Overview
- The King’s Birthday Honours list elevated Dame Helen Mirren to the Order of the Companions of Honour in recognition of long service to drama.
- Mirren, 80, has a five-decade career that began with the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company and includes Prime Suspect and an Oscar for The Queen.
- She was previously made a Dame (DBE) in 2003 and now joins a group that is limited to 65 living Companions of Honour at any one time.
- Mirren posted that she was “incredibly proud” of the recognition in a video message shared on her Instagram account following the announcement.
- Footage filmed last year showing Mirren being verbally abused in central London has circulated on social media around the honours news, and there are no new official developments about that incident reported in the coverage.