The latest news and comment on British actor Helen Mirren
April 2024
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club
Chris Columbus will direct film adaptation of Pointless presenter’s bestselling mystery book about a group of septuagenarian sleuths
February 2024
Helen Mirren says no one remembers which films won the Oscar for best picture. Do you?
‘Do you remember who won best film of the year before last?’ the actor said in an interview, shrugging off Barbie’s Oscar snubs. Challenge accepted, Mirren
October 2023
Golda review – Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM is upstaged by cigarette smoke
Helen Mirren addresses Golda controversy: ‘I told the director that I’m not Jewish’
May 2023
Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks so far – in pictures
There’s no shame in waging war on old age – long live Martha Stewart
Martha Gill
‘An irresistible mix of art and genitals’: Caligula finally comes to Cannes
Fast X review – stupidly entertaining sequel offers more of the same
March 2023
Shazam! Fury of the Gods review – second dose of DC’s impostor-syndrome superhero
Zachary Levi returns as the hapless, self-involved crime-fighter in a zesty sequel that, though funny, doesn’t entirely shatter the superhero-movie template
February 2023
Golda review – lifeless Meir biopic hides Helen Mirren’s talent in a cloud of cigarette smoke
‘For me, she had the Jewish chops to play Golda’: director of Golda Meir film addresses casting Helen Mirren
December 2022
TV review
1923 review: Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren lead intriguing Yellowstone prequel
The latest show in the Taylor Sheridan universe features strong performances from two elder statesmen of the screen
June 2022
Joseph Quinn of Stranger Things: ‘My wig is objectively ridiculous’
The British actor on getting texts from Winona Ryder, researching his character Eddie Munson through the medium of thrash metal and the show’s ‘monster’ final episode
May 2022
Queen’s platinum jubilee begins with equestrian show at Windsor Castle
A Gallop Through History pageant included stars such as Tom Cruise and Helen Mirren as well as the Household Cavalry
February 2022
Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Squid Game, Will Smith and Coda win big
Netflix phenomenon and Apple’s deaf family drama make history at this year’s SAG awards ceremony
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Duke review – Jim Broadbent excels in true tale of art-stealing pensioner
Roger Michell’s final feature film brings good-natured, Ealing-style brio to the 1961 theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Duke review – Jim Broadbent steals show in warm-hearted 60s-set crime caper
Observer New Review Q&A
Jim Broadbent: ‘I like the idea of actors being anti-establishment’
Helen Mirren says questions over playing Golda Meir ‘utterly legitimate’
January 2022
Maureen Lipman: my opinion on casting was not an attack on Helen Mirren
Letters: If the ethnicity or gender of the character drives the role then that ethnicity should be prioritised, writes Maureen Lipman
