Helen Lydia Mironoff, better known by her stage as Dame Helen Mirren, was born in England on July 26, 1945.
She has received several awards, and she is the only actor to have won the Triple Crown of Acting in both the US and the UK. For her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, she won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. She also won a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience.
Helen also won three British Academy Television Awards for her work as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. She also won four Primetime Emmy Awards, including two for Prime Suspect.
Where did Helen Mirren go to high school?
Mirren attended St. Bernard’s High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea and Hamlet Court Primary School in Westcliff-on-Sea, where she performed in school productions of Hansel and Gretel and held the lead part.
She then enrolled in the New College of Speech and Drama, a teaching institution in London that was “housed within Anna Pavlova’s old home, Ivy House,” on North End Road.
Helen was accepted into the National Youth Theatre (NYT) at the age of eighteen, and at the age of twenty, she appeared as Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic. She credits this part with “launching my career” and getting her signed with agent Al Parker.
