Claim: Helen Mirren has performed in different cities.

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren -LRB- née Mironoff ; born 26 July 1945 -RRB- is an English actor . Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 , and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 , after two previous nominations , for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen . She received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in The Audience , in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II , and in 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway performance in the play . The Audience was written by Peter Morgan , who also wrote The Queen . Mirren won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994 and her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series Prime Suspect , which ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006 .   Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film Cal , for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress , 2010 -LRB- 1984 -RRB- , The Cook , the Thief , His Wife & Her Lover -LRB- 1989 -RRB- , The Madness of King George -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , Teaching Mrs. Tingle -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , Gosford Park -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , Calendar Girls -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , The Last Station -LRB- 2009 -RRB- , Hitchcock -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , and The Hundred-Foot Journey -LRB- 2014 -RRB- . She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2 .   In 2003 , she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire -LRB- DBE -RRB- for Services to the Performing Arts . In 2013 , Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , and in 2014 , BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship .