Helen returned to the stage for the first time since 1994 to play Cleopatra, a role she first played at the Old Vic when she was just twenty and repeated for the RSC in 1983.
Helen Mirren is magnificent as Det Supt Jane Tennison, one of our greatest television detectives, who is such a joy to watch because she's flawed, fallible and completely human.
www.tmaw.co.uk /helenm.html   (2039 words)

  
 Helen Mirren's jealousy claims - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dame Helen Mirren is worried other actresses will be jealous of her recent award wins.
Mirren told Britain's Hello magazine: "I am sure there are some actresses out there who are saying, 'Get that woman out of my face, I wish she would just go away.' This year, anyway."
Although she is waiting for a backlash, Mirren claims most of her peers have congratulated her on her success.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2007/03/04/helen_mirrens_jealousy_claims   (172 words)

  
 CineVegas : Yearbook : 2006 : Helen Mirren   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mirren continues to take risks, whether it's as an assassin in Shadowboxer or as two queens of the same name but of different eras and driven to different goals.
Mirren has immortalized some of the sexiest roles in screen history precisely because she has brought to them a gravitas that goes far deeper than simple titillation.
Perhaps the most telltale sign that Mirren doesn't play by the rules is her profound success as she approaches her fifth decade of acting.
www.cinevegas.com /yearbook/2006/mirren.html   (543 words)

  
 Helen Mirren   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born and raised in London, England, Mirren is a descendant of a Russian noble family -- her father was a Russian aristocrat who was stranded in London after the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Knowing she wanted to become an actress as early as age six, Mirren tried to please her parents with a stint at a teacher's college, but ultimately joined the National Youth Theatre, starting her acting career on stage.
Mirren was made a D.B.E. (Dame of the British Empire) in June 2003.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2445   (418 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Interview: Oscar Nominee Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren wins dual awards for her work in Elizabeth I as well as The Queen at the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 28 in Los Angeles.
For Golden Globe-winning actress Helen Mirren, playing Her Majesty Elizabeth II in The Queen wasn't such a stretch since she had already given a masterful rendition of another monarch with her uncanny portrayal of Elizabeth I in the 2005 British mini-series.
The 61-year old Mirren's experience in preparing for the royal role was enhanced by her wide-ranging acting history—including five queens and a television sleuth.
en.epochtimes.com /news/7-2-14/51602.html   (1553 words)

  
 Helen Mirren Pictures, Helen Mirren Photo Gallery and Biography - Celebrity Pictures by WireImage.com
Dame Helen Mirren is a thespian of a royal order, having recently become one of the only actresses to portray both Queen Elizabeth I and II on screen.
Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov in Ilford, East London on July 26, 1945, the child of a Russian father and English mother.
Mirren is the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner with her moving, subtle performance in Stephen Frears’s surprisingly funny “The Queen”, and will appear alongside Brendan Fraser and Paul Bettany in 2007’s “Inkheart”.
www.wireimage.com /celebrities/helen-mirren   (959 words)

  
 Helen Mirren
In the mid-1970s, Mirren enjoyed a breakthrough with her acclaimed performance as Nina in a West End revival of Chekhov's "The Seagull." That role allowed her to combine her intelligence with her sensuality, something which has come to be her hallmark.
During the run of "Prime Suspect," Mirren found herself in demand and she was cast as the loyal queen to the increasingly irascible monarch (Nigel Hawthorne) in the film "The Madness of King George" (1994).
Mirren has continued to divide her time between the stage and screen, making her Broadway debut in "A Month in the Country" in 1995 and returned to the London theater in "Collected Stories" (1999) and "Orpheus Descending" (2000).
www.allocine.co.uk /personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=696.html   (1392 words)

  
 Helen Mirren biography
Helen herself was born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff on the 27th of July, 1946.
And there was Cal, where Mirren shone (and shocked) as a widow in Ireland, who has an affair with a young boy - a boy, as it happens, involved in the killing of her husband.
Helen played Macy's devoted mother (amazing as she was in actuality 56 and he 52), a font of inspiration and latterly battling Alzheimer's.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/helen_mirren_biog.html   (4907 words)

  
 Oscarwatch: Helen Mirren Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Helen Mirren returns in the starring role that defined a new breed of hard-bitten female police officer, fighting sex discrimination in Scotland Yard on top of killers, rapists, and psychopaths.
Helen Mirren was profiled by David Edelstein on Sunday Morning - it seems journos are finally ready to give The Dame her (long over)due.
It is the morning after the Emmy Awards, and Mirren, 61, is still giddy from last night's victory for her portrayal as the volatile Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, in an HBO mini-series.
www.oscarwatch.com /best_actress/helen_mirren   (1063 words)

  
 Helen Mirren Biography from Who2.com
Helen Mirren is a sophisticated star of stage and screen who became an international TV star as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the British series Prime Suspect.
Mirren's career got hotter as she matured, and in the '80s she turned in memorable performances in The Long Good Friday (1980), Excalibur (1981), The Mosquito Coast (1986, with Harrison Ford and River Phoenix) and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).
Mirren also won Emmys for playing Ayn Rand in 1999's The Passion of Ayn Rand and Queen Elizabeth I in 2005's Elizabeth I.
www.who2.com /helenmirren.html   (318 words)

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