26 July 80th anniversary of the “Star of theatre,” film and television, the famous British actress Dame Helen Mirren.
For her 60-year career, she has played in dozens of shows and TV series. Mirren won simultaneous American and British triple crowns – an Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award in the United States and Bafta from the film and television roles and Laurence Olivier in Britain.
In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II – who won an Oscar for her role as Mariren – gave her the title of Women of the Order of the British Empire.
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Mirren’s childhood and the beginning of her theatre career
. The future actress was born on 26 July 1945 in London, in the family of Vasil -Mirov and Kathleen Rogers. Her father was a descendant of a Russian aristocrat, who found herself in herself in ” Britannia “. Working Class. Thus, the whole family bathed in a Friday inspired production of Hamlet lovers. Barham/Mirrorpix/Getty Images
Helen acted in school plays, but her parents didn’t support her daughter’s pursuit of acting because, in their opinion, it didn’t provide financial stability. So she went to college to study with a teacher.
In 1965, when she was 20 years old, she played Cleopatra in the play Anthony and Cleopatra, which the New York Times put on at the Old Vicoron at the London theatre
“That was the beginning of my career,” Mirren later said. Sitey/Mirrorpix/Getty Images
. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), where she played several colourful roles, including Triggedy Castles, 1966, 1966. But Lady Macbeth, in Trevor Nunn’s Macbeth, 1974.
. Actress learnt later, she deeply despised . Bradshaw/Mirrorpix/Getty Images
At the same time, the actress was never shamed for her sexuality.
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Helen Mirren began shooting for Helen Mirren in the late 1960s – she acted in films such as Herostratus (1967),” Age of Consent “(1969) and” Oh Lucky Man “(1973). Among her early works was the role of Caesonia in hali -in”.