- Born
- Birth nameHelen Lydia Mironoff
- Nickname
- Popper
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. Mirren attended St. Bernards High School for girls, where she would act in school productions. After high school, she began her acting career in theatre working in many productions including in the West End and Broadway.
- IMDb mini biography by: Aidanmacv
- SpouseTaylor Hackford(December 31, 1997 - present)
- Children
- ParentsKathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Mironoff (Rogers)Vasiliy Petrovich Mironoff
- RelativesPeter Basil Mironoff(Sibling)Katherine Mironoff(Sibling)Tania Mallet(Cousin)
- Her great-great-great-great-grandfather was field-marshal Kamensky, one of the Russian heroes of the Napoleonic wars.
- She was initially hesitant to sign on to RED (2010) due to film's graphic violence, but changed her mind upon learning of Bruce Willis' involvement.
- Her paternal grandparents were Russian. Her grandfather, Piotr Vasilievich Mironoff, was a Tsarist aristocrat who was in London negotiating an arms deal during World War I when the 1917 Russian Revolution stranded him there. His wife and son (Helen's father) joined him in London. On her mother's side, she is of English descent.
- Has a tattoo of a star on her left hand, acquired at a Native American reservation in Minnesota.
- She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
- [About herself] Being famous for being cool about not being gorgeous.
- The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
- [About the Academy Awards] It's the creme-de-la-creme of bulls**t.
- Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. I can't stand it when they behave like solicitors from Penge. I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.
- All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
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