Helen Mirren is Famously Outspoken Woman

When Helen Mirren was invited to appear on the talk show Michael Parkinson in 1975, he must have assumed that this would be one of his least controversial clients. This was his first appearance in prime time and was the dean of celebrity interviews - how could you go wrong?

However, he did - for him - as we saw when the images reappeared in social networks and went viral last August. When Parkinson merrily hinted that her "team" (shaking her head at her breasts) could diminish her

performance, not Mirren smiled and laughed as he hoped he would. Instead, quietly "angry," as she later revealed, the actress - then 30 - closed her sexist questioning with masterly aplomb: "I would like you to explain what you mean by" my team "means that my fingers? Come on, spit! I pressed, before rejecting your questions as "annoying."

A lady, with her latest beauty film guaranteeing hitting halls this December, he is now one of 13 actresses to have ever achieved what is called the triple crown of acting - winning Tony, Emmy and Oscar. Iliana Lydia Petrovna Born Mironova on July 26, 1945, in western London, was one of three children. Vasily His Russian father, a public official, anglicized their name when Helen was nine years old. His mother, Kathleen, was the daughter of a butcher from East London who supplied the meat to Queen Victoria. The family moved to Leigh-on-Sea, when Mirren was two, because their parents felt that the beach was better for raising children.

Mirren is very proud of his roots. -still’s A daughter of Essex he said. The voice around me was well known. I was watching an amateur production of Hamlet at the Palace Theater in Westcliff-on-Sea near when she was 13 years old who did Mirren wanted to act. "It was probably a very low production - certainly remember the stockings were down - but the power of the story and the exotic characters were overwhelming," she recalls in his 2008 autobiography.

A very shy child, remember Mirren, "I've never been the kind of girl who naturally like to do, or rather be looked at. Shame easily came to see me and act, even in my school days; it was more to do with extinction than "Look at me." "But when she joined the National Theater Youth at 18 years after impressing in the school's productions, she won rave reviews to play Cleopatra and was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, 22.

It was his mother who shaped Mirren's feminist beliefs, asking her to have a career (as a teacher) and not

settle too young. Mirren has since said: "She was completely successful that ever wanted to marry seemed like a voluntary prison.

She had serious relationships, her first with actor Kenneth Cranham, who recently appeared in the BBC War and Peace. Mirren attributed to "restore my self-esteem." She said, "The most difficult period in life is one of the twenties. It is a pity because you are your most beautiful and physically are in the best conditions. But it is

actually when you are the most uncertain and full of self-doubt. "In a moment Mirren visited a reassuring palm reader. Is that your prediction?" You will succeed in life, but you will see your greatest success later, after 45 years.

In 1981, then 36, he signed to appear Mirren Excalibur, a fantastic epic inspired by Camelot, and quickly fell in love with co-star her, Liam Neeson, who was seven years younger than her. After shooting wrapped, Neeson moved from his native Belfast to live with Mirren in London. Their relationship lasted four years, floundering because he would have wanted marriage and children and Mirren did not. Eventually, he decided to move to Hollywood to look for larger roles, leaving him behind. Neeson, who said he was heartbroken when he left, almost never speak publicly, but once, when pushed on the subject, he replied: "Oh, Helen ... how beautiful and bright ... It was very special for me. But I cannot say anything else.

Mirren, however, did not remain alone long. Once in Los Angeles, she auditioned for a role in the sleepless nights, an inspirational ballet film to be directed by Taylor Hack ford, whose previous credits included an officer and a gentleman. hack ford was married back then, and that would be a year after him and his wife had separated before and Mirren to become a partner. "Helen is just an excellent partner for me," said hack ford. "She is very intelligent and can use her humor and so on, but he is a serious artist. You gain the clarity and honesty of Helen, which is more real when you live with her.

Mirren, meanwhile, credited his bond - are still together 30 years later - both ways. "Taylor and I are not remotely romantic with each other," he said. Horrified if I give myself a map of Valentine's Day! It does not want our kind of relationship at all - we put cold water on such things.

The turning point of Mirren's fame came in 1991, when he was offered the head of a new police ITV drama written by Lynda La Planet. He called Prime Suspect; centered on a woman named Jane Tennyson called DCI, who was fighting sexism within the force while conducting a murder investigation. Mirren was not looking for a return to television or the UK, but the role was too compelling to turn down.

"Helen was already an accomplished actress and had the maturity to make the character was totally credible," said La Plant Marie Claire. "He has a rare weight and calm, able to convey a multitude of emotions and, until today, I am and will always be grateful for having agreed to portray [Jane tennis on]." The first

series was a success and six more followed, until the last episode aired in 2006), Mirren won an Emmy and a Bafta. She became a global household name at 46 - as her diviner had predicted.

Far from the cameras, Mirren was also worshiped by his candor and his refusal to accept the expectations of others. She was sincere not to want the children ("I do the maternal instinct") and just as effusive to change her mind in marriage when she married Hack ford in 1997 (after 11 years together) wearing a combo jacket And the discreet skirt. "I'm a type of person to dress up in a second hand shop, but open a bottle of champagne," she said.

From time to time, his comments got him into trouble. In 2008, he suggested that rape victims should not wait for their perpetrators to be prosecuted because it was a "difficult" area. She spoke of the experience, revealing in an interview with GQ that she was raped the date "a few times" when he was younger - once she was locked up in a room and forced to have sex against them Will - but never reported incidents. In the subsequent reaction, rape activists said their comments reinforced the idea that women "they were asking." In the same interview, he also admitted that he liked to take cocaine as a young actress before stopping early 80s.

She remains frank, while the insecurities that have struck her twenties seem to be a distant memory. "As I get older. I do not see very well - but I do not give a whore," she said recently. "If I could give my youngest advice, would use the words" fuck off "more often. After the dumping of the scenes in Calendar Girls, The Madness of King George - for which he received his first Oscar nomination in 1994 - and Gosford Park, Mirren was named Dame in 2003, 58 years old. Shortly after it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II would be playing in Stephen Frears the Queen (2006) and it would be the opus Mirren career, which earned her the Oscar for Best Actress in 2007.

A 71 Lady Helen has just finished filming the eighth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and leans to play Keira Knightly in Disney's next count of Nutcracker. Ryan Reynolds, his co-star in Woman in Gold last year, said: "When the cameras turned, it becomes the one that is read is beautiful.