Red is a color.

Red or RED may also refer to:

General

; Acronyms (RED)

Random early detection, a queue management algorithm

Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington, a redevelopment scheme in Sydney, Australia

Redruth railway station, Cornwall, England (National Rail station code RED)

Reverse electrodialysis, used in the blue energy process

Review of Economic Dynamics, a macroeconomics journal

; Other

Red (nightclub), a night club in Washington, D.C.

Red (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal bull made by Ty, Inc.

Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, a manufacturer of digital cinema cameras

Red Army the name of the Soviet Army until 1947

Red Gum (disambiguation)

Red River (disambiguation), various and towns

Allura Red AC, commonly called Red #40, a food coloring

American Express Red, a credit card associated with the Product Red initiative

Camp Red Cloud, a United States army camp

Product Red, an initiative to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Rhode Island Red, a breed of chicken

Smith Flyer, a small car known as the "red bug"

Virgin America, uses an in-flight environment called Red

Politics

Red (political adjective), a term describing communism or its adherents

Red (Norway), a political party founded in 2007

Red scare, fear and suspicion of communism

Music

Red (band), an American Christian rock band

Red (Canadian band), a disbanded Canadian folk rock band also known as Uisce Beatha

''Red'' (King Crimson album), a 1974 album by English progressive rock band King Crimson

''Red'' (Black Uhuru album), a 1981 album by Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru

''Red'' (The Communards album), a 1987 album by British pop duo Communards

''Red'' (Leslie Cheung album), a 1996 album by Cantopop musician Leslie Cheung

''Red'' (John Stevens album), a 2005 album by former ''American Idol'' contestant John Stevens

''Red'' (Guillemots album), a 2008 album by English indie rock band Guillemots

''Red'' (Datarock album), a 2009 album by Norwegian dance-punk group Datarock

''The R.E.D. Album'', an upcoming album by American hip hop artist Game

Red (Daniel Merriweather song), the fourth single from Australian singer Daniel Merriweather

''Red'', a 2003 compilation by Hong Kong Cantopop singer Kelly Chen

"Red", a hit single by Sammy Hagar featured on his 1977 self-titled album

"Red", a song by Canadian rock band Treble Charger from their 1997 album ''Maybe It's Me''

"Red", a single by English alternative rock band Elbow from their album ''Asleep in the Back''

RED Distribution, a record distributor

"The Red", a hit single by American hard rock band Chevelle from their 2002 album ''Wonder What's Next''

RED – 1404 AM, a university radio station for the University of Essex

Simply Red, an English soul band

Film

''Red'' (2002 film), a Tamil film

''Red'' (2008 film), an American thriller film

''RED'' (2010 film), an American action-comedy film (loosely) based on the comic book mini-series

''Three Colors: Red'', a 1994 French-Swiss-Polish film and last film of ''Three Colors'' trilogy

also

''Reds'' (film), a 1981 film by Warren Beatty

People

Red (given name)

also:

Redd (given name)

Redd (surname)

Fiction

;Titled works

''Red'' (play), a drama about the painter Mark Rothko by John Logan

''Red'', a novel in the ''Circle Trilogy'' by Ted Dekker

''Red'' (''Doctor Who'' audio), a ''Doctor Who'' audio drama

''Red'' (comics), a three-issue comic book mini-series

''Red'' (manga), a yaoi manga by Sanae Rokuya

;Characters

Red (Cars), a fire truck in the Pixar film ''Cars''

Red (''Mega Man''), a video game character in the ''Mega Man X'' series

Red (Pokémon), the player character in Pokémon Red and Blue

Red, a character from the children's show ''Fraggle Rock''

Red the Dragon, the main villain in the video game ''Spyro: A Hero's Tail''

Red Forman, a fictional character on ''That '70s Show''

Red XIII, a character in ''Final Fantasy VII''

Bertha (South Park), a girl often referred to as Red

Red, a mascot character for M&M;'s candy

Red, the narrator in Steven King's novella ''Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'' and movie ''The Shawshank Redemption''

Red, a character in Tex Avery's MGM cartoon ''Red Hot Riding Hood'' and its sequels

Red, a character in the film ''Hoodwinked''

Red Raymond, a fictional character on ''Hellcats''

Little Red Riding Hood, a fairy tale character

;In games

Reliable Excavation & Demolition, one of the two playable faction in the online FPS Team Fortress 2.

;Other

Red (''Dark Tower''), a metaphor for universal chaos, evil and destruction in the Stephen King's ''Dark Tower'' series of novels

;Television

"Red" (''Dark Angel''), an episode of the television series ''Dark Angel''

See also

Red flag (disambiguation)

Redding (disambiguation)

Redd (disambiguation)

Reds (disambiguation)

Rouge, the French word for Red

Code Red (disambiguation)

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''RED'' is a 2010 American action comedy film loosely inspired by the three-issue comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and Karl Urban with Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. The film was released on October 15, 2010.

In the film version, the title is derived from the designation of the status of agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), meaning "Retired, Extremely Dangerous".

Plot

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, is now living a quiet life in retirement. However, he begins to feel lonely and often chats on the phone with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), a customer service agent working for Frank's pension office in Kansas City. He creates opportunities to talk to her by tearing up his pension checks and calling her to say they had never arrived.

His life is disrupted when a hit squad raids his house in the middle of the night. Frank kills the assassins and, knowing they would have tapped his phone, goes to Kansas City to protect Sarah. She becomes Frank's reluctant companion while he tries to find out who is trying to kill him, and track down his old black ops team for help. Meanwhile, CIA agent William Cooper (Karl Urban) is assigned to hunt and kill Frank.

