Helen in her Prime - April 04
Helen Mirren is to return to her role in Prime Suspect after 7 years away from the part.

Mirren will return to our screens as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness. This edition of the crime drama will be even darker than before and Mirren says that seven years was long enough to wait to take on the role again "every year they said, ’Would you like to do it?’ I decided seven years is long enough.

But still, I didn’t want a new film to appear to be an afterthought, as if we were just cashing in."

Helen wants to be Martha - April 04
Helen Mirren has told press she wants to play Martha Stewart if the opportunity arises.

Stewart was convicted last month of lying about a stock sale and the idea came up in discussions about Mirren’s portrayal of Lady MacBeth. Hardly a fair comparison and even the Prime Suspect star said ’I think of her as being more like Rosalind in As You Like It. kind of wonderful and kind of dificult’. Apparently Mirren is drawn to Stewart’s ’amazing energy’.

Dame Helen! - 08/12/03
Helen Mirren has been made a dame and she thinks Buckingham Palace is ’the greatest theatre I have ever been in’.

She received her honour from Prince Charles and said ’It was just lovely. I just felt my mouth go ever so slightly dry. I just thought ’don’t be so silly’

Watching her at the ceremony was her husband Taylor Hackford, her sister Kate Mirren and her neice Natalie Fitzgerald.

Raising Helen - 04/02/03
Docklands lady Helen Mirren is set to star in a supportive role to Kate Hudson in a new Hollywood film called - funnily enough ’Raising Helen’.

However this slightly misleading title has nothing to do with our Helen - the film is based on Kate’s character having to suddenly cope with raising three small children after the death of her sister. Our Helen’s role will be as Kate’s boss. in the film that is naturally!

Helen rewarded - 11/03/02
It’s all go for Helen Mirren at the moment. She has won the best supporting actress 2002 Screen Actors’ Guild Award for her part below the stairs in Gosford Park, beating competition from Dame Judi Dench and eight-year-old Dakota Fanning - who starred in I Am Sam - and the youngest SAG nominee to date.

DCI Tennyson is back - 14/02/02
Helen Mirren has confirmed that award winning Prime Suspect will be returning to ITV. Producers have chosen a writer to pen a new series and filming will begin later this year. The actress plays DCI Jane Tennyson in the crime thriller and revealed last month that she was in talks to revive her role after taking a break.

Another Oscar nomination for Helen - 13/02/02
Helen Mirren has received another Oscar nomaination. Her role as a coolly efficient housekeeper in Robert Altman’s acclaimed "Gosford Park" has lead to the Academy nominating her for Best Supporting Actress. The list is packed with British thesps such as Kate Winslet, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Ian McKellan and Jim Broadbent.