Helen Mirren to receive Golden Globe lifetime achievement award

Helen Mirren, the British actor who is already the winner of awards including an Oscar, four Baftas, three Golden Globes, five Emmys and a Tony is to add another to the shelf: the Cecil B DeMille Golden Globe for lifetime achievement. Mirren, 80, who was given a damehood in 2003 and made a Bafta fellow in 2014, will pick up the award in a ceremony on 8 January, three days before the main Golden Globes take place, as part of an event billed by the Globes as the “Golden Eve”. This will also include the presentation of the Globes’ Carol Burnett award for TV work, the recipient of which has yet to be announced. Last year’s winners were Viola Davis and Ted Danson. “Helen Mirren is a force of nature, and her career is nothing short of extraordinary,” said Helen Hoehne, president of the Golden Globes. “Her transcendent performances and commitment to her craft continue to inspire generations of artists and audiences alike. It is a profound honour to present her with the Cecil B DeMille award.” Mirren rose to fame in the 1970s with key roles on stage in the West End of London and with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in films such as O Lucky Man!, Caligula and The Long Good Friday. In the 1990s, her starring role in detective drama Prime Suspect broadened her fanbase further. Other key films include Excalibur, The Madness of King George, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Gosford Park and Calendar Girls. She won an Oscar for her role as Elizabeth II in 2006 film The Queen, a part she returned to in 2013 in The Audience, Peter Morgan’s play about the meetings between the queen and prime minister Margaret Thatcher and for which Mirren won a Tony in 2015. Later-career movies include Hitchcock, The Last Station, Woman in Gold, The Debt, Golda and Barbie, which she narrated. Mirren’s turn in the Netflix adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club has also been praised and awards buzz is building around her performance as a dying matriarch in Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, Goodbye June. Next year, Mirren will be seen as Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn’s drama, Switzerland. Golden Globe nominations will be announced on 8 December, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners expected to feature heavily.