Helen Mirren is one of the best-loved, most highly respected actresses working today, winning acclaim for her remarkable range and richly layered performances. Although she originally made her mark on the stage, it was her role as DCI Tennison, the gritty lead in Prime Suspect, that really launched her career and won her a string of awards. She went on to a series of challenging roles in films like Caligula, The Comfort of Strangers, The Madness of King George, and Gosford Park, for which she received an Oscar nomination. In this new biography, Sunday Times journalist Ivan Waterman charts her life and her struggle to the top, her relationships with fellow actors, including Liam Neeson, and her marriage to film director Taylor Hackford.
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Ivan Waterman was a journalist for over twenty years, regularly reviewing West End theatre and cinema. He now writes regularly for newspapers such as The Independent and the Sunday Times. He has written a biography on the late drummer from The Who, Keith Moon.
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Beware of inaccuracies,
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This review is from: Helen Mirren: The Biography (Hardcover)
Just thumbing through this I found two errors. Russell Crowedid not win back to back Oscars and Helen did not lose to Susan Sarandon but to Dianne Wiest in 1994. Don't know how many more there are. Too bad the author did this because it makes me suspect that there are other inaccuracies. Dame Helen deserves better. There are a lot of nice photographs included.
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Truly amateurish biography,
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The greatest actress in the world deserves a masterpiece of a biography-and this book is no masterpiece. Aside from many inaccuracies, it's weirdly short on information about it's subject. Entire sections are about other people (eg. the inspriration for Jane Tennison-interesting, but not appropriate in a book about someone else!) The author seems to be trying desperately to fill his book, and too much of it is useless information. A real disappointment. While I collect every movie and item I can get my hands on that has Helen Mirren in it, not even I would buy this book (thankfully I found it at my library). Any pertinent information it contains can be found easily on the internet. I hope a good writer out there is planning on honoring this divine woman with a stellar biography. It's long overdue.
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Nobody, least of all Helen Mirren, ever expected to see her trooping up the aisle with her lover, American film director Taylor Hackford, to become man and wife. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Helen Mirren, Los Angeles, Taylor Hackford, New York, Jane Tennison, West End, White Nights, Lynda La Plante, The Long Good Friday, Gosford Park, Granada Television, Liam Neeson, Savage Messiah, Royal Court, The Madness of King George, East End, Helen Mitten, Laurence Olivier, Princess Margaret, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Thief, Best Actress, Bob Hoskins, Jack Nicholson, James Mason New!
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Nobody, least of all Helen Mirren, ever expected to see her trooping up the aisle with her lover, American film director Taylor Hackford, to become man and wife. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sex queen, prime suspect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Helen Mirren, Los Angeles, Taylor Hackford, New York, Jane Tennison, West End, White Nights, Lynda La Plante, The Long Good Friday, Gosford Park, Granada Television, Liam Neeson, Savage Messiah, Royal Court, The Madness of King George, East End, Helen Mitten, Laurence Olivier, Princess Margaret, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Thief, Best Actress, Bob Hoskins, Jack Nicholson, James Mason New!
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- Prime Suspect by Lynda LaPlante on 22 pages
- Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante on 22 pages
- The Long Good Friday (Methuen Screenplay) by Barrie Keeffe on 5 pages
- Miss Julie (Dover Thrift Editions) by August Strindberg on 4 pages
- Gosford Park (Shooting Scripts) by Julian Fellowes on page 252, page 255, and Back Matter
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