Helen Mirren's Blog

It is with sadness that we announce the closing of The Helen Mirren Appreciation Society and this website. The HMAS has had a 13 year history, filled with wonderful experiences, fun meetings with Helen, lively discussion and good friendships. We are shutting our doors, effective later this summer, and by mutual agreement transferring the domains over to Helen's management.

The members of the HMAS continue to support and admire Helen Mirren and will be found wherever Helen appears on screen or ...

[image error] In Painted Lady, Helen played a washed up folk-rock singer named Maggie. Maggie's music is haunting and beautiful. The voice behind Maggie is singer Jenny Darren and she will be performing in the UK on  Saturday June 20th, 2009  7:30 - 10:30 pm.

The location: Barford St Michael Church, South Newington Rd, Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire OX15 0RJ  

Tickets £5 on door or from Barbara 01869 338207 or email susan.addison@virgin.net

Author Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's novel comes to vivid life on the big screen with this family-friendly tale about a bookbinder whose storytelling skills possess the curious power to transport the characters he speaks about into the real world. Brendan Fraser and Helen Mirren star.
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See photos, trailers and get Inkheart movie tickets

Helen was awarded the title at The Inspiration Awards for Women. Among the other nominees were Keira Knightley, Yasmin Le Bon and Agyness Deyn.
 
Helen was quoted by the Telegraph as saying: "I appreciate beauty, and I know I'm not beautiful, so I know it's not to do with that. I appreciate overt gorgeousness, sexiness - like the Marilyn Monroe type of thing - and I know I'm not that, so I don't see it, and I don't get it."

Julie Taymor, award-winning writer-director and best known for creating "The Lion King" on Broadway and directing the Oscar-winning "Frida" and "Across the Universe", is gathering a Oscar-studded cast for her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" that, in a gender-defying twist, will see Helen Mirren reigning over the magical island.

The play centers on Prospero, an exiled duke-turned-sorcerer, Taymor -- who likes to take an experimental approach to her stage and film projects -...

Book Aid International is sponsoring an Online Charity Auction to raise money for their work in sub-Saharan Africa, taking place on eBay between 13 and 27 October.
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Various celebrities from the literary and political world have donated the book they feel changed their lives, and signed and inscribed it.

Helen Mirren has signed a copy of "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky.

Other contributors include Iain Banks, Sir Richard Branson, Cherie Booth, David Cameron, Robbie Coltrane, David Dimbleby...

Daniel Battsek, president of Miramax announced that Helen Mirren will star as an undercover Mossad agent in their new film, The Debt.

A remake of the 2007 Israeli film HaHov, The Debt evolves around three Mossad agents who, 20 years after World War II's end, learn that a Nazi war criminal is still alive and set out to pursue him across Europe.

Helen Mirren will return to the stage next summer to star in a new National Theatre production of Phaedra, directed by NT artistic director Nicholas Hytner. The production, which will co-star Margaret Tyzack, is slated to open in the NT Lyttelton in June 2009.

It will be Mirren’s first stage appearance since winning the Best Actress Oscar for the 2006 film The Queen and her first in six years, having last trod the boards – also at the National – in Howard Davies’ 2003 production of Eugene O’Ne...

A statement, released by Helen's publicist:
"Helen Mirren does not dispute the accuracy of statements attributed to her in an upcoming GQ article," reads a statement released Tuesday by Mirren's publicist, Stan Rosenfield.
"She merely asks that people read the article in its entirety before drawing conclusions. If they do that, she says, their conclusions will likely be far less sweeping and sensational than those drawn by some in the popular press. She does not wish to qualify any of her...

Helen Mirren has enraged a number of people over comments in a recent interview, where her earlier admission about date rape in her youth was revisited. Her remarks have been widely quoted, mis-quoted, commented upon and reacted to during the past few days. A number of people have written to the HMAS, either thinking they were addressing Helen herself or simply to say "how can you people admire such a person who said...". Some people have been sincere, upset and confused, others have been mer...