Her father is of Russian origin and comes from an aristocratic family: Who is Helen Mirren?
Dame Helen Mirren, a British theatre, film, and television actress who won the Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG awards, was born in London on July 26, 1945.
Mirren is the second of the family's three children. She has an older sister named Katherine ("Kate"), who is two years older than him, and a brother named Peter Basil, named after her grandfather.
At the age of 18, she auditioned for the National Youth Theater and was accepted. At the age of 20, she played "Cleopatra" in the NYT production of "Antony and Cleopatra", played at the Old Vic theatre. After her work with the NYT, Mirren began working at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Helen Mirren's “State Plays”, “Queen”, “Calendar Girls”, “Teacher”, “Special Interest”, “2010”, “Oh Lucky Man!” and has appeared in many other films.
Dame Helen Mirren (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades and is the only performer to have achieved both the American and the British Triple Crowns of Acting. Mirren has received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying the same character in The Audience, as well as three British Academy Television Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.
Who is Helen Mirren?
Born on 26 July 1945, Dame Helen Mirren is an Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG award-winning British theatre, film, and television actress.
Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Chiswick, West London. Her father was Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913-1980), of Russian origin, and her mother was Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (née Rogers; 1909-1980), of English origin.
Mirren's paternal grandfather, Pyotr Vassilievich Mironov, was a Russian nobleman, Tsarist colonel and diplomat. Mironov, who came to Britain to negotiate an arms agreement during the 1917 Russian Revolution, settled here with her family. One of Mirren's great-grandfathers, Russian field marshal Mikhail Kaminski, is a hero of the Napoleonic Wars.
Her father identified himself as Basil and changed the family name to Mirren in the 1950s. Mirren is the second of the family's three children. She has an older sister named Katherine ("Kate"), who is two years older than him, and a brother named Peter Basil, named after her grandfather.
When she was 18, Mirren auditioned for the National Youth Theater and was accepted. When she was 20, she played Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra, played at the Old Vic.
After her work with NYT, Mirren began working at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Here she played Castiza in Trevor Nunn's 1966 adaptation of The Revenger's Tragedy, Diana in 1967's All's Well That Ends Well, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida in 1968, and Phebe in As You Like It. In 1970, she played Julia in the play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tatiana in Gorky's play Enemies performed at the Aldwych, and the title character in the play Miss Julie performed at The Other Place in 1971.