Did you know that Helen Mirren is the first female actress to be nominated for three acting performances at the Golden Globe Awards in the same year?

Did you know that in 1984, Mirren won Best Actress for her role in the film Cal at the Cannes Film Festival and the 1985 Evening Standard British Film Awards?

Did you know that in 1994 and 2001, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her roles in The Madness of King George and Gosford Park, respectively?

Did you know that in 1995, she had also been awarded for Best Actress once again in Cannes for playing Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George?

Did you know that in 2002, she received the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Gosford Park?

Did you know that Helen Mirren is the first female actress to be nominated for three acting performances at the Golden Globe Awards in the same year?

Did you know that Helen Mirren won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in the movie drama category for Stephen Frears' The Queen in 2006 (along with two nominations in the Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie category for Elizabeth I, and Prime Suspect: Final Act)? The Queen


Did you know that she won both Golden Globes for The Queen and Elizabeth I and also won two SAG awards the same year for the same roles?

Did you know that Helen Mirren is the third actor to win two Golden Globes in the same year, and the first ever to win for both leading roles in TV and film in the same year?



Did you know that Mirren is one of only three actresses (the first was Liza Minnelli in 1973 and then decades later Helen Hunt) to win a

Liza Minnelli

Golden Globe, an Oscar and an Emmy for performances given in the same year?

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