Helen Mirren

Dame Helen MirrenDBE
Background information
Born	Helen Lydia Mironoff July 26, 1945 (age 78) Chiswick, Middlesex, England, UK
Nationality	English American
Occupation	Actress, voice actress
Years active	1965-present
Family information
Spouse	Taylor Hackford (1997-present)

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE, (née Mironoff), is an English American actress and voice actress, known as the voice of Queen Tuya in the 1998 DreamWorks animated film The Prince of Egypt and Magdalene Shaw in Universal Pictures' The Fast and the Furious film series.

For Disney, she played Chris Harper in the 2003 Touchstone Pictures film Calendar Girls, voiced Deep Thought in the 2005 Touchstone Pictures film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, played Dr. Emily Appleton in the 2007 mystery adventure film National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Prospera in the 2010 Touchstone Pictures/Miramax Films film The Tempest, voiced Dean Hardscrabble in the 2013 Disney/Pixar film Monsters University played Dominique in Raising Helen, Madame Mallory in the 2014 Touchstone Pictures film The Hundred-Foot Journey, Mother Ginger in the 2018 fantasy adventure film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and voiced Snickers in the 2020 fantasy drama film The One and Only Ivan.

Roles

Deep Thought
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Dr. Emily Appleton
(National Treasure: Book of Secrets)

Prospera
(The Tempest)

Dean Hardscrabble
(Monsters University)

Mother Ginger
(The Nutcracker and the Four Realms)

Snickers
(The One and Only Ivan)

Gallery

Helen Mirren behind the scenes of Monsters University.

Helen Mirren attending the 72nd Cannes Film Fest in May 2019.

Trivia

• She was considered for the role of Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries.
• Mirren was originally considered to voice Sarabi in The Lion King, but at the end, the late Madge Sinclair was cast instead.