Byline: DANAE BROOKIT WAS a seminal moment in the history of the National Theatre.In the scene leading to the deathbed climax of its premiere of Antony And Cleopatra on Tuesday night, Helen Mirren stripped naked on the lip of the stage of the Olivier in full view of a glamorous audience...
Mirren remains youthfully glam, and so on. It's become part of the myth surrounding 58-year-old Mirren (or Dame Helen, as we must call her, following the Queen's birthday honours this summer) that all women are admiringly jealous of her looks and figure, and that all right-thinking me...
1960sBorn llyena Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 in Chiswick, west London, to a Russian father and English mother, Helen Mirren performed on stage during her Southend school years, but was discouraged from an acting career by her parents. Her first starring role was as Cleopatra in Shakespear...
HELEN Mirren doesn't do demure. Indeed, she's made a very successful career out of playing formidable characters that you wouldn't mess with. From Queens -- including Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II (twice) -- to uncompromising women like Lady Macbeth, Madame Bovary and the ice-cool...