TOM HARDY, PIERCE BROSNAN AND HELEN MIRREN TO LEAD NEW GUY RITCHIE PROJECT FOR PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIME
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New Global Organized Crime Series Centers Around Two Warring Families and the Loyal Fixer Charged with Protecting One of Them at Any Cost
Nov. 27 – Production is currently underway in London on Guy Ritchie’s new global crime series with Tom Hardy (Venom: The Last Dance) set to star alongside Pierce Brosnan (Die Another Day) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) as series regulars.
New Guy Ritchie Project is produced in association with Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios. The series will debut globally in 2025 on Paramount+ and the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME Plan in the U.S.
Hardy will play “Harry Da Souza,” a professional conciliator on behalf of the Harrigan family, while Brosnan will play “Conrad Harrigan,” the head of a very successful Irish crime family based out of London for whom Harry works. Mirren will play “Maeve Harrigan,” Conrad’s wife and the Harrigan family matriarch.
“Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are masters at their craft and we are honored to have them lead the cast for Guy Richie’s new global, original series,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO of SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios. “Guy, Jez Butterworth and Ronan Bennett’s creative prowess, coupled with these gifted actors, is the perfect recipe for what we believe will be the next brand defining series for Showtime on Paramount+”
"The firepower on and off the screen in this new Guy Ritchie crime series will deliver exactly what audiences expect from Paramount + with Showtime: high-caliber acting, high-impact storylines, and high-level production from some of the best in the business," said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President of programming for Paramount+.
New Guy Ritchie Project is an electrifying, new global crime series centered around two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch all corners of the globe and the fiercely loyal “fixer” charged with protecting one of them at all costs.
The series is executive produced by Keith Cox, Nina L. Diaz, David C. Glasser, Guy Ritchie, Jez Butterworth, Ronan Bennett, Kris Thykier, Ivan Atkinson, Tom Hardy, Dean Baker, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari.
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TOM HARDY
As an Academy Award® nominated actor and producer, TOM HARDY CBE has quickly become one of today’s most versatile and sought-after talents, earning widespread acclaim and recognition over the years from critics and audiences alike for his transformative performances and extensive range across a variety of mediums, including film, television, and theatre.
Hardy earned his first Oscar® nomination in 2016, for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance as 19th Century frontiersman ‘John Fitzgerald’ in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s epic drama THE REVENANT, for which he also garnered a Critics’ Choice Award nomination. That same year, Hardy also received a Critics’ Choice Award for his performance as the iconic "Mad" Max Rockatansky in George Miller’s critically acclaimed hit MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, as well as a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor in Brian Helgeland’s crime drama LEGEND, which saw Hardy tackle dual roles as notorious identical twin British gangsters ‘Ronald’ and ‘Reginald Kray.’ As a result of his collective work in 2015, the London Critics’ Circle went on to honor Hardy with their prestigious British Actor of the Year award on behalf of all his performances that year.
In 2018, Hardy received the most significant box office success of his career when he landed the title role in Sony Pictures’ highly anticipated Marvel Comics-based franchise VENOM. Performing in the dual roles of ‘Eddie Brock’ and ‘Venom,’ Hardy helped lead both VENOM (2018) and its sequel VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE (2021) to become worldwide hits with fans and box office numbers alike. Earning over $855 million worldwide, VENOM evolved into an international sensation that currently sits as the eleventh highest-grossing superhero film internationally and nineteenth
highest-grossing superhero film globally of all time. The sequel’s release was equally impressive, with VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE breaking records for films released during the international pandemic as it became the second highest October domestic opening of all time and the third highest-grossing domestic film of 2021.
Hardy most recently starred in VENOM: THE LAST DANCE, leading the third and final installment of the successful blockbuster comic book franchise series alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Juno Temple. Prior to that, he appeared on screen in Jeff Nichols’ THE BIKERIDERS, starring alongside Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Michael Shannon, and Boyd Holbrook in the 1960s period drama inspired by Danny Lyon's book of the same name, which follows the rise of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club. Hardy is currently in production on Guy Ritchie’s highly anticipated global crime series THE ASSOCIATE (w/t) for Paramount+ with Showtime®, starring alongside Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.
