Helen Mirren Lover" (1989), "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (1999), "Calendar Girls" (2003), "Hitchcock" (2012), "The Hundred-Foot Journey" (2014), "Woman in Gold" (2015), "Trumbo" (2015), and "The Leisure Seeker" (2017). She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films "Red" (2010) and "Red 2" (2013). In 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama. In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014, BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship. She was born Helen Lydia Mironoff at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital
Emma Thompson specialises in playing "a good woman in a frock". She also plays many haughty characters, with a "bracing, nanny-like demeanour", but she is noted for her ability to win the empathy of audiences. Thompson belongs to a group of highly decorated British actresses including Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter who are known for appearing in "heritage films" and typically showing "restraint, rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings, and a sense of irony, which demonstrates the heroine's superior understanding". Projecting a typically "British image", Thompson's often dogmatic and tight-jawed manner has also been compared to Maggie Smith.