Helen Mirren

English actor. Her many honors include an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards. She won twenty-nine major awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006). She also won an Emmy for the title role in Elizabeth I. She began her career in 1967, when she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her breakthrough role came as Nina in a 1975 London revival of Chekhov's The Seagull. Her movie career includes notable roles in Caligula (1980) and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989), Cal (1984) The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009). Also found success on television with signature role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. She supports numerous charities, including Oxfam, Children of Peace (UK), and the National Literary Trust (UK). In 2003, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).