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. She 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.
Helen Mirren parents: Who are her father and mother?
Helen Lydia Mironoff, the daughter of an English mother and a Russian father, was born on July 26, 1945, at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London’s Hammersmith neighbourhood.
A working-class lady from West Ham, Kathleen “Kitty” Alexandrina Eva Matilda (née Rogers; 1908–1996) was the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher, whose own father served as Queen Victoria’s butcher. Vasily Petrovich Mironoff (1913–1980), the father of Mirren, was born into an exiled Russian aristocratic family; at the age of two, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov brought him to England.