Hailing from Great Britain, Hardy was studying at the prestigious Drama Centre London when he was offered his breakout role in HBO’s award-winning World War II miniseries “Band of Brothers,” executive produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. His feature film debut came shortly after when he was cast in Ridley Scott’s war drama BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001), followed by Stuart Baird’s sci-fi adventure STAR TREK: NEMESIS (2002). In 2008, Hardy garnered global attention for his captivating on-screen transformation as a real-life, notoriously violent convict in the title role of
Nicolas Winding Refn’s drama BRONSON, winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor on behalf of his performance. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts further recognized Hardy’s achievements by honoring him with their Rising Star Award in 2011. The actor’s subsequent film credits went on to include lauded roles in Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION (2010), THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012), and DUNKIRK (2017), Gavin O’Connor’s WARRIOR (2011), Tomas Alfredson’s TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011), John Hillcoat’s LAWLESS (2013), Steven Knight’s LOCKE (2014), Michaël R. Roskam’s THE DROP (2014), and Josh Trank’s CAPONE (2020).
On television, Hardy most recently starred as “James Keziah Delaney’ in the 2017 FX and BBC One series “Taboo,” which he also co-created and produced, as well as in a recurring role on Steven Knight’s award-winning BBC series “Peaky Blinders” as the character ‘Alfie Solomons.’ In 2008, Hardy earned a Best Actor BAFTA nomination for his performance in the HBO movie “Stuart: A Life Backwards,” and portrayed ‘Heathcliff’ in the 2009 ITV production of “Wuthering Heights.” His small screen credits also include the telefilms “Oliver Twist,” “A for Andromeda,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gideon’s Daughter,” and “Colditz,” as well as the BBC miniseries “The Virgin Queen.”
On stage, Hardy has starred in numerous plays on the London West End, including Blood and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, winning the ‘Outstanding Newcomer Award’ at the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his work in both productions and a 2004 Olivier Award nomination for the latter. In 2005, Hardy starred in the London premiere of Brett C. Leonard’s Roger and Vanessa. His stage work also includes Rufus Norris’ adaptation of Festen at the Almeida; The Modernists at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre; The Man of Mode at the National Theatre; and the 2010 world premiere of Leonard’s The Long Red Road, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
In addition to performing, Hardy is also the Founder and CEO of UK production company Hardy Son & Baker (HSB), which he formed in 2012 with partner Dean Baker. HSB most recently teamed with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and writer Steven Knight on a six-part adaptation of the coming-of-age classic “Great Expectations,” starring Olivia Coleman, Fionn Whitehead, and Shalom Brune-Franklin. The limited series is the second installment in a planned series of adaptations of Dickens’ novels commissioned by the BBC and FX. The first installment – the three-part special “A Christmas Carol” – was released in December 2019 and also co-produced by HSB and Scott Free Productions. The Dickens projects mark the second collaboration for HSB, Scott Free, and Knight following their work together in 2017 on the acclaimed Emmy®-nominated and BAFTA®-winning drama series “Taboo,” also for BBC One and FX. The company’s feature projects in development include BLOOD ON SNOW, a gripping crime thriller based on Jo Nesbø’s best-selling novel, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, with a screenplay by Nesbø and revisions by Ben Power; the dramatic thriller WILDLANDS, written/directed by Kim Mordant and starring Matthias Schoenaerts as an unruly bomb disposal specialist in one of the world’s most heavily mined countries; ONCE A PILGRIM, a gripping thriller based on the celebrated novel written by ex-SAS soldier James Deegan and in collaboration with Working Title; UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOUR, directed by Angelina Jolie and based on the life of legendary British war photographer Don McCullin; and SHACKLETON, written by BAFTA-winning writer Peter Straughan and centered on the exploits of Ernest Shackleton, the renowned British explorer who lead multiple expeditions to the Antarctic. Television projects in development include the second season of the award-winning drama series “Taboo,” written by Steven Knight and produced for BBC One and FX. Several additional developments are currently in the works across both film and television with an array of singular filmmakers, writers, and artists.
In 2018, Hardy was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition for his services to drama. He currently serves as a Patron for UK-based charity REORG, which uses Brazilian Jiujitsu and CrossFit to support the mental health and physical well-being for veterans, serving military, and first responders. Hardy is also an Ambassador for The King's Trust (formally The Prince’s Trust), the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund (RMCTF), and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Pierce Brosnan is a legendary Irish American actor, film producer, environmentalist, philanthropist, artist and two-time Golden Globe Award nominee known for his rich and extensive career in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes as a producer.
