Helen Mirren
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE (née Mironoff) is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, after two previous nominations, for her performance in The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen. Mirren won her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed ITV series Prime Suspect, which ran for a total of seven seasons between 1991 and 2006.
Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film Cal, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, 2010 (1984), The Cook, the ... Show more...
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE (née Mironoff) is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, after two previous nominations, for her performance in The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen. Mirren won her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed ITV series Prime Suspect, which ran for a total of seven seasons between 1991 and 2006.
Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film Cal, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, 2010 (1984), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Calendar Girls (2003), The Last Station (2009), Hitchcock (2012), and The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014). She also starred as Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2. Show less...
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Fast & Furious 9 (2020)
As: Magdalene Shaw
The next installment in the franchise.
Directed by: Justin Lin
Stars: Vin Diesel | Michelle Rodriguez | Lucas Black | Jordana Brewster | Cody Walker
The Good Liar (2019)
As: Betty McLeish
An aging con artist cannot believe his luck when he meets a wealthy widow and marks her as his next target. But she hides a secret of her own.
Directed by: Bill Condon
Stars: Ian McKellen | Helen Mirren
Anna (2019)
As: Olga
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Directed by: Luc Besson
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Helen Mirren | Luke Evans | Alexander Petrov | Sasha Luss
An Accidental Studio (2019)
As: Herself (archive footage)
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
Directed by: Bill Jones | Kim Leggatt | Ben Timlett
Stars: Helen Mirren | Bob Hoskins | Michael Palin | Richard E. Grant | George Harrison
Berlin, I Love You (2019)
As: Margaret
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Massy Tadjedin | Dianna Agron | Til Schweiger | Josef Rusnak | Daniel Lwowski | Dani Levy | Dennis Gansel | Justin Franklin | Fernando Eimbcke | Peter Chelsom
Stars: Diego Luna | Keira Knightley | Helen Mirren | Jim Sturgess | Patrick Dempsey
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
As: Mother Ginger
A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
Directed by: Lasse Hallström | Joe Johnston
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Keira Knightley | Helen Mirren | Matthew Macfadyen | Mackenzie Foy
Winchester (2018)
As: Sarah Winchester
Firearm heiress Sarah Winchester is convinced that she is haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she throws herself into the construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep the evil spirits at bay. But when a skeptical San Francisco psychiatrist is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Michael Spierig | Peter Spierig
Stars: Helen Mirren | Angus Sampson | Laura Brent | Jason Clarke | Sarah Snook
The Leisure Seeker (2017)
As: Ella Spencer
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Paolo Virzì
Stars: Helen Mirren | Christian McKay | Donald Sutherland | Janel Moloney | Kirsty Mitchell
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
As: Magdalene Shaw
When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Stars: Jason Statham | Vin Diesel | Michelle Rodriguez | Dwayne Johnson | Tyrese Gibson
Cries from Syria (2017)
As: Narrator
An attempt to re-contextualize the European migrant crisis and ongoing hostilities in Syria, through eyewitness and participant testimony. Children and parents recount the revolution, civil war, air strikes, atrocities and ongoing humanitarian aid crises, in a portrait of recent history and the consequences of violence.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Evgeny Afineevsky
Stars: Helen Mirren | Hadi Al Abdullah | Raed Al Saleh
Collateral Beauty (2016)
As: Brigitte
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: David Frankel
Stars: Edward Norton | Kate Winslet | Helen Mirren | Michael Peña | Will Smith
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Gregory Doran | Bridget Caldwell | Robin Mason | Tim Taggart
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch | Joseph Fiennes | Judi Dench | David Tennant | Catherine Tate
Trumbo (2015)
As: Hedda Hopper
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Jay Roach
Stars: Bryan Cranston | Helen Mirren | Diane Lane | Elle Fanning | Louis C.K.
