BEHIND THE FICTION : HELEN MIRREN


The evil-spirits of the haunted Winchester Estate may have sent an iced-chill up Sarah Winchesters'- played by Helen Mirren- spine, frightening her ultimately however on Behind The Fiction this week  HybridMovies aims to thaw out all of that ice as we unmask Dame Helen Lydia Mirren behind the fiction of Hollywood?

Helen Mirren on the set of Winchester movie

 Dame Helen Lydia Mirren is a British actress whose date of birth reads July 26th, 1945. Helen who was originally named Ilyena Mironoff, having been born to a Russian family from Kuryanovo in England, is the second of three kids born to a Taxi-driver turned civil-servant father and a mother simply referred to as a working class lady. She grew up in Essex and is married to Taylor Hackford.
Helen bears the prefix 'Dame' before her name as a honorific title from the British empire for her services to drama. 

"She's an illustrious actress with major honours that includes: Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Tony Awards to her credit."


Journey into the movies

Helen Mirren is an actress steeped in the rigours of acting, a little unlike what entails presently, having earned her stripes step by step from successful auditions at the theatres to the step-up at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Broadway. She has her presence registered in movies such as The Queen (2006), where she earned an Oscar for portraying the Queen Elizabeth II, Excalibur (1981), Gosford Park (2001), The Madness of King George (1994), Collateral Beauty (2016), Leisure Seeker (2017), The Fate of the Furious (2017) ,where she plays Magdalene Shaw, and  most recently Winchester (2018). She's an illustrious actress with major honours that read out like thus: Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Tony Awards to her credit. She's one of a select few actresses that have achieved the triple crowns(Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Awards) of acting and she has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.


"No. Absolutely not. I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because i have had freedom"



Winchester : Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke

Plot : MAZE RUNNER - THE DEATH CURE

        Did You Know

  • Helen Mirren has no regrets about not having children:"No. Absolutely not. I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well you know, because I have had freedom".
  • Despite being Russian by origin, she does not speak Russian but is fluent in French..
  • Her favourite curse word is Burger.


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