HELEN MIRREN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 143629

HELEN MIRREN
She signs a still from the BBC movie version of As You Like It.
Photograph signed: "With Best Wishes/from Helen Mirren". B/w, 8½x6½. Pictured as Rosalind, shown with actress Angharad Rees in the BBC-TV version of Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It (1979). Helen Mirren was born Lydia Mirinoff in London (1945), the daughter of an impoverished Russian émigré aristocrat. Her early stage and film work included a strong grounding in Shakespeare, a tradition typified by this still. Mirren's acting awards are too numerous to name, including plaudits from the British and American Academies of Motion Pictures, the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild, the Cannes and Venice film festivals, and the film critics of many cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. In 2006 alone, she won an Emmy for the title role in the mini-series Elizabeth I and an Oscar for portraying Elizabeth II in The Queen. Just a few of her other notable and award-winning films are Cal (1984), The Madness of King George (1994) and Gosford Park (2001). She starred as detective Jane Tennison in the long-running British TV series Prime Suspect, scoring another Emmy when the series arrived in the US. All-Movie Guide called Mirren "the ultimate thinking man's sex symbol." Horizontal crease in lower half of photograph. Lightly creased. Light contrast of signature. Overall, fine condition.