Helen Mirren actors to achieve the “Triple Crown of Acting”, joining the ranks of legends including Ingrid Bergman‚ Dame Maggie Smith, and Al Pacino. In 1998, Mirren played Cleopatra to Alan Rickman's Antony in "Antony and Cleopatra" at the National Theatre. The production received poor reviews; "The Guardian" called it "plodding spectacle rarely informed by powerful passion", while "The Daily Telegraph" said "the crucial sexual chemistry on which any great production ultimately depends is fatally absent". In 2000 Nicholas Hytner, who had worked with Mirren on the film version of "The Madness of King George", cast her as Lady Torrance in his
Helen Mirren Clearing", "Pride", "Raising Helen", and "Shadowboxer". Mirren also provided the voice for the supercomputer "Deep Thought" in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". During her career, she has portrayed three British queens in different films and television series: Queen Elizabeth I in the television series "Elizabeth I" (2005), Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" (2006), and Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, in "The Madness of King George" (1994). She is the only actor ever to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth on the screen. Mirren's title role of "The Queen" earned her