Helen Mirren

At 78 years old, Helen Mirren has this physical status:

Helen Lydia Mirren, (née Mironoff, born 26 July 1945), is an English actress.

Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and is one of the few performers to have performed to the Triple Crown of Acting.

She received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2007 for her appearance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, and she received the Olivier Award for Best Actress and Tony in a Play for the same role in The Audience. The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009) were among Mirren's other Academy Award nominations.

Jane Tennison, a female investigator on British television series Prime Suspect from 1991 to 2006, received three BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, as well as two Emmy Awards from 1992 to 2006.

Elizabeth I (2005) won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the miniseries Elizabeth I (2005). Julia Tingle (2005), Calendar Girls (2003), Hitchcock (2005), and The Leisure Seeker (2017) are some of her other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Cook, the Wife, His Lover (1989), The Cook (1989), The Cook (1989), The Cook, the Uncertainty (1989), and The Year of Gold (1984), A History (1989), The Cook.'s (1989).

Hobbs & Shaw (2019), an action film from Red (2010), Red 2 (2013), and Hobbs & Shaw. In 2003, she was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contributions to drama.

Mirren was named a member of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, and BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship in 2014.

Early life

Helen Lydia Mironoff was born in London's Hammersmith district on July 26, 1945, to an English mother and Russian father. Kathleen "Kitty" Alexandrina Matilda (née Rogers), a working-class woman from West Ham who was the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher whose own father was Queen Victoria, was the butcher to Queen Victoria. Vasily Petrovich Mironoff (1913-1980), the son of an exiled family of the Russian nobility, was taken to England by Mirren's father, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, who was arrested in England when he was two years old. Pyotr Mironov, who owned a family estate near Gzhatsk (now Gagarin), was a member of the Russian aristocracy. Countess Lydia Andreevna Kamenskaya, an aristocrat and descendant of Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky, a leading Russian general in the Napoleonic Wars, was his mother, Mirren's great-grandmother. Pyotr Mironov served as a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army and battled in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He became a diplomat and was negotiating an arms deal in the United Kingdom when he and his family were trapped by the Russian Revolution in 1917. He came from England and became a London cab driver to help his family.

Vasily Mironoff served as a taxi driver and later appeared in the London Philharmonic Orchestra as a viola. He was an ambulance driver during the war and served in the East End of London during the Blitz. He and Kathleen Rogers married in Hammersmith in 1938, but he changed the spelling of his first name to Basil at some time before 1951. Helen's mother died within a few months, and her father returned to driving a cab to help the family. He began work as a driving-test examiner and later became a Ministry of Transport civil servant. By deed vote in 1951, he changed the family name to Mirren. Mirren believes that her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist." She was the second of three children; she has an older sister Katherine ("Kate"; born 1942) and had a younger brother Peter Basil (1947-2002). Tania Mallet, a model and Bond child, was her paternal cousin. Mirren was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

Mirren attended Hamlet Court primary school in Westcliff-on-Sea, where she was the principal student of Hansel and Gretel's school production and St Bernard's High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea, where she also participated in school productions. "She lived within Anna Pavlova's old home, Ivy House," on North End Road, after attending a teaching college, the New College of Speech and Drama in London. She auditioned for the National Youth Theatre (NYT) at 18 and 20, and in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic, she played Cleopatra, which culminated in her career growth and culminated in her signing with agent Al Parker.

Personal life

Mirren met Liam Neeson, a Northern Irish actor, in the early 1980s, and they met while working on Excalibur (1981). Neeson said Mirren was instrumental in his finding an agent when being interviewed by James Lipton for Inside the Actors Studio.

In 1986, Mirren began dating American filmmaker Taylor Hackford. They were married on December 31, 1997 at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness, Scotland. They appeared on the set of White Nights (1985). It's her first marriage and his third (he has two children from his previous marriages). She has no children, despite the fact that she has "no maternal instinct whatsoever."

In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, Mirren's autobiography, In the Frame: In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, was published in the United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in September 2007. "Sumptuously illustrated, at first glance it seems to be another of the actors' photo albums." "But there are nearly 200 pages of densely printed text, an unusually candid account of her personal and professional life, mainly in the theater, which is delivered with forthright candour."

Mirren admitted in an interview that she was an atheist in 1990. "I am quite spiritual," she said in the Esquire's August 2011 issue. When I was a child, I believed in fairies. I do still believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. However, I don't believe in God.