Frank kidnaps Sarah, keeping her tied up and gagged in his car and then at the hotel, first goes to New Orleans to find his mentor Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), currently living in a retirement community and terminally ill, who tells him that the hit squad Frank killed were also responsible for the murder of a New York Times reporter. While avoiding Cooper, Frank and Sarah find clues left behind by the deceased reporter, which leads them to a hit list. They then track down Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), also a former black ops agent and a paranoid conspiracy theorist, to provide more information. Marvin tells them that the names on the list are all connected to a 1981 secret mission in Guatemala in which Frank and Marvin participated, and that one person, Gabriel Singer (James Remar), is still alive. The trio track down Singer, who tells them that the mission involved extracting a person from a village and that everybody on the list has been killed to silence them. Singer is then assassinated by a helicopter-borne sniper, and the team makes their escape as Cooper closes in. With the help of Russian secret agent Ivan Simanov (Brian Cox), Frank and Sarah infiltrate the CIA headquarters to steal the file but Frank is injured in the process after fighting with Cooper. Joe, having escaped an attempt on his life, helps extract the team and joins them, and they all hide out in Victoria's (Helen Mirren) house for first aid. Victoria, who misses her old life as a wetwork agent, joins the team as well.

After reviewing the file, all the team can figure out is that the only man involved on the reporter's list but not in the file, Alexander Dunning (Richard Dreyfuss), has some way of protecting himself. The team arrives at Dunning's house, where he reveals under interrogation that the mission was to extract Vice-President Robert Stanton (Julian McMahon), who at the time was a young lieutenant who experienced a breakdown and massacred the occupants of the village. It becomes apparent that Stanton is trying to erase all the loose ends as he plans to run for president. At that moment, Cooper and the FBI surround Dunning's mansion. Cooper tries to negotiate Frank's surrender, but Frank tells Cooper about the vice-president's treachery, which shakes his faith. Joe sacrifices himself by taking Frank's place and pretending to give up. An unknown sniper kills Joe as he leaves the mansion, despite Cooper's order to hold fire. The confusion buys the team enough time to escape, but Sarah is captured. Frank calls Cooper and threatens his family if Sarah is harmed, and says that he intends to kill Stanton.

The team, along with Ivan (revealed to be Victoria's former lover), infiltrate Stanton's fundraising gala in Chicago and successfully kidnap him despite Cooper's best efforts to stop them. Frank calls Cooper and says he is willing to trade Stanton for Sarah. At the meeting point, Dunning arrives and reveals that he is the mastermind behind the assassinations and that Stanton was merely a pawn and scapegoat. Cooper's handler, Cynthia Wilkes (Rebecca Pidgeon), is also in on the plot. Disgusted with Dunning and Wilkes' greed and corruption and being used by her and Dunning, Cooper gives Frank the key to his handcuffs and shoots Wilkes while Marvin and Victoria kill Dunning's bodyguards, and Frank crushes Dunning's windpipe. Cooper agrees to let Frank and his team go. As they leave the scene, Frank and Sarah are eager to start a new life together.

The final scene shows Frank and Marvin in Moldova, fleeing from Moldovan Army troops with a stolen nuclear device, in a wooden wheelbarrow with Marvin wearing a dress being pushed by Frank, as part of returning a favor to Ivan for his help.

Cast

Bruce Willis as Frank Moses Mary-Louise Parker as Sarah Ross Morgan Freeman as Joe Matheson Helen Mirren as Victoria John Malkovich as Marvin Boggs Karl Urban as William Cooper Julian McMahon as Vice President Robert Stanton Ernest Borgnine as Henry, The Records Keeper Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Dunning Brian Cox as Ivan Simanov James Remar as Gabriel Singer

Rebecca Pidgeon as Cynthia Wilkes

Production

Gregory Noveck, a representative of DC Comics working in Hollywood to get their titles made into films, wanted the comic developed but Warner Brothers was not interested. The creators of the comic exercised their right to go to elsewhere but this required approval from all divisions of Warner including television before it could be approved. After several years, in 2008 Noveck was allowed to take the project elsewhere, to Mark Vahradian at Di Bonaventura Productions. Unusually this made it the first film from DC not produced by Warner Bros.

In June 2008, Summit Entertainment announced plans to adapt Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's ''RED''. ''RED'' was adapted for the big screen by brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber, who also wrote the adaptations of ''Whiteout'' and ''Alice''. The project was produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (''GI Joe'', ''Transformers'').

By April 2009, Bruce Willis was reportedly in discussions with Summit to take the starring role of Frank Moses. It was reported in July 2009 that Morgan Freeman was in talks to co-star alongside Bruce Willis in the film. Also in July 2009, Robert Schwentke, the director of ''The Time Traveler's Wife'' and ''Flightplan'', was in negotiations to direct ''RED''. In August 2009 Schwentke confirmed to ''MTV News'' that he was onboard. He stated that he loved the script but there are differences between the comic and the movie stating; "It's very funny, which the comic book isn't ... It's not as violent as the comic book," and that "The script that I've read is obviously different from the comic, because I don't think the comic gives you enough for a two-hour movie."

In November 2009, it was reported that Helen Mirren would work alongside Freeman and Willis in the film. It was also reported in November 2009 that John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker were in negotiations to join the cast. Reilly would play a retired CIA agent who is paranoid that everyone is out to kill him. Parker would play the romantic interest, a federal pension worker who becomes embroiled in the Willis character's struggle to stay alive. In the same month Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Cox entered negotiations to join the cast.

In December 2009, creator Warren Ellis stated on his mailing list that "(I) Read the ''RED'' script. Not bad. Not the book, but not bad. Funny. Especially when you know the casting. Very tight piece of work. Talked to the producers last week. They're all kind of giddy over the casting coups. Who wouldn't want to see Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle?". Also in December 2009 Summit Entertainment announced a release date of October 22, 2010. The same month James Remar was cast in an unspecified role, in addition to Karl Urban as "Cooper". In January 2010 it was reported that John Malkovich had signed to star opposite Bruce Willis, replacing John C. Reilly, who exited the role in late December.

