Helen Mirren
- Profession: Actress
- Place/Date of Birth: Chiswick, London, 26 July 2020
Other stars honoured at the ceremony included Ricky Gervais, TV presenter Sharon Osborne and Little Britain star David Walliams.
Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck won the Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness at the annual awards at Old Billingsgate in London.
Ronnie Nathan, from the Variety Club, said: "The Variety Club showbusiness Awards reward the outstanding talent of 2006.
"We cherish our relationship with the entertainment industry.
"This very special event is our opportunity to thank and celebrate some of its most prominent representatives and through them, all the celebrities who do so much work for sick, disabled and disadvantaged children throughout the UK."
The ceremony will be broadcast on Sky Three at 8pm on Sunday November 26.
Helen Mirren is sexy old woman - Nov 6 2006
Dame Helen Mirren has been named the world’s sexiest older woman.
The Prime Suspect star topped a poll which included screen siren Sophia Loren and British beauty Joanna Lumley.
The 61-year-old, who still wows fans on the red carpet, has admitted to dressing more glamorously since playing the Queen in her latest film role.
"After playing the Queen, I’m desperate not to look like the Queen," she said.
"I just want everyone to look at me and go, ’How could she be the Queen? She doesn’t look anything like her!’ It’s a lot of effort."
Second in the list was Hollywood actress and eternal blonde Goldie Hawn.
Charlotte Rampling was third, followed by Susan Sarandon and 80-year-old Avengers star Honor Blackman.
Joanna Lumley was sixth, Vanessa Redgrave seventh and Lauren Hutton eighth.
Sophia Loren was ninth - still looking so fabulous in her 70s that she recently posed for the famous Pirelli calendar.
Blondie star Debbie Harry, now 61, completed the top 10.
The poll was carried out by the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex, with 1,000 people asked to name the most sensational woman over 60.
Top 10
1 Dame Helen Mirren
2 Goldie Hawn
3 Charlotte Rampling
4 Susan Sarandon
5 Honor Blackman
6 Joanna Lumley
7 Vanessa Redgrave
8 Lauren Hutton
9 Sophia Loren
10 Debbie Harry
Majestic Mirren named best actress - Sept 10, 2020
Dame Helen Mirren is the toast of the showbusiness world after being crowned best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her majestic performance in The Queen. The 61-year-old plays the British monarch in the film about the Royal Family’s response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. (see photos of the Venice Film Festival 2006)
And the actress joked that she had glammed up for Saturday night’s awards ceremony because she was desperate not to be mistaken for the real Queen. In the film she bears a great physical likeness to the monarch, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year, and spends much of the time dressed in sensible tweeds and headscarf.
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After a brief attempt to accommodate her parents’ wishes by attending teachers’ training college, Helen quit to join the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and went on to play many of the Bard’s heroines. Helen is now an acclaimed and much-loved and respected actress who is perhaps best known as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, in the award winning British television series Prime Suspect.
She co-starred with Bob Hoskins in the British gangster film "The Long Good Friday" (1980) and was a seductively evil Morgana in John Boorman’s "Excalibur" (1981). She recently teamed up with Hoskins once again in the acclaimed British movie "Last Orders".
Helen won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Best Actress nomination at Cannes for her role in the film "The Madness of King George".
She currently divides her time between America with hubby Director/Producer Taylor Hackford and her home in Wapping.
December 2007