Eye in the Sky (2015)
As: Colonel Katherine Powell
A military officer in command of a drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya sees her mission escalate from “capture” to “kill” just as a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Stars: Helen Mirren | Aaron Paul | Jeremy Northam | Alan Rickman | Barkhad Abdi
Unity (2015)
As: Herself - Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Shaun Monson
Stars: Alison Eastwood | Aaron Paul | Amanda Seyfried | Adrian Grenier | Adam Levine
Woman in Gold (2015)
As: Maria Altmann
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Simon Curtis
Stars: Helen Mirren | Katie Holmes | Tatiana Maslany | Ryan Reynolds | Max Irons
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
As: Madam Mallory
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Helen Mirren | Om Puri | Manish Dayal | Rohan Chand | Charlotte Le Bon
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story (2014)
As: Narrator
In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive. With an American mother and Indian Muslim father, she was an extremely unusual British agent. After her network collapsed, Khan became the only surviving radio operator linking the British to the French Resistance in Paris, coordinating the airdrop of weapons and agents, and the rescue ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Robert H. Gardner
Stars: Helen Mirren | Grace Srinivasan | Joe Isenberg
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
As: Herself - Interviewee
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Rob Epstein | Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Annette Bening | Billy Crystal | Anjelica Huston | Cher
RED 2 (2013)
As: Victoria
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Dean Parisot
Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Helen Mirren | Bruce Willis | John Malkovich | Anthony Hopkins
Monsters University (2013)
As: Dean Hardscrabble (voice)
A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University — when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Dan Scanlon
Stars: Helen Mirren | Steve Buscemi | Billy Crystal | John Goodman | Noah Johnston
National Theatre Live: The Audience (2013)
As: Queen Elizabeth II
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace – a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street ...
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Helen Mirren | Nathaniel Parker | Michael Elwyn | Richard McCabe | Haydn Gwynne
Phil Spector (2013)
As: Linda Kenney Baden
A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David Mamet
Stars: Helen Mirren | Jeffrey Tambor | Rebecca Pidgeon | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Al Pacino
Hitchcock (2012)
As: Alma Reville
Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Sacha Gervasi
Stars: Helen Mirren | Jessica Biel | Anthony Hopkins | Scarlett Johansson | James D'Arcy
The Door (2012)
As: Emerenc
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: István Szabó
Stars: Helen Mirren | Martina Gedeck | Károly Eperjes | Enikő Börcsök | Gábor Koncz
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts (2011)
As: Herself
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the British comic book writer Warren Ellis. The film combines extensive interviews with Ellis with insights from his colleagues and friends, as well as ambient visual re-creations of his prose and comics work.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Patrick Meaney
Stars: Lenora Claire | Warren Ellis | Matt Fraction | Darick Robertson | Molly Crabapple
Arthur (2011)
As: Hobson
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn't like.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Jason Winer
Stars: Helen Mirren | Geraldine James | Russell Brand | Jennifer Garner | Greta Gerwig
The Tempest (2010)
As: Prospera
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Stars: Helen Mirren | Felicity Jones | David Strathairn | Reeve Carney | Tom Conti
RED (2010)
As: Victoria
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Stars: Karl Urban | Helen Mirren | Bruce Willis | Mary-Louise Parker | John Malkovich
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
As: Nyra (voice)
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Stars: Essie Davis | Emily Barclay | Deborra-Lee Furness | Abbie Cornish | Joel Edgerton
Brighton Rock (2010)
As: Ida
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Rowan Joffe
Stars: Andy Serkis | John Hurt | Helen Mirren | Andrea Riseborough | Sam Riley
The Debt (2010)
As: Rachel Singer
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: John Madden
Stars: Helen Mirren | Tom Wilkinson | Ciarán Hinds | Jessica Chastain | Sam Worthington
Love Ranch (2010)
As: Grace Bontempo
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Helen Mirren | Joe Pesci | Sergio Peris-Mencheta | Gina Gershon | Taryn Manning
The Last Station (2009)
As: Sofya Tolstoya
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Helen Mirren | James McAvoy | Christopher Plummer | Anne-Marie Duff
Yes Madam, Sir (2009)
As: Narrator
Filmed in India over six years and narrated by Academy Award winning actor, Helen Mirren, YES MADAM, SIR is a ‘David and Goliath’ epic story profiling Asia Nobel Prize winner, Kiran Bedi – India’s first woman police officer.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Megan Doneman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Kiran Bedi
State of Play (2009)
As: Cameron Lynne
Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Russell Crowe | Robin Wright | Helen Mirren | Rachel McAdams | Ben Affleck
The Jazz Baroness (2009)
As: Nica - Narrator
The true story of a British heiress's love for jazz genius Thelonious Monk.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Hannah Rothschild
Stars: Helen Mirren | Quincy Jones | Sonny Rollins
Inkheart (2008)
As: Elinor Loredan
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Andy Serkis | Sienna Guillory | Eliza Bennett | Paul Bettany | Brendan Fraser
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
As: Emily Appleton
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Ed Harris | Harvey Keitel | Jon Voight | Diane Kruger
The Queen (2006)
As: Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Helen Mirren | James Cromwell | Michael Sheen | Helen McCrory | Alex Jennings
Shadowboxer (2006)
As: Rose
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Lee Daniels
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Helen Mirren | Stephen Dorff | Vanessa Ferlito | Cuba Gooding Jr.