Principal photography began on ''RED'' on January 18, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. ''RED'' was shot in and around the Toronto metropolitan area for nine weeks before moving on to the road and ending in New Orleans in late March for the final two weeks of principal photography. Filming in the French Quarter of New Orleans commenced in March 2010. Additional photography was shot for a post-credits scene in Louisiana in August 2010.

Release

''RED'' premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on October 11, 2010.

Marketing

A teaser trailer for the film was released in June 2010. The first full trailer debuted in July 2010 at the San Diego Comic-Con International.

Home media

''RED'' was released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 25, 2011.

Reception

Critical response

Reception for the film has been mostly positive. ''RED'' has a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 170 reviews with an average rating of 6.3/10. Metacritic gave the film a score of 61% based on a normalized rating of 37 reviews.

Positive reviewers of the film include Justin Chang of ''Variety'' stated ''RED'' is "An amusing, light-footed caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement". John DeFore of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' stated "Although tailor-made for genre fans, it benefits from flavors of humor and romance that keep its appeal from being fanboy-only".

Critics of the film include Roger Ebert who gave the film two stars out of four, stating that it's "neither a good movie nor a bad one. It features actors that we like doing things we wish were more interesting."

Box office

On its opening weekend ''Red'' earned an estimated $22.5 million on around 4,100 screens at 3,255 locations, coming in second behind ''Jackass 3-D''. As of March 25, 2011, the film has grossed over $90 million in the United States and total of over $186.5 million worldwide.

Awards

{|class="wikitable" |- !Award !Category !Nominee !Result |- |68th Golden Globe Awards |Best Picture - Musical or Comedy | | |- |rowspan=3|Satellite Award |Best Picture - Musical or Comedy | | |- |Best Actor - Musical or Comedy | John Malkovich | |- |Best Actress - Musical or Comedy | Mary-Louise Parker | |- |2010 Vits Awards |Jury's Movie | | |}

Sequels

In January 2011, it was reported and later confirmed that Summit rehired writers Erich and Jon Hoeber to write a second installment due to the film's financial success, which even surpassed producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura's expectations.

References

External links

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Coordinates	37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N
name	Bruce Willis
birth name	Walter Bruce Willis
birth date	March 19, 1955
birth place	Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
occupation	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Musician
genres	Jazz, Rock
years active	1980–present
other names	W.B. WillisBruno
spouse	Demi Moore (1987–2000)Emma Heming (2009–present)
children	Rumer, Scout, Tallulah
partner	Brooke Burns (2004) }}

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955), better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the ''Die Hard'' series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Sin City'', ''12 Monkeys'', ''The Fifth Element'', ''Armageddon'', and ''The Sixth Sense''.

Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles. He is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning and four-time Saturn Award-nominated actor. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000, following thirteen years of marriage.

Early life

Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His mother, Marlene K., was German and born in Kassel, and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier of German descent. Willis is the eldest of four children: he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis's father took his family back to Carneys Point, New Jersey. Willis has described himself as having come from a "long line of blue collar people"; his mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, and factory worker. Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed ''Buck-Buck'' by his schoolmates. Finding it easy to express himself on stage and losing his stutter in the process, Willis began performing on stage and his high school activities were marked by such things as the drama club and student council president.

After high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and also transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey.

After working as a private investigator (a role he would play in the television series ''Moonlighting'' as well as in the 1991 film, ''The Last Boy Scout''), Willis returned to acting. He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the class production of ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''. Willis left school in his junior year and moved to New York City.

After multiple auditions, Willis made his theater debut in the off-Broadway production of ''Heaven and Earth''. He gained more experience and exposure in ''Fool for Love'', and in a Levi's commercial.

Career

Early career

Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for several television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, titled "No Exit." He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series ''Moonlighting'' (1985–89), competing against 3,000 other actors for the position. The starring role, opposite Cybill Shepherd, helped to establish him as a comedic actor, with the show lasting five seasons. During the height of the show's success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products. The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $5–7 million over two years. In spite of that, Willis chose not to renew his contract with the company when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988.

One of his first major film roles was in the 1987 Blake Edwards film ''Blind Date'', with Kim Basinger and John Larroquette. Edwards would cast him again to play the real-life cowboy actor Tom Mix in ''Sunset'' (1988). However, it was his then-unexpected turn in the film ''Die Hard'' that catapulted him to movie star status. He performed most of his own stunts in the film, and the film grossed $138,708,852 worldwide. Following his success with ''Die Hard'', he had a supporting role in the drama ''In Country'' as Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith and also provided the voice for a talking baby in ''Look Who's Talking'', as well as its sequel ''Look Who's Talking Too''.

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues titled ''The Return of Bruno'', which included the hit single "Respect Yourself", promoted by a Spinal Tap-like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of him performing at famous events including Woodstock. Follow-up recordings were not as successful, though Willis has returned to the recording studio several times. See Discography below.

1990s

Willis acquired major personal success and pop culture influence playing John McClane in 1988's ''Die Hard''. This film was followed up by ''Die Hard 2: Die Harder'' in 1990 and ''Die Hard With a Vengeance'' in 1995. These first three installments in the ''Die Hard'' series grossed over US$700 million internationally and propelled Willis to the first rank of Hollywood action stars.

In the early 1990s, Willis's career suffered a moderate slump starring in flops such as ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'', ''Striking Distance'', and a film he co-wrote titled ''Hudson Hawk'', among others. He starred in a leading role in the highly sexualized thriller ''Color of Night'' (1994), which was very poorly received by critics, but did well in the home video market and became one of the Top 20 most-rented films in the United States in 1995. However, in 1994, he had a supporting role in Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed ''Pulp Fiction'', which gave a new boost to his career. In 1996, he was the executive producer of the cartoon ''Bruno the Kid'' which featured a CGI representation of himself.