Mirren said she was date raped as a student and had often used cocaine at parties in her twenties and 1980s. Since finding that Klaus Barbie made a living off heroin dealing, she stopped using it.

Mirren attended the unveiling of her waxwork at Madame Tussauds in London on May 11, 2010. She was one of the British cultural icons chosen by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new interpretation of his most popular work, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover features British cultural figures of his lifetime that he most admired. She was named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire in 2010, and in a 2011 photo shoot for the magazine, she stripped down and covered up with the Union Jack.

Mirren was introduced as one of several new models for Marks & Spencer's "Womanism" campaign in 2013. Mirren appeared on "Britain's Leading Women" from the campaign, including pop singer Ellie Goulding, Olympic gold medalist boxer Nicola Adams, and writer Monica Ali. Mirren was rated as one of the top doctors over 50 in the Guardian in March 2013.

"I'm a naturist at heart," she told the Radio Times. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. People, beautiful people, elderly people, or some other identifiers. It's so unisexual and liberating. By British Naturism, she was named Natureist of the Year in 2004. "Many thanks to British Naturism for this great honor," she said. "I do believe in naturism and am my happiest on a nude beach with people of all ages and races."

Mirren said that she was never a member of any political party in 2006. Mirren ran in her first presidential election in 2020, becoming a resident of the United States. Patricia Ackerman was a mentor in her run against Mark Amodei in Nevada's 2nd congressional district.

She appeared in "La Vacinada" (meaning the vaccinated woman in broken Spanish words) of Italian comedian and singer Checco Zalone in April 2021. Zalone sings of the fact that it is cheaper to have an affair with someone who has already been vaccinated against the virus in times of Covid-19 pandemic, and that, as the elderly get vaccinated first, an older partner (played by Mirren in the song) is now the right option.

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Theatre career

Mirren was accepted to the Royal Shakespeare Company as a result of her work with the National Youth Theatre (RSC). Julia in The Revenger's Tragedy, Diana (1967), Lindalind in All's Well That Ends Well (1969), Audrey in All's Well That Ends Well (1968), and Miss Julie in All's Well That Ends Well (1971), 1966; Robert In My Dearest (1971), a British actress who appeared in As You Like It (1968), Katherine in Trety's Enemies (1972), Helen in Miss Julie at The Other Place (1971), She appeared in four productions at the University Theatre in Manchester, directed by Braham Murray, between 1965 and 1967.

During her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970, the director and producer John Goldschmidt made Doing Her Own Thing. It was made for ATV and broadcast on the ITV network in the United Kingdom. Mirren appeared with Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre Research in 1972 and 1973, and she was part of the organization's tour in North Africa and the United States, where they created The Conference of the Birds. She rejoined the RSC in 1974 and 1975, appearing Lady Macbeth at Stratford and the Aldwych Theatre.

Mirren — while appearing in Nunn's Macbeth (1974), and in a letter to The Guardian newspaper — had sharply criticized both the National Theatre and the RSC for their lavish production budget, saying it was "unnessary and damaging to the art of the Theatre" and "uninhibited" across an abyss of costume and technology," Sally Beauman said in her 1982 history, prompting a debate in parliament. For this rebuke of the RSC, there were no apparent repercussions.

She appeared in Teeth 'n' Smiles, a musical play by David Hare, in September 1975 and reprised the role in a revival of the play at Wyndham's Theatre in May 1976.

Mirren appeared in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in Ben Travers' latest farce The Bed Before Yesterday (Mirren is vivacious as the Harlowesque good-time girl). The Guardian is a newspaper published in the United Kingdom. She appeared in Stratford's 1977 and at the Aldwych the following year, while Margaret Roberts' production of Measure for Measure at Riverside Studios won acclaim for her role as Isabella.

Faith Healer, a 1981 mother from the Royal Court, returned to the Royal Court for Brian Friel's Faith Healer's debut in London. She received acclaim for her role in The Duchess of Malfi, a production of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre that was later transferred to The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, in the same year. "Miss Mirren never leaves it in doubt that even in absences, this ardent, beautiful woman is the most important character of the story," she wrote for The Sunday Telegraph. Moll Cutpurse, an artist who appeared in The Roaring Girl in January 1983, and at the Barbican Theatre in April 1983, she was described as having "swaggered through the performance with a new sense of purpose, filling in spaces of light and shade that neither Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker omitted." Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983.

