Helen Mirren’s doubts over new Queen role
Actress Dame Helen Mirren, who plays the Queen in her new play, The Audience, says “the ultimate challenge is that you can never, ever be as good as the original.”
posted on Mar 06, 2013
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Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913-1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909-1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. 
































