The Untold Truth Of Helen Mirren
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By Nikki Munoz/April 29, 2021 12:01 am EDT
Helen Mirren can be considered one of the best actors out there right now if not of all time. In her decades-long career, she s taken on roles across every acting medium: film, television and theatre. All the while, she s gained a multitude of nominations in each, including several wins.
Although she had been appearing in movies since the late 60s, Mirren rose to her modern level of prominence as the lead in Prime Suspect, a police procedural drama that ran for 7 seasons. By the time Prime Suspect began airing in 1991, Mirren had begun gathering momentum with other roles, most notably 1995 s The Madness of King George, for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.
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It has been 40 years since the release of The Long Good Friday, a gangster film still revered as one of the best British movies of all time. Shot in London in the late 1970s and starring the late Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, it told the story of an underworld boss trying desperately to stop the IRA from dismantling his empire.
The backdrop for the film was the London Docklands, then mostly undeveloped. With corrupt city planners in his pocket, Hoskins’ character – the pugnacious, barrel-chested Harold Shand – attempts to woo the New York mafia into a partnership to transform the area, selling the idea to them with a speech during a trip up the Thames on his yacht. “Our country is not an island any more,” he snarls. “We’re a leading European state. And I believe this is the decade in which London
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