Mirren co-starred with Bob Peck at the Young Vic in the Arthur Miller double-bill's first appearance, prompting Miller to say, "What is so good about English actors is that they are not afraid of big emotions." Actors in the United Kingdom like to talk. There's a much more open-hearted conversation between stage and audience in London (interview by Sheridan Morley, The Times, January 11, 1989). In Elegy for a Lady, she played the svelte proprietress of a chic boutique, while in Some Kind of Love, she was "clad in a Freudian slip and shifting quickly from waif-like vulnerability to sexual assault, giving the role a breathy Monroesque quality."

Elizabeth II appeared in Peter Morgan's The Audience's World Premiere on February 15, 2013 at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End. Stephen Daldry produced the program. In April, she was named best actress at the Olivier Awards for her role.

Bill Bryden played Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country in 1994, a further stage breakthrough came in 1994 in a Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production destined for the West End. In only her second professional stage appearance as the cocksure young tutor Belyaev, John Hurt co-stars.

Mirren had twice been considered for Broadway's Best Actress in a Play before 2015: in 1995 for her debut in A Month in the Country and then again in 2002 for The Dance of Death, co-starring Sir Ian McKellen, during the 9/11 attacks in New York.

Mirren received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play on June 7th, 2015, for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience (an award she also received for Best Actress). Her Tony Award nomination made her one of the few actresses to win the United States "Triple Crown of Acting," joining the ranks of legendary actors such as Ingrid Bergman and Al Pacino.

Mirren appeared in Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre in 1998. The production received poor feedback; the Guardian called it "noticable spectacle rarely informed by ferocity," while The Daily Telegraph said "the vital sexual chemistry on which any major production ultimately relies is fatally missing." In 2000, Nicholas Hytner, who had worked with Mirren on the film version of The Madness of King George, portrayed Lady Torrance in his revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Michael Billington, a Guardian journalist, described her work as "an outstanding investigation of an immigrant woman who has inherited a patina of tenacity but who gradually admits to her sensuality."

She was praised at the National Theatre in November 2003 for her role as Christine Mannon ("defiantly cool, camp, and skittish," Evening Standard; "glows with mature sexual allure" in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra directed by Howard Davies in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra directed by Howard Davies" in an election. "This performance was one of my finest experiences of my professional life," the actor said. It was the serendipity of a beautifully cast performance with a great set piece and direction that it would be impossible to be in anything better." In a performance directed by Nicholas Hytner, she appeared in Jean Racine's Phèdre at the National in 2009. On both 11 and 12 July 2009, the show was also staged at the Epidaurus amphitheatre.

Film career

Mirren has appeared in a number of films over her career. Several of her early film appearances include roles in Herostratus (1967) Dir. Don Levy, Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), Age of Consent (1969), O Lucky Man! (1973), Caligula (1979), The Long Good Friday (1980) — co-starring Bob Hoskins in what was her debut film role, Excalibur (1981), Pascali's Island (1989) and When the Whales Came (1989) She appeared in The Madness of King George (1994) Some Mother's Son (1996), Painted Lady (1996), and The Prince of Egypt (1998). Mirren plays The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Peter Greenaway's colorful book The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and His Lover plays the wife opposite Michael Gambon. Mrs. Tingle, a 1999 teacher, appears in Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1998).

At a casting call in 1964, she said that director Michael Winner had treated her "like a piece of meat." When asked about the event, she told The Guardian: "I don't remember asking her to turn around, but if I did, I wasn't being serious." I was only doing what the [casting] agent asked me to do, and for this I was reviled. Helen is a lovely person, she's a natural performer, and I'm a huge fan, but her memory of that moment is a little blurry."

Mirren continued her film career when she appeared with Maggie Smith and Calendar Girls (2003) with Julie Walters. The Clearing (2004), Pride (2004), Raising Helen (2004), and Shadowboxer (2005) were among their more recent appearances. In the film version of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Mirren appeared on "Deep Thought." Elizabeth I of Elizabeth II (2005), Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), and Charlotte in The Madness of King George (1994) have all portrayed three British queens in various films and television series during her career: She is the only actress to have played both Queens Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth on film.

Mirren's role as The Queen attracted numerous acting accolades, including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award, among other things. During her acceptance address to the Academy Award ceremony, she lauded and congratulated Elizabeth II, and said she had defended her name and weathered many storms during her reign. Mirren appeared in supporting roles in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Inkheart, State of Play, and The Last Station, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

Joel Hershman's Greenfingers (2000), a comedy based on the true story of the prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison who has received gardening awards, was Mirren's first film of the 2000s. In the film, Mirren portrayed a dedicated plantswoman who leads a team of prison gardeners, led by Clive Owen, to victory at a prestigious flower show. The project received lukewarm feedback, which claimed that it added "nothing new" to the British feel-good film market, which had already saturated.

