Helen Mirren Movies

Helen Mirren

Want to know the best Helen Mirren movies?  How about the worst Helen Mirren movies?  Curious about Helen Mirren box office grosses or which Helen Mirren movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Helen Mirren movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.

Helen Mirren (1945-) is an Oscar® winning British actress.   She has been appearing in movies for the last 50 years….but we first noticed her in 1981’s Excalibur.  Her IMDb page shows over 135 acting credits…with her first credit being in 1967.   This page ranks Helen Mirren movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information.  Uncredited roles, bit parts, television roles and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  This page comes from a request from WoC (Wife of Cogerson)

Helen Mirren Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Helen Mirren Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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Helen Mirren in 1981’s Excalibur

Possibly Interesting Facts About Helen Mirren

1. Helen Lydia Mirren was born in Hammersmith, west London in 1945.

2.  Helen Mirren’s path to movie stardom:  Starred in plays at St. Bernard’s High School, Westcliff-on-Sea, joined National Youth Theatre and eventually the Royal Shakespeare Company.

3. Helen Mirren is the only actress to play both Queen Elizabeth I (in Elizabeth I (2005)) and Queen Elizabeth II.   She won a Oscar® for playing Queen Elizabeth II in 2006′s The Queen.

4.  Helen Mirren’s autobiography is called “In The Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”.   She wrote about her life in a series of chapters based on pictures from her extensive personal collection of photography and memorabilia.

5.  Helen Mirren was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for Services to the Performing Arts.

6. Helen Mirren has been married one time.   She has been married to her White Nights director Taylor Hackford since 1997.  She does not have any children and has said that she has “no maternal instinct whatsoever.”

7.  Helen Mirren lived with Liam Neeson in the early 1980s.  The two met during the filming of 1981’s Excalibur.  Mirren helped Neeson secure his first agent.

8.  Speaking of 1981’s Excalibur,  John Boorman (the director) said he cast her opposite Nicol Williamson in Excalibur, against both of their protests, because he felt their dislike of each other made them perfect as rivals Morgana and Merlin.

9. Helen Mirren has a tattoo that is an American Indian symbol meaning “equal but opposite”.

10. Check out Helen Mirren’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.

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19 thoughts on “Helen Mirren Movies”

  2. HI STEVE

    Thanks for the feedback, background information and quotes.

    Yes she was a naughty young thing in her physical prime and I am sure that back then the likes of Sinatra would have referred to her as a dame in the traditional Hollywood sense [or a “broad”]whereas in recent decades she has been quite at home playing “establishment” figures such as Det Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, Col Powell of US military intelligence and of course Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King Joel

    My brother was fascinated by her when she appeared in Caligula so physically appealing did he find her.

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  3. With an average per movie of approx $44 million in adjusted dollars in the US Helen doesn’t do well overall in Bruce’s stats chart but her acting stats are staggering. IMDB credits her with 123 acting awards and 124 nominations and ranks her No 23 on a list of its perceived 100 greatest actresses of all time, above such Hollywood legends as Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia DeHavilland, Sophia Loren and Grace Kelly. Helen had an English mother but a Russian father [Vasily Petrovich Mironoff -isn’t Maurice Micklewhite a funny name?]. Helen’s net worth is $50 million.

    POSTERS that pleased me most in video entries 40-21 are (1) 2nd one for Nutcracker (2) Tempest (3) Raising Helen (4) Inkheart (5) raunchy 1st one for Age of Consent (6) very raunchy 2nd one for Comfort of Strangers (7)White Nights (8) foreign language one Red 2 (9) Woman of Gold (10) Pascali’s Island.

    POSTERS 1-20 of which the best for me are (1) Last Orders (2) Legend of the Guardians (3) The Cook etc (4) 2 for Fate of the Furious (5) Monster University (6) raunchy one for Cal (7) Trumbo (8) The Madness of King Joel (9) an entire brilliant set for Excalibur (10 ) and State of Play with Russell Crowe. In the quotes you gave me Sir Anthony Hopkins described Crowe as a “bad boy”. Bruce and I had worked that one out long ago!

    STILLS I most enjoyed over entire video (1) opening one of the young, sexy Helen (2) Hitchcock (3) 2 from 2010 (4) Red 1(5) Eye in the Sky (6) Madness of King Joel (7) a ravishing Helen in Excalibur (8) with Malcolm in O Lucky Man (9) 1st one for Long Good Friday and (10) as the woman who made Helen a Dame.

    Yours video is a fine and satisfying photoplay of a very distinct Brit actress which I regard as 98% rated. You and Bruce agree on 3 of Helen’s Top 6 best reviewed movies with Excalibur the one that has you furthest apart [5th in your estimation but ranked 19th by WH]

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    1. Good feedback Bob. Just added Steve’s video to the page….plus my comment on his channel.

      “Nice selection. I have seen 23 of the movies on your video and 32 of the 55 movies on our Helen page. Favorites here include #5 Excalibur…one of my all-time favorites. #8 Eye in the Sky…intense movie. #18 Last Orders….of course…Michael Caine is in the movie. #14 Red….of course ….Bruce Willis is in the movie. though you will not see me list Red 2 as one of my favorites. And #23 Hitchcock….see and Hopkins worked well together. I actually just saw O Lucky Man this weekend….though it has great reviews (4th here)…I did not enjoy that one at all. Voted up and shared. Good job.”

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      1. Hi Bruce, your 23 beats my 16. We have the same number 1 on our charts – The Queen – woohoo, but after that it’s a mixed bag, Excalibur is a favorite of mine too but it’s rated too low on your chart, psst give it a nudge up the ladder when no one is looking. I liked Eye in the Sky but wasn’t aware it was so highly rated until I started on the video. I don’t think I’ve seen O Lucky Man, I should give it a go, I like Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren and Ralph Richardson. Thanks for the vote, share and comment, it is appreciated.

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    2. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and comparison, much appreciated. Happy the posters and stills met with your approval.

      How does that South Pacific song go? “There is nothin’ like a daaaame….” I think we’ve had enough knights and lords on my video channel in the past few weeks (months?), it’s Dame Helen’s turn to hog the spotlight.

      She was a naughty young thing back in the late 60s and 70s, there were topless stills of her from the film Age of Consent, starring James Mason which I couldn’t use on my video. And I’m sure she had a ball starring in Caligula surrounded by naked young men and women.

      The success of the British TV series Prime Suspect during the 1990s raised her profile and Hollywood beckoned.

      Three Helen Mirren films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Madness of King George, O Lucky Man and The Queen. Two scored 9 – Excalibur and The Long Good Friday. 10 more scored 8 out of 10.

      The Queen topped the charts at IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Bruce’s critics chart too.

      Mirren on the Academy Awards – “It’s the creme-de-la-creme of bulls**t.”

      “You can’t ask people: “Did you cast me in this because I won an Oscar?” They’d always deny it: “No! No! We would have had you anyway!” Liars!”

      “Flesh sells. People don’t want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.”

      “We’re all idiots when we’re young. We don’t think we are, but we are. So we should be. I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making ‘Frenzy’ in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him – but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.”

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