Upcoming, Pierce will star in the sports drama Giant from AGC Studios The Thursday Murder Club based on the Richard Osman novel of the same name, the romantic thriller In The Wind for Passage Pictures and the Western film The Unholy Trinty opposite Samuel L. Jackson.
Pierce recently finished production on Four Letters of Love, based on the Niall Williams bestselling novel of the same name.
Most recently, Pierce starred in director Phillip Noyce’s hitman thriller, Fast Charlie based
on Victor Gischler’s Edgar Award-nominated novel, Gun Monkeys, and in The Last Rifleman which is inspired by a true story of a World War II veteran living in a care home in Northern Ireland who, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, decides to escape the home and embark on a journey to France to pay his final respects.
Pierce hosted the eight-part series “History’s Greatest Heists” for The History Channel. Each episode uncovered the planning and execution of some of the most elaborate real-life heists in history, such as the Gardner Museum art theft and the Antwerp Belgium Diamond Heist.
Pierce starred in in the DC Comics Warner Bros. box office hit film Black Adam, in which he portrays ‘Dr. Fate,’ also known as ‘Kent Nelson,’ a founding member of the Justice Society; in the Amazon film Cinderella with Camila Cabello; in the Hulu / A24 film False Positive alongside Ilana Glazer and Justin Theroux and in the hit Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga alongside Will Ferrell & Rachel McAdams.
He starred for two seasons in the AMC’s series The Son based on the Philipp Meyer novel of the same name about the rise and fall of a Texas oil family.
Audiences also saw Pierce reunite with Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Amanda Seyfried in the Universal film Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, the sequel to the worldwide blockbuster film Mamma Mia!
In 2017, Pierce starred in multiple film projects alongside Jackie Chan in the action thriller, The Foreigner; the mystery thriller Spinning Man with Guy Pearce & Minnie Driver, and Jeff Bridges and Kate Beckinsale in the Marc Webb directed drama, The Only Living Boy In New York.
Previously, Pierce appeared in No Escape alongside Owen Wilson and Lake Bell, Survivor with Milla Jovovich for director James McTeigue, and Some Kind of Beautiful with Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba. He also produced and starred in the espionage thriller The November Man, directed by Roger Donaldson. The film, which premiered at the Deauville Film Festival was based on a series of books by Bill Granger and produced by Irish DreamTime.
Pierce co-starred in A Long Way Down with Aaron Paul, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival; in Love Punch with Emma Thompson, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival; and in Love Is All You Need for Academy Award winning Danish director Susanne Bier. The film premiered to critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Pierce also appeared in a surprise cameo in The World’s End with Simon Pegg and Martin Freeman.
Pierce’s film credits include I Don’t Know How She Does It alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and
Greg Kinnear; Salvation Boulevard with Greg Kinnear, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly; Percy
Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief based upon the best-selling novel by Richard Riordan; Roman Polanski’s critically acclaimed film The Ghost Writer with Ewan McGregor which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and for which Pierce received the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film from the Irish Film and Television Awards; Remember Me with Robert Pattinson; The Greatest with Susan Sarandon and Carey Mulligan which premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival; Married Life in which he starred with Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson and Chris Cooper for director Ira Sachs; the Civil War drama Seraphim Falls in which he starred opposite Liam Neeson; The Matador for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture and a nomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role from the Irish Film & Television Academy; John Boorman’s critically acclaimed film from the novel by John LeCarre, The Tailor of Panama; Sir Richard Attenborough’s Grey Owl; Dante’s Peak; Mars Attacks with Jack Nicholson; The Mirror Has Two Faces alongside Barbra Streisand; Mrs. Doubtfire with Robin Williams; The Lawnmower Man; Bruce Beresford’s Mr. Johnson, and The Out-Laws opposite Adam Devine, Ellen Barkin and Michael Rooker.
In the 1990s, Pierce reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond franchise in the box-office blockbusters Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Pierce’s first three Bond films earned over a billion dollars at the international box-office and Die Another Day garnered nearly half a billion dollars worldwide.
