Helen attended the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (15th January 2012). Pictures can now be viewed in the gallery.

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January 17, 2012 by Kirsty • Gallery Updates

On January 10, 2012 Helen attended the National Board of Review Awards Gala in New York. Pictures can now be viewed in the gallery.

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January 14, 2012 by Kirsty • Gallery Updates

Helen attended the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony on December 10, 2011 in Oslo, Norway. On December 11, 2011 Helen hosted the Nobel Peace Prize concert alongside Rosario Dawson. Pictures from both events can now be viewed in the gallery.

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Appearances & Events > 2011 > Nobel Peace Prize – Concert

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December 12, 2011 by Kirsty • Gallery Updates

British actress Helen Mirren hailed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to three women as historic, but said Sunday it’s shameful that so few women have won the award since it was created in 1901.

Mirren said the award marks an “extraordinary moment in the history of women,” but that it is “slightly shameful statistically that only 12 women have won it in a 112 years, when you think how important women historically have always been, specifically in terms of peace.”

She spoke to The Associated Press before the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo on Sunday, which she will host with American actress Rosario Dawson.

The concert will honor this year’s peace prize winners Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s right activist Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. Together, the three have boosted the number of women who have received the peace prize from 12 to 15.

Mirren said this year’s award is a historic moment, “but it is only a step on a journey that women are taking, and hopefully in 20-30 years time we will be looking at a very different scenario in the world.”

She also said she has “witnessed first hand” the struggle of women in Uganda.

“In my personal experience, wherever there was a force for the positive, for creativity, it was almost always led by women and they are doing it with no recognition and under very difficult circumstances,” she said.

Mirren also pointed out that the three winners all come from small grass-root movements.

“It is so important for all of us to realize that these movements start in very, very small ways,” she said, adding that it is important for young women to have role models like this year’s peace prize winners.

Rosario Dawson said she was inspired by the laureates during the ceremony Saturday in Oslo City Hall.

“I love being able to be part of this story and help these voices being as loud as possible because I believe in them and they are our future,” she said.

Dawson said the peace prize helps grow the community of peace makers and “give them a platform that is just as strong as the corrupters’.”

She added that their stories are representations “of who you can become, and it does not care where you start.”

The lineup of artists performing at the concert includes the Grammy Award-winning singer and activist from Benin, Angelique Kidjo, Yemen’s Ahmed Fathi, Liberian-born singer Miatta Fahnbulleh, David Gray, Jill Scott and the World Youth Choir.

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December 11, 2011 by Kirsty • Articles

Helen Mirren is in talks to join the cast of Montecito’s adaptation of the Stephen Rebello non-fiction book “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sacha Gervasi (“Anvil! The Story of Anvil”) is directing.

The project had been set up at Paramount but is now moving to Fox Searchlight.

The 1998 book focuses on Hitchcock, at the height of his influence as a director, who decided to make a horror movie (“Psycho”) that no studio wanted. He had to come up with the financing on his own and was vindicated when the film became a hit and eventually became one of the most influential films of all time.

John McLaughlin (“Black Swan”) wrote the adaptation, which will center on the relationship between Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville.

Anthony Hopkins will play legendary director Alfred Hitchcock while Mirren will play Reville.

Mirren was recently seen in “Arthur” and “The Debt.”

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December 08, 2011 by Kirsty • Articles

DAME Helen Mirren is donating her iconic red bikini to raise money to keep Britain’s elderly warm this winter.

The veteran British actress made a splash when she was photographed in the two-piece while on vacation in 2008 and the pictures were published around the world.

Now The Queen star tells UK morning show Daybreak she has handed over her beloved swimsuit to raise cash for Age UK’s Spread the Warmth campaign, which provides thousands of older people with food packages, blankets and heaters.

“I’m saying farewell to it a little bit regretfully but hopefully it will go to someone who will fill it with as much aplomb as maybe I did,” she says.

“It happens to be one of the best bikinis in the world because it fits! The minute I bought it I loved it because it’s so hard to find a bikini that fits if you’ve got bosoms like I have.

“I would love it to raise money for an organisation that I support called Age UK. I love the idea of this little flimsy summer thing going towards helping old people stay warm and comfortable and toasty in the wintertime. Age UK is a wonderful organisation so I’m hoping that they can raise money with it.”

Fans can enter a prize draw to win the bikini by making a donation to Age UK via the Daybreak website.

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December 07, 2011 by Kirsty • Articles

Helen attended the BAFTA LA Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on 30 November 2011. Pictures from the red carpet and award show can now be viewed in the gallery.

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December 02, 2011 by Kirsty • Gallery Updates