He went on to play the lead roles in ''Twelve Monkeys'' (1995) and ''The Fifth Element'' (1997). However, by the end of the 1990s, his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like ''The Jackal'', ''Mercury Rising'', and ''Breakfast of Champions'', saved only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed ''Armageddon'' which was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game ''Apocalypse''. In 1999, Willis then went on to the starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's film, ''The Sixth Sense''. The film was both a commercial and critical success and helped to increase interest in his acting career.

2000s - 2010s

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on ''Friends'' (in which he played the father of Ross Geller's much-younger girlfriend). He was also nominated for a 2001 American Comedy Award (in the Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series category) for his work on ''Friends''. Also in 2000, Willis played Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski in ''The Whole Nine Yards'' alongside Matthew Perry. Willis was originally cast as Terry Benedict in ''Ocean's Eleven'' (2001) but dropped out to work on recording an album. In ''Ocean's Twelve'' (2004), he makes a cameo appearance as himself. In 2007, he appeared in the ''Planet Terror'' half of the double feature ''Grindhouse'' as the villain, a mutant soldier. This marks Willis's second collaboration with director Robert Rodriguez, following ''Sin City''.

Willis has appeared on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' several times throughout his career. He filled in for an ill David Letterman on his show February 26, 2003, when he was supposed to be a guest. On many of his appearances on the show, Willis stages elaborate jokes, such as wearing a day-glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates, having one side of his face made up with simulated buckshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting, or trying to break a record (parody of David Blaine) of staying underwater for only twenty seconds.

On April 12, 2007, he appeared again, this time wearing a Sanjaya Malakar wig. His most recent appearance was on June 25, 2007 when he appeared wearing a mini-turbine strapped to his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled ''An Unappealing Hunch'' (a wordplay of ''An Inconvenient Truth''). Willis also appeared on Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials. Tying in with this, Subaru did a limited run of Legacys, badged "Subaru Legacy Touring Bruce", in honor of Willis.

Willis has appeared in four films with Samuel L. Jackson (National Lampoon's ''Loaded Weapon 1'', ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'', and ''Unbreakable'') and both actors were slated to work together in ''Black Water Transit'', before dropping out. Willis also worked with his eldest daughter, Rumer, in the 2005 film ''Hostage''. In 2007, he appeared in the thriller ''Perfect Stranger'', opposite Halle Berry, the crime/drama film ''Alpha Dog'', opposite Sharon Stone, and marked his return to the role of John McClane in ''Live Free or Die Hard''. Recently he appeared in the films ''What Just Happened'' and ''Surrogates'', based on the comic book of the same name.

Willis was slated to play U.S. Army general William R. Peers in director Oliver Stone's ''Pinkville'', a drama about the investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre. However, due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, the film was cancelled. Willis appeared on the 2008 Blues Traveler album ''North Hollywood Shootout'', giving a spoken word performance over an instrumental blues-rock jam on the track "Free Willis (Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob's Machine Shop)". In early 2009, he appeared in an advertising campaign to publicize the insurance company Norwich Union's change of name to Aviva. He also appeared in the music video for the song "I Will Not Bow" by Breaking Benjamin. The song is from his 2009 science fiction film ''Surrogates''.

Willis starred with Tracy Morgan in the comedy ''Cop Out'', directed by Kevin Smith and about two police detectives investigating the theft of a baseball card. The film was released in February 2010. Willis appeared in the music video for the song "Stylo" by Gorillaz. Also in 2010, he appeared in a cameo with former Planet Hollywood co-owners and '80s action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film ''The Expendables''. Bruce Willis played the role of "Mr. Church". This was the first time these three legendary action stars appeared on screen together. Although the scene featuring the three was short, it was one of the most highly anticipated scenes in the film. The trio filmed their scene in an empty church on October 24, 2009. His most recent project was ''Red'', an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name, in which he portrayed Frank Moses. The film was released on October 15, 2010.

Upcoming films

Willis will star in the movie adaptation of the video game ''Kane & Lynch: Dead Men'', named ''Kane & Lynch''. He will also star in the upcoming movies ''Catch .44'', ''The Cold Light of Day'', ''Moonrise Kingdom'', and ''Looper''.

On May 5, 2010, it was announced that ''Die Hard 5'' would be made and that Willis was on board to play his most famous role of John McClane for a fifth time.

Sylvester Stallone revealed that he is talking to Willis about returning for ''The Expendables'' sequel. Stallone has said that he wants to expand Willis' role and that he wants Willis to play the villain in the next Expendables. They have talked about Willis' schedule and possible actors that could join the sequel.

Filming for a new movie, ''Moonrise Kingdom'', starring Bruce Willis alongside Bill Murray, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand, is expected to begin in the first half of 2011. Filming will take place in Rhode Island under the direction of Wes Anderson.

Willis will team up with 50 Cent in a new film directed by David Barrett called ''Fire with Fire'', about a fireman who must save the love of his life. Willis will also join Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones in ''Lay the Favorite'', directed by Stephen Frears, about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler. The two films will be distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment.

Business activities

Willis owns property in Los Angeles, rents an apartment in the Trump Tower in New York City, and Trump Place, as well as a home in Malibu, California, a ranch in Montana, a beach home on Parrot Cay in Turks and Caicos, and multiple properties in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Willis started his own motion picture production company called Cheyenne Enterprises, which he started with his business partner Arnold Rifkin in 2000. He left the company to be run solely by Rifkin in 2007 after Live Free or Die Hard. He also owns several small businesses in Hailey, Idaho, including The Mint Bar and The Liberty Theater and is a co-founder of Planet Hollywood, with actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. In 2009 Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA's Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3% ownership in the company.

Personal life

Willis' acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.

