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The acclaimed British actress Helen Mirren, already holder of an Academy Award, multiple Bafta awards, Golden Globe wins, multiple Emmy accolades, along with a Tony Award, is set to add another esteemed prize to her shelf: the DeMille Globes' lifetime honor.

Ceremony Details

The actress, eighty, previously given a damehood back in 2003 and named a BAFTA fellow in the year 2014, will receive the award in a ceremony on the eighth of January, shortly before the Golden Globes main event occur, within an event billed by the Golden Globes as the Golden Eve event.

Additionally featuring the presentation of the Globes’ Carol Burnett honor for small-screen contributions, the recipient of which is still to be revealed. Previous recipients featured Viola Davis and Ted Danson.

“Mirren stands as an unstoppable talent, and her professional journey is truly extraordinary,” said Helen Hoehne, president of the Golden Globes. “Her brilliant portrayals and dedication to acting persistently influence numerous actors and viewers as well. It is a profound honour to bestow upon her the DeMille prize.”

Professional Journey

The star became well-known during the seventies with key roles in stage productions in the West End of London and through 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 the crime series Prime Suspect increased her popularity even more. Other important 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 performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie The Queen, a role she revisited in 2013 within The Audience, the stage production by Peter Morgan about the meetings between the queen and premier the former PM, and for which she received a Tony Award in 2015.

Latest Works and Future Roles

• Subsequent cinematic works include Hitchcock, The Last Station, Woman in Gold, The Debt, Golda and Barbie, which she narrated.
• Mirren’s turn in the streaming adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club has also been praised and awards buzz is building about her portrayal as a dying matriarch in the film by Kate Winslet first directing effort, Goodbye June.
• Next year, Mirren will be seen in the role of Patricia Highsmith in the drama by Anton Corbijn, Switzerland.

Globes nominations will be announced on 8 December, including Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners expected to feature heavily.