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005)
As: Tiberia
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa.
Runtime: 5 min.
Directed by: Francesco Vezzoli
Stars: Helen Mirren | Milla Jovovich | Gerard Butler | Barbara Bouchet | Benicio del Toro
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
As: Deep Thought
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Garth Jennings
Stars: Sam Rockwell | John Malkovich | Zooey Deschanel | Martin Freeman | Yasiin Bey
The Clearing (2004)
As: Eileen Hayes
When affluent executive, Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Pieter Jan Brugge
Stars: Matt Craven | Helen Mirren | Willem Dafoe | Robert Redford | Alessandro Nivola
Pride (2004)
As: Macheeba (voice)
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Downer
Stars: Sean Bean | Kate Winslet | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Jim Broadbent
Raising Helen (2004)
As: Dominique Courier
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of her life!
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Spencer Breslin | John Corbett | Kate Hudson | Joan Cusack | Hayden Panettiere
Calendar Girls (2003)
As: Chris Harper
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Stars: Helen Mirren | Linda Bassett | Julie Walters | John Alderton | Annette Crosbie
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
As: Karen Stone
An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Robert Allan Ackerman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Brian Dennehy | Olivier Martinez | Anne Bancroft | Rodrigo Santoro
Door to Door (2002)
As: Mrs. Porter
Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. Bill Porter is one of those heroes. Born with cerebral palsy, he was told for many years that he was unemployable. But with the unwavering support ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Steven Schachter
Stars: Helen Mirren | William H. Macy | Kathy Baker | Joel Brooks | Kyra Sedgwick
Gosford Park (2001)
As: Mrs. Wilson
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Maggie Smith | Clive Owen | Jeremy Northam | Geraldine Somerville
Last Orders (2001)
As: Amy
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Michael Caine | David Hemmings | Helen Mirren | Bob Hoskins | Tom Courtenay
Greenfingers (2001)
As: Georgina Woodhouse
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His talent is recognized by a gardening guru who encourages him and four other inmates to enter a national gardening competition
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Joel Hershman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Danny Dyer | Clive Owen | David Kelly | Warren Clarke
On The Edge (2001)
The Directorial debuts of Helen Mirren, Anne Heche & Mary Stuart Masterson Presented in three tales that will take you to the edge.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Anne Heche | Mary Stuart Masterson | Helen Mirren | Jana Sue Memel
Stars: Christopher Lloyd | David Hyde Pierce | Bruce Davison | John Goodman | Sydney Tamiia Poitier
No Such Thing (2001)
As: The Boss
Tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a tabloid journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. She ends up falling in love with the monster in the end. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by contacting a scientist who can destroy matter painlessly.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Hal Hartley
Stars: Helen Mirren | Sarah Polley | Robert John Burke | Julie Christie | Margrét Ákadóttir
The Pledge (2001)
As: Doctor
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Sean Penn
Stars: Aaron Eckhart | Robin Wright | Helen Mirren | Vanessa Redgrave | Jack Nicholson
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
As: Mrs. Eve Tingle
Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle, and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Kevin Williamson
Stars: Helen Mirren | Jeffrey Tambor | Vivica A. Fox | Katie Holmes | Molly Ringwald
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
As: Ayn Rand
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Christopher Menaul
Stars: Helen Mirren | Eric Stoltz | Peter Fonda | Julie Delpy
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
As: The Queen
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds, as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth, and the other the chosen leader of his people! Their final ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Brenda Chapman | Steve Hickner | Simon Wells
Stars: Val Kilmer | Ralph Fiennes | Sandra Bullock | Michelle Pfeiffer | Patrick Stewart
Painted Lady (1998)
As: Maggie Sheridan
From the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction, a rekindled interracial love affair, helpful relatives and a painting of great price. She finds more than she bargained for in the labyrinth and milieu of stolen art.
