Never mind that the year-old Dame of the British Empire who won an Oscar for playing the Queen just said a four-letter word. Mirren also said that when she takes time off work, she worries that she has forgotten how to act altogether. In "The Hundred-Foot Journey," Mirren plays Madame Mallory, a prickly and particular restaurateur who takes overcooked asparagus as a personal affront. Her Michelin-starred restaurant, set in a quaint village that looks like a postcard, is among the most celebrated in France, and Mallory presides unforgivingly over its staff and cuisine. Her chilly demeanour turns icy when an Indian family opens their own restaurant, the colorful Maison Mumbai, right across the street. Adding to the charmed project was its picturesque setting in the south of France "You'd think you're in an ad for France, but it's all real," Mirren said and nightly home-made meals by co-star Om Puri, who plays the patriarch of the Indian family. But she quashed that fear quickly: "We had Lasse, and Lasse was our secret weapon. Except how to feel comfortable between projects.
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Recalling the first - and last - time they met, ostensibly for a casting session in when Dame Helen was a young actress, she claims he was "insulting and sexist" and tried to humiliate her. The year-old star of The Queen insists Winner, then a movie director, made her turn around and show off her physique. I was so angry - I still am. During the interview - on Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan's celebrity special Christmas Books show, shown on C4 tomorrow afternoon - she was asked if her anger was directed solely at Winner: "Who else? Only him.
Excelling on stage with the National Youth Theatre , Mirren's performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in saw her invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company before she made her West End stage debut in Since then, Mirren has also had success in television and film. For her role on Prime Suspect , which ran from to , she won three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress , and , a joint-record of consecutive wins shared with Julie Walters , and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Pyotr later became a diplomat and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain when he and his family were stranded by the Russian Revolution in He later worked as a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren attended Hamlet Court primary school in Westcliff-on-Sea , where she had the lead role in a school production of Hansel and Gretel , [23] [24] and St Bernard's High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea , where she also acted in school productions.
