The acclaimed UK star Mirren, previously holder of an Oscar statuette, several BAFTA honors, Globes trophies, five Emmys, along with a Tony Award, is poised to add another esteemed prize to her collection: the Cecil B. DeMille Globes' lifetime achievement award.
Honors Presentation
Dame Helen, octogenarian, formerly honored as a dame in 2003 and named a BAFTA fellow in the year 2014, will receive the accolade in a ceremony on 8 January, shortly before the Golden Globes main event occur, within an event billed by the organization as the Golden Eve event.
Also part of the event will be the presentation of the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett prize for small-screen contributions, the honoree for which has yet to be announced. The prior year’s honorees featured Viola Davis and Ted Danson.
“Helen Mirren is a force of nature, and her career is absolutely remarkable,” remarked the organization’s president, the Globes’ leader. “Her captivating roles and devotion to her art constantly motivate numerous actors and viewers as well. It is a profound honour to award her the DeMille prize.”
Career Highlights
Mirren gained prominence in the 1970s with key roles in stage productions in the West End of London and with the RSC and in films such as O Lucky Man!, Caligula and The Long Good Friday.
Back in the 90s, her lead performance in the crime series Prime Suspect broadened her fanbase significantly. Additional notable movies feature Excalibur, The Madness of King George, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Gosford Park and Calendar Girls.
She earned an Academy Award for her role as the Queen in the cinematic work The Queen, a part she returned to back in 2013 within The Audience, the stage production by Peter Morgan regarding the encounters involving the monarch and prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and for which Mirren won a Tony back in 2015.
Recent and Upcoming Projects
- Subsequent cinematic works feature Hitchcock, The Last Station, Woman in Gold, The Debt, Golda and Barbie, for which she provided narration.
- Her role in the streaming adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club has also been praised with award talk is increasing about her portrayal as a terminally ill matriarch in the film by Kate Winslet first directing effort, Goodbye June.
- Next year, she will appear in the role of Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn’s drama, Switzerland.
Globes nominations will be announced December 8, with the film by Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another, the movie from Chloé Zhao Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners likely to receive multiple nominations.