Marriages and family

At the premiere for the film ''Stakeout'', Willis met actress Demi Moore. Willis married Moore on November 21, 1987 and had three daughters: Rumer Willis (b. August 16, 1988), Scout LaRue Willis (b. July 20, 1991) and Tallulah Belle Willis (b. February 3, 1994) before the couple divorced on October 18, 2000. The couple gave no public reason for their breakup. Regarding the divorce, Willis stated, "I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it work." He credited actor Will Smith for helping him cope with the situation. After their breakup, rumors persisted that the couple planned to re-marry, until Moore married the actor Ashton Kutcher. Willis has maintained a close relationship with both Moore and Kutcher, even attending their wedding. Willis and Moore currently share custody of their daughters.

Willis was engaged to Brooke Burns until they broke up in 2004 after ten months together. He married Emma Heming in Turks and Caicos on March 21, 2009; guests included his three daughters, Moore, and Kutcher. The ceremony was not legally binding, so the couple wed again in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills six days later. Willis has expressed interest in having more children.

Political views

In 1988, he and Moore actively campaigned for Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis's Presidential bid. Four years later, he supported President George H.W. Bush for reelection and he was a vocal critic of Bill Clinton. However, in 1996, he declined to endorse Clinton's Republican opponent Bob Dole, because Dole had criticized Moore for her role in the film ''Striptease''. Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention, and actively supported George W. Bush that year. He did not make any contributions or public endorsements in the 2008 presidential campaign. In several June 2007 interviews, he declared that he still maintains some Republican ideologies.

In 2006, he proposed that the United States should invade Colombia, in order to end the drug trafficking. In several interviews Willis has said that he supports large salaries for teachers and police officers, and says that he is disappointed in the United States' foster care and treatment of Native Americans. Willis also stated that he is a big supporter of gun rights:

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In February 2006, Willis appeared in Manhattan to talk about ''16 Blocks'' with reporters. One reporter attempted to ask Willis about his opinion on current events, but was interrupted by Willis in mid-sentence: "I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."

Willis's name was in an advertisement in the ''Los Angeles Times'' on August 17, 2006, that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Military pursuits

Throughout his film career, Willis has depicted several military characters in films such as ''The Siege'', ''Hart's War'', ''Tears of the Sun'', and ''Grindhouse''. Growing up in a military family, Willis has publicly sold Girl Scout cookies for the United States armed forces. In 2002, Willis's youngest daughter, Tallulah, suggested that he purchase Girl Scout cookies to send to troops. Willis purchased 12,000 boxes of cookies, and they were distributed to sailors aboard USS ''John F. Kennedy'' and other troops stationed throughout the Middle East at the time. In 2003, Willis visited Iraq as part of the USO tour, singing to the troops with his band, The Accelerators. Willis considered joining the military to help fight the second Iraq war, but was deterred by his age. It was believed he offered US$1 million to any non combatant who turns in terrorist leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; in the June 2007 issue of ''Vanity Fair'', however, he clarified that the statement was made hypothetically and not meant to be taken literally. Willis has also criticized the media for its coverage of the war, complaining that the press were more likely to focus on the negative aspects of the war:

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Willis stated in 2005 that he wanted to "make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy." The film would follow members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, who spent considerable time in Mosul and were decorated heavily for it. The film is to be based on the writings of blogger Michael Yon, a former United States Army Special Forces soldier who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their activities. Willis described the plot of the film as "these guys who do what they are asked for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom."

Controversy

Comments at playoffs

Willis, an avid New Jersey Nets fan, made controversial comments on April 29, 2007 during a live broadcast of a Nets home playoff game on TSN by saying a catch phrase from his ''Die Hard'' films, "Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker", at the end of the interview. Reacting to the backlash, he later blamed his actions on jet lag, stating: "Sometimes I overestimate my ability to function under duress with less than enough sleep".

"Walter_B"

On May 5, 2007, someone using the screen name "Walter_B" started posting detailed responses onto Ain't it Cool News, where people were discussing the fact that ''Live Free or Die Hard'' received a PG-13 rating, instead of an R rating like the earlier three ''Die Hard'' films. The responses included detailed information on ''Live Free or Die Hard'', which was yet to be released; the theme of the ''Die Hard'' film series, direct criticisms of other film crews and casts, and many film trivia answers. Many people were skeptical that "Walter_B" was indeed Willis, but on May 9, Willis revealed his identity on a video chat session (using iChat).

Cultural references

In 1996, Roger Director, a writer and producer from ''Moonlighting'' wrote a roman à clef on Willis titled ''A Place to Fall''. Cybill Shepherd wrote in her 2000 autobiography, ''Cybill Disobedience'', that Willis was angry at Director, because the character was written as a "neurotic, petulant actor."

In 1998, Willis participated in ''Apocalypse'', a PlayStation video game. The game was originally announced to feature Willis as a sidekick, not as the main character. The company reworked the game using Willis's likeness and voice and changed the game to use him as the main character.

In an early episode of ''Code Lyoko'' season one episode "Holiday in the Fog" aired in 2003, Jim Morales assures Sissi that Jeremie will come to their aide when the two are trapped in an air-tight closet with toxic smoke outside. Sissi sarcastically remarks how nice it is that "the closest thing to Bruce Willis is coming to rescue" them.