She began working on Sean Penn's third directorial effort, where she played a child psychologist. The ensemble film, which was a critical hit at the box office, was flopped at the box office. She appeared in the American-Icelandic satirical drama No Such Thing opposite Sarah Polley earlier this year. Mirren, directed by Hal Hartley, portrayed a soulless television producer in the film, which is aimed at young audiences. Critics had largely dismissed it.

Gosford Park, Robert Altman's all-star ensemble mystery film, was her best critical and commercial success when it was released in 2001. The tale follows a group of wealthy Britons and an American as a result of an unexpected shooting weekend at an English country house, which culminated in an unexpected death. Agatha Christie's whodunit style is a tribute to writer Agatha Christie's whodunit style. Mirren's portrayal of the sternly dedicated head servant Mrs. Wilson earned multiple awards and accolades, including two Academy Award nominations and the first Screen Actor Guild Award for Mirren's portrayal of the sternly dedicated head servant Mrs. Wilson. Last Orders, Fred Schepisi's dramedy film Last Orders starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins was Mirren's last film of the year.

Mirren appeared in Nigel Cole's comedy Calendar Girls in 2003, inspired by a group of Yorkshire women who compiled a nude calendar to raise funds for Leukaemia Research under the Women's Institutes' auspices. Mirren was initially reluctant to participate in the project, dismissing it as another tumultuous British picture, but when she learned of co-star Julie Walters' casting, she reconsidered her decision. Critics generally approved the film, and it took in $96 million worldwide. In addition, Mirren's picture received Satellite, Golden Globe, and European Film Award nominations. Anne Bancroft's second film of the year was The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone based on the 1950 book of the same name by Tennessee Williams.

Mirren appeared in five films in 2010. Sally Conforte, one half of a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in the United States, was portrayed by her husband Taylor Hackford in Love Ranch, Nevada. In Julie Taymor's The Tempest, Mirren starred in the principal role of Proposa, the Duchess of Milan. This was based on Shakespeare's play of the same name; Taymor changed the original character's gender to portray Mirren as her lead. Though the actress received critical praise for her portrayal, critics generally dismissed the film as a whole.

In Rowan Joffé's Brighton Rock, a crime film loosely based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel, Mirren played a brave tea-shop owner who struggles to save one of her teenage employees from marrying a teenage murderer. In September 2010, the film noir premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it received mixed feedback. Robert Schwentke's ensemble action comedy Red, based on Warren Ellis' graphic novel, portrayed Victoria, an ex-MI6 assassin, was Mirren's highest critical and commercial success of the year. Mirren was initially reluctant to sign on due to the film's graphic violence, but she changed her mind after finding out about Bruce Willis' presence. It earned $186.5 million worldwide, despite being greeted with encouraging feedback. In 2010, the actress appeared in Zack Snyder's computer-animated fantasy film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, voicing Nyra, a leader of a group of owls. On an $80 million budget, the film earned $140.1 million.

Mirren's new film was Arthur, a remake of the 1981 film of the same name starring Russell Brand in the lead role. Arthur's generally critical reviewers, who called it a "irriting, unnecessary remake" of the film. Mirren spent her time in Israel in 2009 to film some of the film's scenes in preparation for her role as a retired Israeli Mossad agent in the film The Debt. The film is a remake of a 2007 Israeli film of the same name.

Mirren appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the 2012 biopic Hitchcock, directed by Sacha Gervasi and based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. The film explores the pair's friendship during the production of Psycho, a controversial horror film that became one of the filmmaker's most influential and influential films in his career. It was a modest arthouse's success, and critics reacted skepticism with "tonal inconsistency and a lack of truly reflective reflection." Mirren was widely praised, but Roger Ebert said the film was largely dependent on her appearance, which he found to be "warm and effective." István Szabó's second film of the year was The Door, a claustrophobic drama film based on the Hungarian novel of the same name. The adaptation, which takes place in 1960s Hungary, focuses on the abrasive power that a mysterious housekeeper wields against her employer and a nimble novelist. Mirren characterized the role as "difficult to play" and described it as "one of the hardest things [she has] ever done."

