Age: 80
female
Dame Helen Mirren (/ˈmɪrən/; born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov; July 26, 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She received an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience, three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, including two for Prime Suspect. Excelling on stage with the National Youth Theatre, Mirren's performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965 saw her invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company before she made her West End stage debut in 1975. Since then, Mirren has also had success in television and film. Aside from her Academy Award-winning performance, Mirren's other Oscar-nominated performances were for The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009). For her role on Prime Suspect, which ran from 1991 to 2006, she won three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress (1992, 1993 and 1994), a joint-record of consecutive wins shared with Julie Walters, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Playing Queen Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I (2005), and Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (2006), she is the only actor to have portrayed both the regnant Elizabeths on screen. After her breakthrough film role in The Long Good Friday (1980), other notable film roles included Cal (1984), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, 2010 (1984), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Calendar Girls (2003), Hitchcock (2012), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Woman in Gold (2015), Trumbo (2015), and The Leisure Seeker (2017). She also appeared in the action films Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013) playing an ex-MI6 assassin, and in the Fast & Furious films The Fate of the Furious (2017), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and F9 (2021). In the Queen's 2003 Birthday Honours, Mirren was appointed a Dame (DBE) for services to drama, with investiture taking place at Buckingham Palace. In 2013 she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014 she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2021, she was announced as the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mirren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sonya, 23, is no longer feeling the Christmas spirit. The deaths of two family members-her dementia-stricken grandmother and uncle-gone last year . Since then, her grandfather and aunt have been left alone. Four years earlier, her grandmother(her dad's mum), who lived in the neighbouring town, had died and joined her husband who had died even earlier(Sonya's grandfather). Therefore, only happy and sad memories remain with this town. In addition, her mum is in conflict with her siblings-brother and sister. She holds a huge grudge against them for not helping her to look after their mother when she still had Alzheimer's (although this changed with her sister when her husband died). Things are not any better with Sonya. Her eating disorder has led her to be constantly controlling and fearful even of Christmas Eve dinner, something she always enjoyed so much when she was younger. Christmas Eve will not be the same as it has always been - Christmas spent first with one part of the family at the grandparents on Mum's side and then at the grandparents on Dad's side and playing in the snow in the cold. Instead, mud, rain and sadness hidden behind the small and somewhat feigned joy of any closeness. But maybe things will change? Maybe God will listen to Sonya's prayers and transform this sad Christmas so that everyone, even in a smaller group, will spend it together, around one table, without insincerity and feuds?