Runtime: 204 min.
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Stars: Helen Mirren | Iain Glen
Critical Care (1997)
As: Stella
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Helen Mirren | Albert Brooks | James Spader | Kyra Sedgwick | Anne Bancroft
Some Mother's Son (1996)
As: Kathleen Quigley
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: David O'Hara | Helen Mirren | John Lynch | Aidan Gillen | Fionnula Flanagan
Losing Chase (1996)
As: Chase Phillips
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Kevin Bacon
Stars: Helen Mirren | Beau Bridges | Kyra Sedgwick | Lucas Denton | Michael Yarmush
Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness (1995)
As: Jane Tennison
From IMDB: A series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern of Superintendent Jane Tennison's first major case leads to the awful suggestion that she may have caught the wrong man the first time.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Paul Marcus
Stars: Stuart Wilson | Helen Mirren | Tim Woodward | Stephen Boxer | Pip Donaghy
The Snow Queen (1995)
As: The Snow Queen
Animated retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fable, directed by Martin Gates and featuring the voices of Helen Mirren, David Jason and Rik Mayall. Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it freezes over. But her mirror breaks, and on her mission to find all the missing pieces, she kidnaps Tom, who has ...
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Martin Gates
Stars: Helen Mirren | David Jason | Hugh Laurie | Ellie Beaven
The Madness of King George (1994)
As: Queen Charlotte
King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Ian Holm | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Nigel Hawthorne | Amanda Donohoe
Prince of Jutland (1994)
As: Geruth
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Gabriel Axel
Stars: Brian Cox | Christian Bale | Helen Mirren | Steven Waddington | Gabriel Byrne
The Hawk (1993)
As: Annie Marsh
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: David Hayman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Rosemary Leach | Melanie Hill | George Costigan | Owen Teale
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993)
As: Frances Penny Bethune
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
Runtime: 168 min.
Directed by: Phillip Borsos
Stars: Helen Mirren | Donald Sutherland | James Pax | Helen Shaver | Colm Feore
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
As: Lilia Herriton
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Judy Davis | Barbara Jefford
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
As: Caroline
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Helen Mirren | Christopher Walken | Rupert Everett | Natasha Richardson | Manfredi Aliquo
Red King, White Knight (1989)
As: Anna
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a ...
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Geoff Murphy
Stars: Helen Mirren | Max von Sydow | Tom Skerritt | Tom Bell | Neil Dudgeon
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
As: Georgina Spica
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Alan Howard | Helen Mirren | Tim Roth | Michael Gambon | Richard Bohringer
When the Whales Came (1989)
As: Clemmie Jenkins
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Clive Rees
Stars: Helen Mirren | Paul Scofield | David Threlfall | Helen Pearce | Max Rennie
Pascali's Island (1988)
As: Lydia Neuman
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: James Dearden
Stars: Helen Mirren | Ben Kingsley | Nadim Sawalha | Charles Dance | Kevork Malikyan
Cause célèbre (1987)
As: Alma Rattenbury
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: John Gorrie
Stars: Helen Mirren | David Morrissey | Harry Andrews | Norma West | David Suchet
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
As: Mother Fox
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Stars: Helen Mirren | Harrison Ford | Martha Plimpton | River Phoenix | Conrad Roberts
Heavenly Pursuits (1986)
As: Ruth Chancellor
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Charles Gormley
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Helen Mirren | Tom Conti | David Hayman | Brian Pettifer
White Nights (1985)
As: Galina Ivanova
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he trust the American?
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Helen Mirren | Gregory Hines | Geraldine Page | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Jerzy Skolimowski
2010 (1984)
As: Tanya Kirbuk
This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. Discovery in orbit around Jupiter's moons. The U.S.S. Discovery's orbit is rapidly decaying and it will crash into IO but the Americans cannot get there in time to save ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Stars: Helen Mirren | John Lithgow | Bob Balaban | Roy Scheider | Keir Dullea
Cal (1984)
As: Marcella
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: John Kavanagh | Helen Mirren | John Lynch | Donal McCann | Ray McAnally
Cymbeline (1982)
As: Imogen
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Runtime: 175 min.