Mirren replaced Bette Midler in David Mamet's biographical television film Phil Spector about the American musician last year. Spector and his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, played by Mirren in the first of his two murder convictions for the murder of Lana Clarkson in his California mansion in 2003, is the subject of the HBO film. Spector received mixed to encouraging feedback from critics, particularly Mirren and co-star Al Pacino, and was nominated for eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award at the 20th awards ceremony. Clarkson's family and friends, who said that the suicide defense deserved more recognition than it deserved, as well as Spector's wife, who said Spector was depicted as a "foul-mouthed megalomaniac" and a "minotaur." Mirren portrayed Dean Abigail Hardscrabble in Pixar's computer-animated comedy film Monsters University, which earned $743 million over its estimated budget of $200 million, and reprised her role in the sequel film Red 2. Film critics called the action comedy a "lackadaisical sequel," but it was still a huge commercial success, with over $140 million worldwide.

The Hundred-Foot Journey, Mirren's only film of 2014, starred Indian actor Om Puri. The film, directed by Lasse Hallström and produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, is based on Richard C. Morais' 2010 book "the feud" between two rival restaurants in a French town. Mirren's role as a French actress earned mainly favorable feedback for her portrayal of a snobby restaurateur, a role she accepted as she was determined to play a French actor. The film received her second Golden Globe Award and a modest commercial success, grossing $88.9 million worldwide.

Mirren reunited with her old assistant Simon Curtis on Woman in Gold in 2015, co-starring Ryan Reynolds. The film was based on Maria Altmann's true story and she and her young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, who fought the Austrian government to be reunited with Gustav Klimt's painting of her aunt, the popular Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Critics were divided on the film, but Mirren and Reynold's performances were lauded. Woman in Gold, a commercial success, became one of the year's best-grossing specialty films. Mirren appeared in Gavin Hood's thrilling Eye in the Sky (2015), in which she appeared as a military intelligence officer who leads a clandestine drone mission to capture a militant group in Nairobi, Kenya. Jay Roach's biographical drama Trumbo, co-starring Bryan Cranston and Diane Lane, was Mirren's last film of the year. In the film, Hedda Hopper, the well-known actress and gossip columnist, received generally critical feedback and was rewarded with her 14th Golden Globe nomination.

Collateral Beauty, directed by David Frankel, was Mirren's only film of the year. Will Smith, Keira Knightley, and Kate Winslet co-stars in the ensemble drama about a man who copes with his daughter's death by writing letters about time, death, and love. Critics generally dismissed the film, who described it as "well-meaning but fundamentally flawed." Mirren narrated Cries from Syria, a documentary film about the Syrian Civil War directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, in 2017. She made an uncredited cameo appearance in F. Gary Gray's The Fate of the Furious, her eighth instalment in The Fast and Furious franchise, playing Magdalene, Owen's mother and Deckard Shaw. Mirren played a larger part in director Paolo Virz's English-language debut The Leisure Seeker, based on the 2009 novel of the same name. On set, she was reunited with Donald Sutherland (1990), depicting a terminally ill couple who had to leave their retirement home and take one last cross-country journey in a retrovan. Mirren was given her 15th Golden Globe nomination at the 75th awards ceremony.

In the supernatural horror film Winchester, directed by the Spierig Brothers, Mirren portrayed heiress Sarah Winchester in 2018. Mother Ginger appeared in Disney's version of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston. In 2019, she appeared in the French crime thriller film Anna, directed and written by Luc Besson, and co-starred in the Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. In March 2021, she was cast as Hespera in the upcoming superhero film Shazam! The Fury of the Gods is on full throttle.

In a biopic titled Golda, Mirren is expected to portray Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1969-1974. The film was in production as of April 2021.

Television career

Mirren is best known for her role as detective Jane Tennison in the widely regarded Prime Suspect, a multi award-winning television drama series that was known for its high quality and success. Tennison's portrayal of Tennison earned three straight British Academy Television Awards for her work between 1992 and 1994, making her one of four actresses to have won three consecutive BAFTA TV Awards for a role alongside Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, and Michael Gambon). Primarily due to Prime Minister Suspect's 2005 ITV poll of the 50 Greatest Stars voted by the British public in 2006, Mirren came 29th in fourth place.

Mirren's other television appearances include Cousin Bette (1971); As You Like It (1979); The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999), where her appearance earned her an Emmy; and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, and Malcolm McDowell appeared in a Harold Pinter production as part of the Laurence Olivier Presents collection in 1976. In 2005, she appeared in the television series Elizabeth I, which was also received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role as Queen Elizabeth I. Mirren was given an Emmy Award for her work in Prime Suspect on September 16, 2007. Mirren hosted Saturday Night Live on April 9, 2011.

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