Filmography

+ Film
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1980	''''	Man Entering Diner	(uncredited)
1982	''''	Courtroom Observer	(uncredited)
1985	''''	Extra	(uncredited)
1987		Walter Davis
1988	''''	Bruno Radolini
1988		Tom Mix
1988	''Die Hard''	John McClane
1989	''That's Adequate''	Himself
1989	''In Country''	Emmett Smith	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1989	''Look Who's Talking''	Mikey	Voice Only
1990	''Die Hard 2''	John McClane
1990	''Look Who's Talking Too''	Mikey	Voice Only
1990	''''	Peter Fallow
1991	''Mortal Thoughts''	James Urbanski
1991	''Hudson Hawk''	Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins	Writer
1991		Bo Weinberg
1991	''''	Joseph Cornelius 'Joe' Hallenbeck
1992	''''	Himself
1992	''Death Becomes Her''	Dr. Ernest Menville	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor
1993	''Loaded Weapon 1''	John McClane	Uncredited
1993	''Striking Distance''	Tom 'Tommy' Hardy
1994		Narrator
1994	''Color of Night''	Dr. Bill Capa
1994			Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor
1994		Carl Roebuck	Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor
1995	''Die Hard with a Vengeance''	John McClane
1995	''Four Rooms''	Leo	Uncredited
1995	''Twelve Monkeys''	James Cole	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor
1996		John Smith
1996	''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America''	Muddy Grimes	Voice Only
1997	''''	Korben Dallas
1997	''''	The Jackal
1998	''Mercury Rising''	Art Jeffries
1998		Harry S. Stamper	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor
1998	''''	Major General William Devereaux
1999	""	Himself	Short subject
1999		Dwayne Hoover
1999	''''	Dr. Malcolm Crowe	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor
1999	''''	Ben Jordan
2000	''''	Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski
2000	''Disney's The Kid''	Russell 'Russ' Duritz
2000		David Dunn
2001	''Bandits''	Joe Blake
2002	''Hart's War''	Col. William A. McNamara
2002	''Grand Champion''	Mr. Blandford
2003	''Tears of the Sun''	Lieutenant A.K. Waters
2003	''Rugrats Go Wild''	Spike	Voice Only
2003	''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''	William Rose Bailey	Uncredited
2004	''''	Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski
2004	''Ocean's Twelve''	Himself
2005		Jeff Talley	Also Producer
2005		John Hartigan
2006	''Alpha Dog''	Sonny Truelove
2006	''16 Blocks''	Jack Mosley	Also Producer
2006		Harry Rydell
2006	''Lucky Number Slevin''	Mr. Goodkat
2006		RJ	Voice Only
2007	''''	Colonel Doug Masterson	Uncredited
2007		Harrison Hill
2007		Lt. Muldoon
2007		Himself	Uncredited
2007	''Live Free or Die Hard''	John McClane	Also Producer. Named 'Die Hard 4.0' outside North America
2008	''What Just Happened''	Himself
2008	''Assassination of a High School President''	Principal Kirkpatrick
2009		Agent Tom Greer
2010		Jimmy Monroe
2010	''''	Mr. Church	Cameo
2010		Frank Moses
2011	''Catch .44''	Mel	''post-production''
2011		Biggs	''in production''
2012	''''	Martin	''filming''
2012	''Lay the Favorite''	Dink Heimowitz	''filming''
2012	''G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation''	General Joseph Colton	''in production''
2012		Older Joe	''in production''
2012		Kane	''in production''

+ Television
Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1984	''Miami Vice''	Tony Amato
1985	''''	Peter Jay Novins	Episode: "Shatterday"
1985–89		David Addison Jr.	67 episodes
1996–97	''Bruno the Kid''	Bruno the Kid	Voice
1997	''Mad About You''	Amnesia patient	Episode: "The Birth Part 2"
1999	''Ally McBeal''	Dr. Nickle	Episode: "Love Unlimited"
2000	''Friends''	Paul Stevens	Three episodes
2002		Lee	Television film
2005	''That '70s Show''	Vic	Episode: "Misfire"

+ Late Show with David Letterman Appearances
! Date	! Costume, Product, or Skit
Feb 2006	Coffee (Starbruce)
Sept 2006	Robotic Mop (Robo Bruce)
Sept 2007	Wind-powered Turbine Helmet, Illegal Fireworks (Ka-Bruce), "Roof Jump" skit
Nov 2008	Sarah Palin wig, Turkey Deep Fryer (Fry Hard with a Vengeance)
May 2009	Rubber Band Helmet (Bruce Willis' Concussion-Buster), "'Obsessed' Movie Cameo" skit
Sept 2009	Blanket w/Hairpiece (Bruce Willis' Skanket)
Dec 2009	"Bruce the Late Show Intern" skit
Feb 2010	Jets Fan outfit, "Olympic Skier" skit, Underwear (Bruce Willis' Amazing Exploding Underpants)
Oct 2010	Meat Hairpiece

+ Producer
! Year	! Title	Notes
1988		Co-executive producer
2002	''''	Producer
2007	''''	Executive producer

Discography

Solo albums ''The Return of Bruno'', 1987, Motown, ''If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger'', 1989, Motown / Pgd, . ''Classic Bruce Willis: The Universal Masters Collection'', 2001, Polygram Int'l, .

Compilations / Guest appearances

''Moonlighting'' soundtrack, 1986; track "Good Lovin'"

''Hudson Hawk'' soundtrack, 1991; tracks "Swinging on a Star" and "Side by Side", both duets with Danny Aiello

''Rugrats Go Wild'' soundtrack, 2003; "Big Bad Cat" with Chrissie Hynde and "Lust for Life"

Blues Traveler, ''North Hollywood Shootout'', 2008; track "Free Willis (Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob's Machine Shop)"

Singles Chart

In 1987, Bruce Willis released sang a number of tracks on the soundtrack of the film "The Return of Bruno" including:

''Respect Yourself'', reached number 5 in the US and number 7 in the UK

''Under The Boardwalk'', reached number 59 in the US and number 2 in the UK

''Young Blood'', reached number 62 in the US

In the UK the following singles also charted:

"Secret Agent Man - James Bond is Back", number 43 (September 1987)

"Comin' Right Up", number 73 (January 1988)

Awards and honors

Willis has won a variety of awards and has received various honors throughout his career in television and film.

For his work on the television show ''Moonlighting'' he won an Emmy ("Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series") and a Golden Globe ("Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical") plus received additional nominations for the show.

He was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Supporting Actor" for his role in the film ''In Country''

Maxim magazine had named his sex scenes in ''Color of Night'' (1994) as the best sex scenes ever in film history. In the 1999 drama/thriller film, ''The Sixth Sense'', Willis won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award ("Favorite Actor — Suspense") and the People's Choice Award ("Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Drama"). He was also nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor and received two nominations for the MTV Movie Awards for "Best Male Performance" and "Best On-Screen Duo".

