Dame Helen Mirren To Be Honored With Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Award.
The acclaimed British actress Dame Helen, already holder of an Oscar statuette, several BAFTA honors, Golden Globe wins, five Emmys, and a Tony, will soon earn an additional esteemed prize to her shelf: the DeMille Globes' lifetime achievement award.
Ceremony Details
The actress, octogenarian, previously made a dame back in 2003 and made a Bafta fellow in 2014, will pick up the accolade in a ceremony January 8, just prior to the primary Globes ceremony take place, as part of an event billed by the organization as the “Golden Eve”.
This will also include the awarding of the Globes’ Carol Burnett honor for television achievement, the honoree for which remains unannounced. The prior year’s honorees featured Viola Davis along with Ted Danson.
“Helen Mirren is an unstoppable talent, with a career is truly extraordinary,” said the organization’s president, president of the Golden Globes. “Her transcendent performances and dedication to acting persistently influence generations of artists and audiences alike. It is a profound honour to award her this lifetime achievement honor.”
Notable Roles
Helen Mirren gained prominence back in the 70s through significant parts in theater in London’s theater district and with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in films like O Lucky Man!, Caligula & The Long Good Friday.
In the 1990s, her lead performance in detective drama Prime Suspect expanded her audience further. Additional notable movies include Excalibur, The Madness of King George, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Gosford Park and Calendar Girls.
She won an Oscar for her portrayal as Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie The Queen, a character she reprised during 2013 within The Audience, Peter Morgan’s play about the meetings between the queen and premier the former PM, a performance for which she received a Tony Award in 2015.
Recent and Upcoming Projects
- Later-career movies include Hitchcock, The Last Station, Woman in Gold, The Debt, Golda & Barbie, for which she provided narration.
- Mirren’s turn in the streaming adaptation for The Thursday Murder Club has received positive reviews and awards buzz is increasing about her portrayal as a dying matriarch in Winslet’s directorial debut, Goodbye June.
- Next year, she will appear in the role of Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn’s drama, Switzerland.
Golden Globe nominations will be announced on 8 December, with Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the movie from Chloé Zhao Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners likely to receive multiple nominations.
