Dame Helen Mirren DBE was born July 26, 1945, in London. Helen has won several honors and is the only actor to win the American and British Triple Crowns. Mirren played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre in 1965.
The Royal Shakespeare Company hired her before her 1975 West End debut. Mirren was inaugurated at Buckingham Palace as a Dame (DBE) in the 2003 Queen’s Birthday Honors for drama.
Katherine, Helen Mirren’s sister, where?
Kathrine Mirren, Helen’s sister, teaches in the UK. The talented actor has three siblings. Her siblings are Peter Basil Mironoff, Katherine Mironoff, and Ian Mirren, who died. Helen’s younger brother plays jazz bass.
Unfortunately, her other brother Ian Mirren died early. Kathleen Alexandrina Helen Mirren’s mother, Eva Matilda, was reared in a working-class English household. Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, a Kuryanovo-born government officer, was her father. In interviews, Helen has said that her siblings helped her develop her passion for the arts and support her career.
Katherine and Peter have a lifelong connection that brings them love, inspiration, and support after Ian’s death. The Award winner values their relationship as she succeeds in performing.
Helen Mirren’s Family and Husband
Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith to an English mother and a Russian father. Helen’s father was a government officer and her mother was working-class. Also, Mirren’s father, Vasily Petrovich Mironoff, was a Russian noble banished. Her mother is Kathleen “Kitty” Alexandrina Eva Matilda.
The 1904 Russo-Japanese War saw Petrovich as an Imperial Russian Army colonel. Helen’s father quit the symphony soon after her birth and drove a taxi to support the family. Helen Mirren married Taylor Hackford in 1997. Her spouse also won an Oscar. An Oscar-winning couple married in their early 50s.
Taylor is a former DGA president and American film director. His short film Teenage Father was nominated for an Oscar. His previous picture Ray was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. When they met in 1985, they were both successful entertainers.
The 1980 film The Long Good Friday made the Emmy winner famous, while her husband Taylor had hit the movie office with An Officer and a Gentleman and The Idolmaker. They met when Helen appeared in Taylor’s 1985 film White Nights. She has no children yet.
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