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
Judi Dench her most notable achievements with the RSC was her performance as Lady Macbeth in 1976. Nunn's acclaimed production of "Macbeth" was first staged with a minimalist design at The Other Place theatre in Stratford. Its small round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both Ian McKellen in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices. "If this is not great acting I don't know what is", wrote Michael Billington in "The Guardian". "It will astonish me if the performance is matched by any in this actress's generation", commented J C Trewin in "The Lady".