Helen Mirren

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She is considered by many and in many places as the greatest actress alive. And indeed British actress Helen Mirren has had one of the most successful careers in the world since her beginnings in the 1960, in theater, television and cinema. A queen of actresses, she is first and foremost known as an actress of queens, the preferred impersonator of great sovereigns like Elizabeth II in The Queen. But this does not do justice to her uncategorizable and versatile skills and her ability to play everything, often to perfection. And this does overlook the fact that she is one the actresses of today’s cinema that is the most driven by feminism.

For the last sixty years, she has been fighting, through the characters she has chosen to play and her behavior in the backdoors of the entertainment industry as well as in her personal life, against sexism and for women’s rights towards a much-needed gender equality. She has had a battle on her hands, hounded by a reputation of ‘sex-queen’ and a victim of the industry’s machist system. Her vibrant feminism, on and off the screen, that is what Helen Mirren, A Royal Actress wants to show, via a celebratory portrait of the actress’ life.