Helen Mirren

Her journey began on the London stage, where a 1965 performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra opened the door to the Royal Shakespeare Company. She made her West End debut in 1975 and never looked back. Her screen breakthrough came with The Long Good Friday in 1980, followed by a string of acclaimed performances in Cal, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and Gosford Park. She has played both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II on screen, a feat no other actor has matched. Her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) is considered a career highlight, but her work as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect brought her into living rooms across the world and earned her three consecutive BAFTA Television Awards. Her stage work includes The Audience, for which she won a Tony, and she has also appeared in the Red action films, The Fate of the Furious, and Hobbs & Shaw. More recently, she starred in The Leisure Seeker and Woman in Gold.

Off screen, Mirren is a natural blonde with hazel eyes, standing 5'4" tall with an average build. She has a symbol tattoo at the base of her left thumb and piercings in her ears. Her measurements are 38–26–37 with a bra cup size of 36C. She has been active in film and television since the 1960s, and her stardom shows no signs of fading. She received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2022 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mirren's career is a testament to her talent and adaptability, though she remains down to earth. She is 80 years old, but she continues to work, and her Instagram following of 1.2 million proves her enduring appeal.