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends.

In February 2002, Willis was awarded the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. According to the organization, the award is given to performers who give a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment. Also in 2002, Willis was appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush. Willis wrote online: "I saw Foster Care as a way for me to serve my country in a system by which shining a little bit of light could benefit a great deal by helping kids who were literally wards of the government." In April 2006, he was honored by French government for his contributions to the film industry. Willis was named "Officier Dans L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres" (Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters) in a ceremony in Paris. The French Prime Minister stated "This is France's way of paying tribute to an actor who epitomizes the strength of American cinema, the power of the emotions that he invites us to share on the world's screens and the sturdy personalities of his legendary characters." On October 16, 2006, Willis was honored with a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star is located at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard and it was the 2,321st star awarded in its history. Willis, reacting to his reception of the star, stated "I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do to get one...time has passed and now here I am doing this, and I'm still excited. I'm still excited to be an actor."

References

External links

BruceWillis.com (Way Back Machine) Official website – shutdown since Thanksgiving 2005. Link refers to the cached homepages of the site at Archive.org.

Bruce Willis interview on ''The Tavis Smiley Show''

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years active	1965–present
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Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.

Early life and family

Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913–1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909–1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain, when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family.

His son, Helen Mirren's father, changed the family name to the Scottish-sounding Mirren in the 1950s and became known as Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".

The first house she remembers living in was in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, when she was two or three years old, after the birth of her younger brother, who was named Peter Basil after his grandfather and great-great-grandfather. Mirren was the second of three children, born two years after her older sister Katherine ("Kate"; born 1942). She later lived in Leigh-on-Sea.

Education

Mirren attended St Bernard's High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea, where she acted in school productions, and subsequently a teaching college, the New College of Speech and Drama in London, "housed within Anna Pavlova's old home, Ivy House" on the North End Road – which leads from Golders Green to Hampstead, N. London. At age eighteen, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. By the time she was 20, she was Cleopatra in the NYT production of ''Antony and Cleopatra'' at the Old Vic, which led to her signing with the agent Al Parker.

Theatre

Early years

Her work for the NYT led to Mirren joining the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), playing Castiza in Trevor Nunn's 1966 staging of ''The Revenger's Tragedy'', Diana in ''All's Well That Ends Well'' in 1967, Cressida in ''Troilus and Cressida'' and Phebe in ''As You Like It'' in 1968, Julia in ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' in 1970, and Tatiana in Gorky's ''Enemies'' at the Aldwych and the title role in ''Miss Julie'' at The Other Place in 1971. She also appeared in four productions, directed by Braham Murray for Century Theatre at the University Theatre in Manchester between 1965 and 1967.

In 1970 Director/producer John Goldschmidt made the documentary film ''Doing Her Own Thing'' about Mirren at the Royal Shakespeare Company. The film was made for ATV and shown on the ITV Network in the UK.

In 1972–73 Mirren worked with Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre Research, and joined the group's tour in North Africa and the US which created ''The Conference of the Birds''. Returning to the RSC she played Lady Macbeth at Stratford in 1974 and at the Aldwych Theatre in 1975.

As reported by Sally Beauman in her 1982 history of the RSC, Mirren, while appearing in Nunn's ''Macbeth'' (1974) and in a highly publicised letter to ''The Guardian'' newspaper, attacked both the National Theatre and the RSC for their lavish production expenditure, declaring it "unnecessary and destructive to the art of the Theatre," and adding, "The realms of truth, emotion and imagination reached for in acting a great play have become more and more remote, often totally unreachable across an abyss of costume and technicalities..." There were no discernible repercussions for this rebuke of the RSC.

West End and RSC

At the Royal Court in September 1975 she notably played rock star Maggie in ''Teeth 'n' Smiles'', a musical play by David Hare, which was revived at Wyndham's Theatre in May 1976 winning her the Plays & Players Best Actress award, voted by the London critics.

From November 1975 Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in ''The Seagull'' and Ella in Ben Travers' new farce ''The Bed Before Yesterday'' ("Mirren is stirringly voluptuous as the Harlowesque good-time girl": Michael Billington, ''The Guardian'', 10 December 1975). At the RSC in Stratford in 1977, and at the Aldwych the following year, she played a steely Queen Margaret in Terry Hands' production of the three parts of ''Henry VI'', while 1979 saw her 'bursting with grace' with an acclaimed performance as Isabella in Peter Gill's otherwise unexceptional production of ''Measure for Measure'' at Riverside Studios.

In 1981 she returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friel's ''Faith Healer''. In the same year she also received acclaim for her performance in the title role of John Webster's ''The Duchess of Malfi'', a production of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre which transferred to The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. Reviewing her portrayal for ''The Sunday Telegraph'', Francis King wrote: "Miss Mirren never leaves it in doubt that even in her absences, this ardent, beautiful woman is the most important character of the story."

Her performance as Moll Cutpurse in ''The Roaring Girl'' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in January 1983, and at the Barbican Theatre April 1983), "swaggered through the action with radiant singularity of purpose, filling in areas of light and shade that even Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker omitted." – Michael Coveney, ''Financial Times'', April 1983.

After a relatively barren sojourn in the Hollywood Hills, she returned to England at the beginning of 1989 to co-star with Bob Peck at the Young Vic in the London premiere of the Arthur Miller double-bill, ''Two Way Mirror'', performances which prompted Miller to remark: "What is so good about English actors is that they are not afraid of the open expression of large emotions" (interview by Sheridan Morley: ''The Times'' 11 January 1989). In ''Elegy for a Lady'' she played the svelte proprietress of a classy boutique, while as the blonde hooker in ''Some Kind of Love Story'' she was "clad in a Freudian slip and shifting easily from waif-like vulnerability to sexual aggression, giving the role a breathy Monroesque quality" (Michael Billington, ''The Guardian'').