In addition to his work in front of the camera, Pierce has long had a passion for the art of filmmaking. Having achieved international stardom as an actor, Pierce expanded the range of his film work by launching his own production company, Irish DreamTime, in 1996, along with producing partner Beau St. Clair. Irish DreamTime has produced 11 films to date including I.T.; The November Man; Some Kind
of Beautiful; The Greatest; Shattered; The Matador; Laws of Attraction; Evelyn; The Thomas Crown
Affair; The Match; and The Nephew. The company’s first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was a critical and box-office success and one of the best-loved romantic thrillers.
Evelyn, directed by Bruce Beresford, opened to critical acclaim at the Toronto and Chicago Film Festivals and garnered rave reviews.
In November 2016, the European Film Academy presented Pierce with the honorary European Achievement in World Cinema Award. Some of Pierce’s other accolades include the 2015 Forces for Nature Award bestowed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the 2011 Caritas Award from St. John’s Health Center Foundation for Pierce’s extensive community service, and the 2007 Golden Kamera Award for his environmental work. In 2003, Pierce was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology, an Honorary Doctorate from the University College Cork, and an Order of the British Empire bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For over two decades,
Pierce has been an ambassador for His Royal Highness Prince Charles The Prince’s Trust as well as an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland. Pierce also serves as Campaign Chairman for the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
In addition to his stellar film career, Pierce, along with his wife Keely Shaye, have been drawn into a passionate leadership role in numerous environmental issues. Most recently, the two worked together on the documentary film Poisoning Paradise which they co-produced. The film takes audiences on a journey into to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, whose communities are surrounded by experimental test sites for genetically engineered seed corn and pesticides. To date, Poisoning Paradise has screened at dozens of prestigious film festivals across the United States and abroad, including London; Bologna; Los Angeles; San Diego; Mendocino; Napa Valley; Maui; St. Louis, Missouri and
Savannah, Georgia, and Washington D.C. The film has won a dozen awards – many for Best Documentary – and was accepted into the 2018 International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, the Manchester Film Festival in England, and the London International Filmmaker Festival, among others. The film screened in the market at the Cannes Film Festival where it was sold for worldwide distribution with Gravitas Ventures.
Exhibiting another side of his artistic talent, Pierce is an avid painter. The actor, who trained as a commercial artist, has painted numerous landscapes as well as colorful portraits of friends and family. Pierce cites Picasso, Matisse, and Bonnard as influences on his work. Most recently, one of Pierce’s original paintings depicting singer Bob Dylan, was auctioned off for $1.4 million at the 25th annual amfAR Gala Cannes charity event, Cinema Against AIDS.
Prints and an NFT of Pierce’s painting, Earplugs, which he painted at Leavesdon Studios in England in 1995 on the set of his first James Bond movie GoldenEye, was released last year. The painting is in the vein of Roy Lichtenstein – an artist Pierce “greatly admires.”
Pierce was born in County Meath, Ireland and moved to London at age 11. At 20, he enrolled in The Oval House and continued his studies at The Drama Center in London. After graduation, Pierce performed in several West End stage productions including Franco Zeffirelli’s Fulimena and Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign at the York Theater Royal. Pierce relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 and immediately landed the role of private investigator Remington Steele on the popular NBC television series of the same name.
Upcoming, Pierce will debut his first solo art exhibition, So Many Dreams, in Los Angeles on May 13 to run through May 21. Showcasing his artistic journey, the gallery will feature a curated selection of works Pierce has produced since 1987 including approximately 30 large canvases alongside drawings, scripts, sketches, silkscreen and lithograph prints, digital art and documentation of his life as an artist. The exhibition will be accompanied by a short documentary film directed by Thom Zimny and feature an essay on Pierce’s work by LA-based art critic Jonathan Griffin.
HELEN MIRREN
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HELEN MIRREN has won an Oscar®, Emmy, SAG Award, Tony, multiple BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe, as international recognition for her work on stage, screen and television. For her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 of “The Queen,” she received an Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She was also named Best Actress by virtually every critic’s organization from Los Angeles to London. In 2014 she was honored with the BAFTA Fellowship for her outstanding career in film. In 2018 she was honored with the Chaplin Gala career achievement recognition from The Film Society at Lincoln Center. In 2022 Mirren received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
Mirren just finished production on Chris Columbus’s highly anticipated film adaption of the number one bestselling novel “The Thursday Murder Club” and is currently filming the second installment of Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 series alongside Harrison Ford on Paramount+.
