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Actress Helen Mirren arrives on the red carpet for the film, "Eye in the Sky," during the 40th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, Sept. 11, 2015.
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Helen Mirren, winner of the award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for "The Audience," poses in the press room during the 2015 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2015, in New York.
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Helen Mirren accepts the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "The Audience" onstage during the 2015 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2015, in New York.
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Helen Mirren holds a "Je Suis Charlie" sign, referring to the recent terror attacks in Paris, as she arrives at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, Jan. 11, 2015.
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Helen Mirren, who won a Best Actress Oscar for 2006's "The Queen," thanked her fans as she accepted her star along the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 3, 2013.
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Helen Mirren attends the premiere for "Hitchcock" at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Nov. 18, 2012, in New York.
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Actress Helen Mirren speaks onstage at the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award honoring Morgan Freeman on June 9, 2011, in Culver City, Calif.
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Actress Helen Mirren poses backstage after receiving the Career Achievement Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif. on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Mirren was up for a Best Actress Oscar in 2010 for her work in "The Last Station."
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British actress Helen Mirren accepts the Oscar for best actress for her work in "The Queen" during the 79th Academy Awards Feb. 25, 2007, in Los Angeles.
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Mirren, born in Chiswick, was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 for r services to the performing arts. She has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, and four Emmys.
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Helen Mirren speaks onstage during the 2006 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour for PBS held at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif., on July 26, 2006.
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Helen Mirren and her husband, director Taylor Hackford, arrive at the gala premiere of "The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil" at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on June 30, 2006. The couple, who have been together since 1986, were married in 1997 in the Scottish Highlands on Hackford's 53rd birthday.
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Helen Mirren and Dennis Hopper pose at Hopper's birthday dinner at Tao Nightclub during the CineVegas film festival in Las Vegas on June 15, 2006. Mirren was born in England to a Russian father and an English mother; her paternal grandfather, a Russian noble and diplomat, was negotiating an arms deal in England and was stranded there, along with his family, after the Russian Revolution.
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Helen Mirren, who is married to American film director Taylor Hackford, wrote a memoir, "
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From left, actor Hugh Dancy, director Taylor Hackford, Helen Mirren and director Tom Hooper arrive at the premiere of HBO Films "Elizabeth I" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on April 18, 2006. In the film, Mirren plays the title character, England's 16th century monarch Queen Elizabeth. The flick details the love exploits of the queen.
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Matt Damon, Helen Mirren and director Paul Greengrass (director of "The Bourne Supremacy") pose in the press room with the award for best film at the Sony Ericsson Empire Film Awards 2005 at Guildhall in London on Mar. 13, 2005. Mirren appeared in her first film, "Age of Consent," in 1969 at the age of 24.
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Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart attend the 2004 Tony Awards Gala after-party at Rockefeller Plaza Skate Rink in New York on June 6, 2004. In 1965, Mirren joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Cressida in "Troilus and Cressida," and Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth."
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Director Robert Altman, Keith Richards and Helen Mirren at the party following the New York premiere of Robert Altman's "Gosford Park" in New York on Dec. 3, 2001.
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Helen Mirren attends the after-party for the screening of "Calendar Girls" at the Hotel Plaza Athenee in New York on Dec. 10, 2003. The movie was based on the true story of a few society women in England who decided to do a quasi-nude calendar to raise money for a cancer center.
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Helen Mirren cradles the Emmy award she won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in "The Passion of Ayn Rand," at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 1999. She has been nominated for eight Emmys and has won two. She won the Oscar in 2007 for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen."
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Helen Mirren and her husband, Taylor Hackford, arrive for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Mirren was nominated for outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or a movie for her work in "Elizabeth I."
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British actress Helen Mirren poses with the Coppa Volpi award for best actress for her movie "The Queen" by director Stephen Frears at the 63rd Venice Film Festival Sept. 9, 2006.
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Helen Mirren curtsies on the red carpet at the New York Film Festival opening night premiere of "The Queen" at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, Sept. 29, 2006, in New York.
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Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford, who is a film director, pose for a portrait at the 2006 DGA Honors at the Directors Guild of America Theater Oct. 12, 2006, in New York.