Dame Helen Mirren is a famous English actress. Her DBE is also recognized. She has won several awards and is the only actress to win the American and British Triple Crowns. Mirren won the Oscar and British Academy Film Award for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.
She won four Primetime Emmys and a Children’s and Family Emmy. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company after playing Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra” at the National Youth Theatre in 1965. This led to her landmark 1975 West End debut.
Continuing her career, she succeeded in cinema and television. Her roles in The Madness of King George, Gosford Park, and The Last Station earned her Oscar nods.
Meet Helen Mirren’s Husband Taylor Hackford
Taylor Hackford and Helen Mirren married in 1997. Her hubby is an Oscar winner too. Former Directors Guild of America president Taylor directed films. His short film Teenage Father received an Oscar.
Ray, his other film, was nominated for Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. Both had made their mark on movies by 1985 when they met. Her husband Taylor had big office blockbusters including An Officer and a Gentleman and The Idolmaker, while the Emmy winner had made a breakthrough with The Long Good Friday in 1980.
Helen was cast in Taylor’s 1985 picture White Nights, bringing them together. Taylor recounted their meeting in a 2006 AARP piece on Helen, saying he made her wait for her audition. Hackford said, “It was a strange way to meet Helen because she is a lovely person, but she didn’t hold back her fury”. The Oscar-winning pair married in their early 50s.
Helen Mirren’s Siblings Examined
The acting royalty was born in West London’s Queen Charlotte’s Hospital on July 26, 1945. Helen Mirren’s mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda, was working-class English. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Kuryanovo-born Russian public worker.
The talented actor has three siblings. She has a brother Peter Basil, a sister Katherine, and a late brother Ian Mirren. Her older sister Katherine teaches, while her younger brother Peter plays jazz bass.
Unfortunately, her other brother Ian Mirren died early. Helen has said in interviews that her siblings shaped her love of the arts and supported her profession. Katherine and Peter stay close, sharing love, inspiration, and support throughout their lives despite Ian’s death. The Awardist adores their relationship as she excels at performing.
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