Helen Mirren Set to Receive Golden Globe Career Honor.

The distinguished English actor Dame Helen, previously winner of an Academy Award, multiple Bafta awards, Golden Globe wins, multiple Emmy accolades, along with a Tony Award, is poised to add another esteemed prize to her shelf: the DeMille Globes' lifetime achievement award.

Award Event

Dame Helen, octogenarian, previously made a dame in 2003 and named a BAFTA fellow back in 2014, will pick up the award at an event January 8, just prior to the main Golden Globes occur, during a program described by the organization as the Golden Eve event.

Also part of the event will be the presentation of the Globes’ Carol Burnett award for small-screen contributions, the honoree for which is still to be revealed. Previous recipients included Viola Davis along with Ted Danson.

“Dame Helen represents a powerhouse performer, with a career is absolutely extraordinary,” stated the Golden Globes president, Helen Hoehne. “Her transcendent performances and devotion to her art constantly motivate generations of artists and viewers as well. We are deeply honored to present her with this lifetime achievement honor.”

Notable Roles

The star gained prominence back in the 70s with key roles in theater in the West End of London and with the RSC and in films including O Lucky Man!, Caligula & The Long Good Friday.

In the 1990s, her prominent part in the investigative show Prime Suspect broadened her fanbase significantly. Other important films feature Excalibur, The Madness of King George, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Gosford Park and Calendar Girls.

She received an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie The Queen, a character she reprised during 2013 within The Audience, the theatrical work from Peter Morgan regarding the encounters involving the monarch and premier Margaret Thatcher, a performance for which she earned a Tony back in 2015.

Recent and Upcoming Projects

• Later-career movies comprise Hitchcock, The Last Station, Woman in Gold, The Debt, Golda and Barbie, where she served as narrator.
• Her performance in the streaming adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club has garnered acclaim with award talk is increasing around her performance as a terminally ill matriarch in the film by Kate Winslet directorial debut, Goodbye June.
• In the coming year, she will appear portraying Patricia Highsmith in Corbijn’s dramatic film, Switzerland.

Golden Globe nods will be announced on 8 December, featuring Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet along with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners likely to receive multiple nominations.