Helen Mirren is a British theater and movie actress who has an estimated net worth of $50 million. Ilyena Vasílievna Mironova on July 25th, 1945 in London, the capital of England. She is the granddaughter of a Russian colonel who was distinguished in the British capital by the imperial government at the time of the Russian Revolution.
Due to his relationship with Tsarism, his family suffered forced exile. Her mother was the daughter of a butcher, and her grandfather had been Queen Victoria’s butcher. Some say, she has gypsy blood.
Education and debut in cinema.
She was educated in St Bernard School (Essex), she took an interest in the interpretation world. In 1965, she debuted with Cleopatra at the National Youth Theater. This work was followed by Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth, where she incarnated Lady Macbeth. In cinema, she delves into her classic repertoire with Dream on a Summer Night (1968), where she played Hermia. Peter Brook offered her a tour to the north of Africa with The Conference of the Birds in 1971.
Trajectory.
Consolidated in her trajectory, Helen Mirren made the double role of Ofelia and Gertrudis in Hamlet (1976), but her popularity shot up after starring in the erotic scenes of Caligula, by Tinto Brass (1979), where her image as liberated and sexually accessible woman was finally settled.
In the following years, John Boorman called her to compose Morgana in Excalibur (1981), dark review of the Arthurian myth, and Peter Weir offered her the character of Harrison Ford’s wife on The Mosquito Coast (1986).
In 1984, the actress won for the first time, Cannes Festival prize for Cal (directed by Pat O’Connor), in which she interpreted Marcela, widow of a man assassinated by the IRA, that lives a romance with a member of the terrorist organization. In the same route, the actress accepted roles in The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, (1990) and with Sir Michael Gambon starred The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, (1989)), a film that provoked a certain scandal and where she played Georgina, a jaded woman from her marriage who finds a lover.
The Queen.
She is one of the few actresses who has won the four major awards within the cinema for a single film (The Queen): the Oscar, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award. The film The Queen, where she portrayed Elizabeth II at the time Lady Di dies in an automobile accident.
Previously, the shooting of Calendar Girls (2003), where she plays Chris, a village woman who decides to encourage her friend Annie (Julie Walters), just widowed, proposing to participate – to raise funds for an association – in the development of a Calendar where they would pose naked; Decision that would bring her a great success, including a trip to Hollywood. The unexpected commercial success of the film earned her a Golden Globe nomination. That same year she was decorated Lady Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
