TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Helen Mirren.
Email to a friend
Birthdate: July 26, 1945
Helen Mirren
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
1.3534
2
1970s
1.5318
5
1980s
2.4424
13
1990s
2.4388
8
2000s
2.7650
14
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.0009
3.0009
Helen Mirren Movie Rankings
1
3.5221An up-close and personal look at the politics in England following the death of Princess Diana. Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair disagree how the matter should be handled in the press and to the people of England. ...more about Queen
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actress
- British Independent Film Awards - Best Actress
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Actress
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
- Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
- San Francisco Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
- Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actress
- Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $4.95
(14 sellers)
2
3.0893The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlyn. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. ...more about Excalibur
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $4.50
(11 sellers)
3
3.0556Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. ...more about Gosford Park
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- European Film Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Supporting Actress of the Year
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $4.99
(14 sellers)
4
3.0278
A baby is placed in a basket and sent down the river. He is found by the Pharaoh’s wife and raised as royalty, but by birth, he is a slave and will grow-up to be Moses leader of the Hebrews. ...more about Prince of Egypt
DVD from $8.11
(11 sellers)
5
3.0153
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. ...more about Last Orders
Actor Awards
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Supporting Actress of the Year
DVD from $15.99
(2 sellers)
6
2.9970
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. ...more about Madness of King George
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Actress of the Year
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
7
2.9302
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. ...more about 2010
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
8
2.8873
The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. ...more about Pledge
DVD from $5.56
(13 sellers)
9
2.8377
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. ...more about Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.8280
Calendar Girls is about the women of the Rylstone Women's Institute in North Yorkshire. This Women's Group produces a calendar each year based around scenes of the Yorkshire dales. In 1999, one of the ladies husbands became ill with leukemia. ...more about Calendar Girls
Actor Awards
- Empire Awards, UK - Best British Actress
- European Film Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
DVD from $7.02
(10 sellers)
11
2.7258
The story of a parallel emotional struggle between the victim of a kidnapping and the family that is left behind. ...more about Clearing
DVD from $4.11
(12 sellers)
12
2.6006
An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. ...more about Comfort of Strangers
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.5707
An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. ...more about Mosquito Coast
DVD from $6.99
(6 sellers)
14
2.5361
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. ...more about Long Good Friday
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
15
2.4756
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. ...more about Greenfingers
DVD from $17.99
(9 sellers)
16
2.4082
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. ...more about Critical Care
DVD from $17.99
(1 sellers)
17
2.3957
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone. ...more about O Lucky Man!
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.3028
Helen Harris is living the life she's always dreamed of: her career at a top modeling agency is on the rise; she spends her days at fashion shows and her nights at the city's hottest clubs. ...more about Raising Helen
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
19
2.2872
Leanne (Katie Holmes) is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren), and the teacher hates her. ...more about Teaching Mrs. Tingle
DVD from $7.02
(10 sellers)
20
2.2751
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl. ...more about Age of Consent
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2600
While Ben is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, one man stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned in the page. ...more about National Treasure: Book of Secrets
DVD from $17.99
(5 sellers)
23
2.0925
The beauty and delicacy of a flower seem a sharp contrast to the rough exterior of a prison inmate. ...more about Greenfingers
DVD from $15.97
(10 sellers)
25
1.8062
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA. ...more about Cal
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actress
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.5043
Writer-Director Hal Hartley takes a humorous and satirical look at a society concerned only with instant gratification and voyeuristic sensationalism. ...more about No Such Thing
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.4839
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. ...more about Heavenly Pursuits
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.4656
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems. ...more about Pascali's Island
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.3296
An assassin named Rose (Helen Mirren) and her lover Mickey (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) plan one last job for Rose after she learns her own life is to be cut short by cancer in this thriller from director Lee Daniels. ...more about Shadowboxer
DVD from $13.99
(7 sellers)
32
1.2511
Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, where he developed his overwhelming compassion for those less ...more about Bethune: The Making of a Hero
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.2191
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. ...more about Hawk
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.1522
The philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand engaged in an affair with a psychologist 25 years her junior by the name of Nathaniel Branden. Branden built up an institute to spread Rand's ideas, but the two eventually had a falling out. ...more about Passion of Ayn Rand
Actor Awards
- Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
DVD from $7.12
(4 sellers)
35
0.9222
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. ...more about Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
- Not Available on DVD
36
0.6300
A pair of children befriend an accentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the narwhales who sometimes come. ...more about When the Whales Came
- Not Available on DVD
37
A middle aged woman (Alison Steadman) goes to Nottingham to study DH Lawrence, there she meets a young man obsessed with the author. ...more about Coming Through
DVD from $11.71
(6 sellers)
Copyright ©2008 TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. is prohibited.
