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Helen Mirren is a sophisticated star of stage and screen who became an international TV star as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the British series Prime Suspect. In the late 1960s and early '70s Mirren built a reputation as a sexy and serious actress in both Shakespearean and experimental theater. In television and films she appeared mostly in dramas, turning in reliable performances but having few box office hits. Mirren's career got hotter as she matured, and in the '80s she turned in memorable performances in The Long Good Friday (1980), Excalibur (1981), The Mosquito Coast (1986, with Harrison Ford and River Phoenix) and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989). She received Oscar nominations for The Madness of King George (1994) and Gosford Park (2001), but it was her turn as an aggressive British cop in the mini-series Prime Suspect (1991) that earned her widespread recognition and, in 1996, an Emmy award.
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Audiences were applauding these developments in the entertainment industry when Helen Mirren was an infant. It's a Wonderful Life, a wonderful Christmas tradition, is introduced this year starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. On Broadway Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun opens starring Ethel Merman. At the top of the music charts this year are Five Minutes More and Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow.
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Synopsis: Helen Mirren returns as police detective Jane Tennison in the fifth cycle of the award-winning television series Prime Suspect. Tennison is transferred to Manchester, where her superiors, unsure of what to do with her, initially put her in the public relations department, explaining police work toRead More
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When Helen Mirren entered the world, these stories made the front page of the nation's newspapers: In the United States, President Truman extends wartime price controls for one more year. Truman ... signs a $3.75 billion loan for Great Britain. In Washington, D.C., a congressional Pearl Harbor inquiry rules that President Franklin Roosevelt is blameless for the bombing. In other news, Bolivian President Villarroel is assassinated in a governmental coup. The Philippine Republic declares its independence from the United States.
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Helen Mirren is probably best known to American television audiences as Inspector Jane Tennison, the complicated and obsessive homicide and vice detective of Prime Suspect. But Mirren, who began her acting career playing Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company productions of the 1960s and 1970s, has appeared in over thirty productions for British, Australian, and American television. These have included film or taped versions of Royal Shakespeare productions, original television plays and dramatic adaptations of literary classics (e.g., the BBC's serialization of Balzac's Cousin Bette, which eventually appeared on American PBS's Masterpiece Theater) produced by Grenada, Thames, and other companies for the BBC, ITV, and Channel Four in Britain, and such American television series as Twilight Zone (the 1980s version) and The Hidden Room (Lifetime cable production).
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Helen Mirren was born in Chiswick to Russian parents, and grew up in Southend-on-Sea. Her starring role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect has made her a household name, but she has ... won acclaim for her theatrical roles and cinematic success. She lives in Los Angeles.
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