Directed by: Elijah Moshinsky
Stars: Helen Mirren | Claire Bloom | Richard Johnson | Robert Lindsay | Michael Pennington
Soft Targets (1982)
As: Celia
A Russian in London finds himself targeted by British Intelligence.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Stars: Ian Holm | Helen Mirren | Thorley Walters | Celia Gregory | Nigel Havers
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
As: Titania
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Elijah Moshinsky
Stars: Helen Mirren | Brian Glover | Phil Daniels | Nigel Davenport | Estelle Kohler
Excalibur (1981)
As: Morgana
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
Runtime: 140 min.
Directed by: John Boorman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Cherie Lunghi | Nigel Terry | Paul Geoffrey | Nicholas Clay
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' (1981)
As: Herself - 'Caesonia'
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
Runtime: 62 min.
Directed by: Giancarlo Lui
Stars: Helen Mirren | Malcolm McDowell | Tinto Brass | Gore Vidal | Lori Wagner
The Long Good Friday (1980)
As: Victoria
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: John Mackenzie
Stars: Helen Mirren | Bob Hoskins | Bryan Marshall | Paul Freeman | Dave King
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
As: Alice Rage
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Piers Haggard | Richard Quine | Peter Sellers
Stars: Helen Mirren | Peter Sellers | Simon Williams | Sid Caesar | David Tomlinson
Hussy (1980)
As: Beaty Simons
Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Matthew Chapman
Stars: Helen Mirren | John Shea | Jenny Runacre | Paul Angelis | Murray Salem
S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
As: May Sloan - Stewardess
The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: William Hale
Stars: Ian Holm | Cloris Leachman | David Warner | David Janssen | Susan Saint James
Caligula (1979)
As: Caesonia
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
Runtime: 156 min.
Directed by: Bob Guccione | Tinto Brass | Giancarlo Lui
Stars: Helen Mirren | Malcolm McDowell | Peter O'Toole | John Gielgud | Teresa Ann Savoy
As You Like It (1978)
Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, ...
Runtime: 151 min.
Directed by: Basil Coleman
Stars: Helen Mirren | Angharad Rees | Clive Francis | Richard Pasco | Brian Stirner
Caesar and Claretta (1975)
As: Claretta Petacci
'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce, played by Robert Hardy) and his mistress Claretta (played by Helen Mirren).
Runtime: 50 min.
Directed by: Claude Whatham
Stars: Helen Mirren | Robert Hardy | Oliver Cotton
O Lucky Man! (1973)
As: Patricia / Casting Assistant
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe.
Runtime: 178 min.
Directed by: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Helen Mirren | Malcolm McDowell | Ralph Richardson | Rachel Roberts | Arthur Lowe
Savage Messiah (1972)
As: Gosh Boyle
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Helen Mirren | Michael Gough | Scott Antony | Lindsay Kemp | Dorothy Tutin
Miss Julie (1972)
As: Miss Julie
Adaptation of the play by Strindberg.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Glenister | Robin Phillips
Stars: Helen Mirren | Donal McCann | Heather Canning
Red Hot Shot (1970)
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Piero Zuffi
Stars: Barbara Bouchet | Michael Reardon | David Groh | Carmelo Bene | Susanna Martinková
Age of Consent (1969)
As: Cora Ryan
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Michael Powell
Stars: Helen Mirren | Neva Carr-Glynn | James Mason | Jack MacGowran | Andonia Katsaros
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
As: Hermia
Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Peter Hall
Stars: Helen Mirren | Michael Jayston | David Warner | Barbara Jefford | Derek Godfrey
Herostratus (1967)
As: Advert Woman
When Max, a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Don Levy
Stars: Michael Gothard | Gabriella Licudi | Antony Paul | Mona Chin | Peter Stephens
The One and Only Ivan ()
As: (voice)
A gorilla named Ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named Stella as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
Directed by: Thea Sharrock
Stars: Bryan Cranston | Sam Rockwell | Angelina Jolie | Ariana Greenblatt | Brooklynn Prince