What Is Helen Mirren's Net Worth and Salary?
Dame Helen Mirren DBE is an English actress who has a net worth of $100 million. That is a combined net worth with her husband, director/producer Taylor Hackford. Helen Mirren has done extensive work on stage, screen, and television. She has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, one Tony Award, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
There are a few British actors who are truly royalty. Odds are, you know who they are. This select bunch includes Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Judi Dench, and the always-stylish Helen Mirren. Helen, who was awarded the title of "Dame" at Buckingham Palace in 2003, has enjoyed a very long, very successful career in theater, film, and television. She began acting while in school and was accepted to the National Youth Theatre when she was 18. From there, she went on to successful performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and then began appearing in productions in the West End. She has also starred in multiple Broadway productions. In addition to her theater work, she has starred in such film and television productions as "Caligula," "Excalibur," "White Nights," "Prime Suspect," "The Madness of King George," "Teaching Mrs. Tingle," "The Queen," "RED," "The Debt," and "Glee."
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Early Life
Helen Mirren was born on July 26, 1945, in Hammersmith, London, England. He is the son of a Russian father, Vasily Petrovich Mironoff, and an English mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda. She attended Hamlet Court primary school in Westcliff-on-Sea, where she had the lead role in a school production of "Hansel and Gretel." She went on to attend St. Bernard's High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea and acted in school productions there as well. Mirren then attended a teaching college, the New College of Speech in Drama in London.
Theatre Career
When she was 18 years old, Helen auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. When she was 20, she played Cleopatra in the theatre's production of "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Old Vic, a role that she says launched her career. Her work with the NYT led to Mirren signing with agent Al Parker and also being invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1960s. Between 1966 and 1971, Mirren appeared in nearly a dozen major theater productions. In September 1975, she played the role of a rock star named Maggie in the musical "Teeth 'n' Smiles" at the West End's Royal Court Theater. Later that year, she starred as Nina in another West End show, "The Bed Before Yesterday." In 1981, Helen won acclaim for her performance in the title role of "The Duchess of Malfi," a production of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, which was later transferred to The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. In 1989, she starred with Bob Peck at the Young Vic in London in "Two Way Mirror."
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Mirren made her Broadway debut in 1994 and was nominated for Tony Awards for Best Actress in 1995 for "A Month in the Country" and in 2002 with "Dance of Death" (in which she co-starred with Sir Ian McKellen). Their fraught rehearsal period for the show coincided with the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001. In June 2015, Helen finally won a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role of a Play for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience," which also won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress.
On-Screen Career
Helen Mirren's first film role came in 1969 when she played the muse to a middle-aged artist in "Age of Consent." Her success in film quickly expanded. Some of her earlier films from 1968 to 1989 include "Midsummer Night's Dream," "O' Lucky Man!," "Caligula," "The Long Good Friday," "Excalibur," "White Nights, "The Mosquito Coast," and "When The Whales Came." She was on the British television series "Prime Suspect" as Jane Tennison for seven seasons from 1991 to 2006. In the '90s, Mirren appeared in "The Madness of King George," "Some Mother's Son," "Painted Lady," and "The Princess of Egypt." In 1999, she starred as sadistic history teacher Mrs. Eve Tingle in "Teaching Mrs. Tingle."
Mirren continued her successful film career in 2001's "Gosford Park," as well as "The Clearing," "Pride," and "Raising Helen" in 2004. The following year, she appeared in "Shadowboxer" and provided the voice of supercomputer Deep Thought in the film adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Over the course of her career, she has portrayed three British queens in different films and TV series: The wife of King George III in "The Madness of King George" in 1994, Queen Elizabeth I in the 2005 TV series "Elizabeth I," and Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" in 2006. The latter earned her several Best Actress awards, including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar.
In 2009, Mirren starred with Christopher Plummer in the German biographical drama film "The Last Station," for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she appeared in six films: "Love Ranch," "The Tempest," "Brighton Rock," "RED, "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole," and "The Debt."
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In 2013, Mirren replaced Bette Midler in the biographical television film "Phil Spector." The HBO film focuses on the relationship between record producer/musician Phil Spector and his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, played by Mirren, during his first two murder trials for the 2003 death of Lana Clarkson in his California mansion. The film received largely positive reviews and, was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards, and also scored Helen a Screen Actors Guild Award. Later that year, Mirren voiced a character in "Monsters University." Her only film of 2014 was "The Hundred-Foot Journey."
Mirren has continued her prolific acting career and went on to appear in "Woman in Gold," "Eye in the Sky," Trumbo" (which garnered her a 14th Golden Globe nomination), "Collateral Beauty," "Cries from Syria" (which she narrated), "The Fate of the Furious," "The Leisure Seeker," "Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built," "The Nutcracker," and "Berlin, I Love You."
Personal Life
Mirren famously dated and lived with actor Liam Neeson during the early '80s. They met while working on "Excalibur" together. In 1986, she began dating American director Taylor Hackford, whom she met while working on the set of "White Nights," and the two were married in December 1997 in the Scottish Highlands. Helen has no children and has said in interviews that she has "no maternal instinct whatsoever."
Mirren became a U.S. citizen in 2017 and voted in her first presidential election in 2020.
Real Estate
Hackford and Mirren have homes in Los Angeles, Provence (France), New York City, New Orleans, and Lake Tahoe (Nevada).
In 1986, Taylor bought a 6.6-acre property in the Hollywood Hills. The home was built in 1908 for a silent film actor named Dustin Farnum. In 2014, Taylor and Helen listed this home for rent for the low-low fee of $40,000 per month. In July 2021, they listed this home for sale for $18.5 million or for rent for $45,000 per month.
Their primary home is a property in Lake Tahoe, on the Nevada side.
