Event :Helen Mirren at 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals 

Event :Helen Mirren at 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals 

London, Sep 21 - Veteran actress Helen Mirren says the recent London riots were "terrifying". She even compared the looting of shops and setting fire to buildings to "cannibalism".

"It was terrifying. There was a rush of crazed adrenaline and everyone... got caught up in it. We're a funny, complicated country, Britain, there's a streak of savagery and this was like cannibalism, society eating itself in a way," dailystar. co. uk quoted Mirren as saying.

London, Aug 29 - Veteran actor Helen Mirren says she is against young people going under the knife and finds it horrific.

"The only thing I don't like on young people is plastic surgery," Mirren told InStyle magazine.

However, the legendary British actress previously defended the right to have cosmetic surgery, saying she understood why people change their appearance, reports contactmusic. com .

Hollywood veteran actress Helen Mirren, who has passed more than four decades in the industry, feels that she is getting scared of getting older. The 65 year old actress thinks that she does not feel like taking any risk in her career at this age.

We have last seen her in Bruce Wills starrer action flick Red. Mirren thinks that she is gradually becoming less interested in taking risk with her career as she wants the security that comes with steady work.

Helen Mirren is disappointed with Hollywood's practice of casting British actors in negative roles only.

She said in a statement that it's very unfortunate that villain in every movie is always a British. During an event to celebrate the British success in Hollywood, she said that Britons are easy targets to be cast as villains.

It should be noted that from George Sanders as Sher Khan in animation series, The Jungle Book to Peter Cushing's slipped vowels in Star Wars the English accent has become an essential part of Hollywood baddies.

London, Oct 24 : Veteran actress Helen Mirren walked away with the Best Actress gong at the Rome International Film Festival for her movie ‘The Last Station’.

The 64-year-old star has been awarded for the depiction of Leo Tolstoy''s wife in the film directed by Michael Hoffman.

Actress Meryl Streep was also felicitated with a career achievement award, reports the Telegraph.

Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group named ‘Brotherhood’ was declared the best movie.

London, Aug 7 : When Brit actress Helen Mirren's husband, Taylor Hackford, first saw her dressed up as British monarch Queen Elizabeth II in a movie role, he was so shocked that he burst out laughing.

Mirren, 64, had even won an Oscar for her portrayal of the royal in 2006 movie `The Queen', but her husband had never seen her in the costume that gave her the monarch's looks until he watched the film's premiere.

London, July 28 : Veteran actress Helen Mirren's director husband Taylor Hackford has been appointed as the president of the Directors Guild of America.

The Oscar winning director has stepped into the shoes of Michael Apted to represent the union for film and TV directors across the U. S. after being voted by his fellow members at the Hollywood headquarters on July 25, reports the Daily Star.

London, July 28 : Dame Helen Mirren has confessed she and her husband have "horrendous" rows when they have a reunion after being months apart.

The veteran actress, who has been happily married to acclaimed director Taylor Hackford for 12 years, said coming together again makes the arguments worthwhile.

"We spend months apart and I think that helps," The Daily Express quoted her as saying.

Melbourne, November 5: Dame Helen Mirren has revealed that her husband, Taylor Hackford, forced her to spend a night in a brothel, insisting that she thoroughly research her role.

Hackford himself is the director of the film that casts the ‘Queen’ actress in the role of the owner of The Mustang Ranch, Nevada''s first legalised brothel.

Mirren has revealed that her husband was insistent that she deeply understand her role.

"Taylor grabbed me kicking and screaming to the brothel. He said, ''You''ve got to do this! You're going whether you like it or not," news. com. au quoted her as telling Britain''s The Times newspaper. (ANI)

Berlin - English actress Helen Mirren, 62, is returning to her Russian roots, playing the wife of classic Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in a movie, The Last Station, now shooting in Germany.

"When I was trying on the costumes, I felt like my Russian great-aunt," quipped Dame Helen, who was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov.

She grew up in London and her father, son of a Russian nobleman, later changed the family name to Mirren.

Though the film is set in Russia, the German producers are doing much of the shooting at similar looking locations in Saxony Anhalt, a provincial region in eastern Germany.

London, Sep 18: Dame Helen Mirren’s lucky charm – her "stripper's shoes" – has paid off by getting her an Emmy for the second consecutive year.

The British actress, who won the award last year as well, scooped an Emmy for the best actress in a TV miniseries or movie for ‘Prime Suspect: The Final Act’, and in the same pair of shoes.

The actress bought the Perspex six-inch high stilettos in frenzy hours before last year's ceremony after realising that she had forgotten her high heels.