This Fall saw her in Lionsgate's “White Bird.” Last year she starred in “Golda,” playing the title
role of Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War, was heard as the narrator of Warner Bros.’ history-making “Barbie,” directed by Greta Gerwig, and seen in Universal’s “Fast X,” and in the Shazam! sequel, “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.”
On television she was recently seen in Taylor Sheridan’s critically acclaimed Yellowstone spin-off
1923. The second and final installment is currently in production. She narrated WHEN NATURE
CALLS with Helen Mirren on ABC and BBC. Other recent TV shows include Amazon’s sci-fi
anthology miniseries Solos, the Netflix comedy special Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine and the
four-part, limited series for HBO/SKY in the title role of Catherine the Great.
In addition to “Barbie,” Mirren’s recent voiceover work includes a special guest episode of Netflix’s Human Resources, and voicing Snickers the Poodle in the Disney film “The One and Only Ivan.” Additionally, she voiced the character of ‘Dean Hardscrabble’ in Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ “Monster’s University.”
Previous works include Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Duke” with Jim Broadbent, Universal’s “F9,”
Warner Bros.’ “The Good Liar” starring with Ian McKellen, Saban Films’ “Berlin, I Love You”,
Lionsgate’s “Anna”, Universal Pictures’ “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw”, Walt Disney
Studios Motion Pictures’ “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” Sony Pictures Classics’ “The
Leisure Seeker,” Bleecker Street Media’s “Eye in the Sky” and “Trumbo,” Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures’ “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Fox Searchlight Pictures’ “Hitchcock,” for which
she was nominated for a SAG Award among others, “RED” and “RED 2,” John Madden-directed
thriller “The Debt,” in which she plays a Mossad agent and Hungarian director Istvan Szabo’s
“The Door.”
Mirren began her career in the role of Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she starred in such productions as “Troilus and Cressida” and “Macbeth.” In 1972, she joined renowned director Peter Brook’s theatre company and toured the world.
Her film career began with Michael Powell’s “Age of Consent,” but her breakthrough film role came in 1980 in John Mackenzie’s “The Long Good Friday.” Over the next 10 years, she starred in a wide range of acclaimed films, including John Boorman’s “Excalibur,” Neil Jordan’s Irish thriller “Cal,” for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Evening Standard Film Award; Peter Weir’s “The Mosquito Coast,” Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” and Charles Sturridge’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread.”
Mirren earned her first Oscar® nomination for her portrayal of Queen Charlotte in Nicholas
Hytner’s “The Madness of King George,” for which she also won Best Actress honors at the 1994
Cannes Film Festival. Her second Oscar® nomination came for her work in Robert Altman’s 2001
film “Gosford Park.” Her performance as the housekeeper also brought her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations, several critics groups’ awards, and dual SAG Awards, one for Best Supporting Actress and a second as part of the winning ensemble cast. Mirren earned both Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for her performance in “The Last Station,” playing Sofya Tolstoy.
Among her other film credits are Terry George’s “Some Mother’s Son,” on which she also served
as associate producer, “Calendar Girls,” The Clearing,” “Shadowboxer,” “State of Play,” “The Tempest” and “Brighton Rock”.
On television, Mirren starred in the award-winning series “Prime Suspect” as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. She had earned an Emmy Award and three BAFTA TV Awards, as well as numerous award nominations, for her role in early installments of the “Prime Suspect” series. She won another Emmy Award and earned a Golden Globe nomination when she reprised the role of Detective Jane Tennison in 2006’s “Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act,” the last installment in the PBS series. Her long list of television credits also includes “Losing Chase,” “The Passion of Ayn Rand,” “Door to Door,” and “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone,” earning Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG Award® nominations and awards. She starred with Al Pacino in the HBO biopic “Phil Spector,” for which she won a SAG Award for her performance and was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Mirren was also honored for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the HBO miniseries “Elizabeth I,” winning an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award®.
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On stage, Mirren reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth II on Broadway in The Audience, a play by Peter Morgan, directed by Stephen Daldry, for which she won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In 2013 she debuted her stage role of Elizabeth II in The Audience in London’s West End, for which she received the Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award, and 2014 WhatsOnStage Award, for Best Actress.
Previously Mirren had worked extensively in the theatre. She received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in “Mourning Becomes Electra” at London’s National Theatre. In 2009, Mirren returned to the National Theatre to star in the title role in “Phèdre,” directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner.
Helen Mirren was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2003.
Originally published: November 30, 2024.
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