Broadway debut

A further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev's ''A Month in the Country''. Her co-stars were John Hurt as her aimless lover Rakitin and Joseph Fiennes in only his second professional stage appearance as the cocksure young tutor Belyaev. "Instead of a bored Natalya fretting the summer away in dull frocks, Mirren, dazzlingly gowned, is a woman almost wilfully allowing her heart's desire for her son's young tutor to rule her head and wreak domestic havoc....Creamy shoulders bared, she feels free to launch into a gloriously enchanted, dreamily comic self-confession of love." (John Thaxter, Richmond & Twickenham Times, 4 March 1994).

Mirren was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1995 for her Broadway debut in ''A Month in the Country'', now directed by Scott Ellis ("Miss Mirren's performance is bigger and more animated than the one she gave last year in an entirely different London production", Vincent Canby in the NY Times, 26 April 1995). Then again in 2002 for August Strindberg's ''Dance of Death'', co-starring with Sir Ian McKellen, their fraught rehearsal period coinciding with the terrorist attacks on New York on September 11, 2001 (as recorded in her ''In the Frame'' autobiography, September 2007).

National Theatre

Mirren had an unhappy experience at the National Theatre in 1998 when she played Cleopatra to Alan Rickman's Antony. In 2000 Nicholas Hytner, who had worked with Mirren on the film version of ''The Madness of King George'', cast her as Lady Torrance in his revival of Tennessee Williams' ''Orpheus Descending'' at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Michael Billington, reviewing for ''The Guardian'', described her performance as "an exemplary study of an immigrant woman who has acquired a patina of resilient toughness but who slowly acknowledges her sensuality."

At the National Theatre in November 2003 she again won praise playing Christine Mannon ("defiantly cool, camp and skittish", ''Evening Standard''; "glows with mature sexual allure", ''Daily Telegraph'') in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' directed by Howard Davies.

“This production was one of the best experiences of my professional life, The play was four and a half hours long, and I have never known that kind of response from an audience ... It was the serendipity of a beautifully cast play, with great design and direction, It will be hard to be in anything better.” (''In the Frame'', September 2007).

She played the tragic title role in Jean Racine's ''Phèdre'' at the National in 2009, in a production directed by Nicholas Hytner. The production was also staged at the amphitheater of Epidaurus on 11 and 12 July 2009.

Selected stage credits

Cleopatra, ''Anthony and Cleopatra'', Old Vic Theatre, London, 1965

Cathleen, ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'', Century Theatre, Manchester,England 1965

Kitty, ''Charley's Aunt'', Century Theatre, Manchester, 1967

Nerissa, ''The Merchant of Venice'', Century Theatre,Manchester, 1967

Castiza, ''The Revenger's Tragedy'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1967

Diana, ''All's Well That Ends Well'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1967

Cressida, ''Troilus and Cressida'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1968

Hero, ''Much Ado about Nothing'', Aldwych Theatre, 1968–1969

Win-the-Fight Littlewit, ''Bartholomew Fair'', Aldwych Theatre, 1969

Lady Anne, ''Richard III'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1970

Ophelia, ''Hamlet'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1970

Julia, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1970

Tatyana, ''Enemies'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971

Harriet, ''The Man of Mode'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971

Title role, ''Miss Julie'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971

Elayne, ''The Balcony'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1971

Isabella, ''Measure for Measure'', Riverside Studios Theatre, London,1974

Lady Macbeth, ''Macbeth'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1974, then Aldwych Theatre, 1975

Maggie, ''Teeth 'n' Smiles'', Royal Court Theatre, London, 1975, thenWyndham's Theatre, London, 1976

Nina, ''The Seagull'', Lyric Theatre, London, 1975

Ella, ''The Bed before Yesterday'', Lyric Theatre, 1975

Queen Margaret, ''Henry VI, Parts I, II and III'', Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1977, then Aldwych Theatre, 1978

Title role, ''The Duchess of Malfi'', Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, England, 1980, then Mound House Theatre, London, 1981

Grace, ''Faith Healer'', Royal Court Theatre, 1981

Cleopatra, ''Antony and Cleopatra'', Pit Theatre, London, 1983

Moll Cutpurse, ''The Roaring Girl'', Barbican Theatre, London, 1983

Marjorie, ''Extremities'', Duchess Theatre, London, 1984

''Madame Bovary'', 1987

Angela, "Some Kind of Love Story," and dying woman, "Elegy for a Lady," in ''Two-Way Mirror'' (double-bill), Young Vic Theatre, *London, 1989

''Sex Please We're Italian'', 1991

Natalya Petrovna, ''A Month in the Country'', London, 1994, then Criterion Theatre, New York City, 1995

''Antony and Cleopatra'', Royal National Theatre, London, 1998

''Collected Stories'', London, 1999

Lady Torrance, ''Orpheus Descending'', Donmar Warehouse, London, 2000

Alice, ''Dance of Death'', Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 2001–2002

''Mourning Becomes Electra'', Lyttelton Stage, Royal National Theatre, 2003

''Phedre'', National Theatre, 2009

Also appeared as Susie Monmican, The Silver Lassie; in ''Woman in Mind'', Los Angeles.

Film

Mirren has also appeared in a large number of films throughout her career. Some of her earlier film roles include ''Age of Consent'', ''O Lucky Man!'', ''Caligula'', ''Excalibur'', ''2010'', ''The Long Good Friday'', ''White Nights'', ''When the Whales Came'' and ''The Mosquito Coast''. She appeared in ''Some Mother's Son'', ''Painted Lady'', ''The Prince of Egypt'' and ''The Madness of King George''. One of her other film roles was in Peter Greenaway's ''The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'', as the eponymous thief's wife, opposite Michael Gambon. Her favourite film is ''Teaching Mrs. Tingle'', in which she plays sadistic History teacher, Mrs Eve Tingle.

Mirren continued her successful film career when she starred more recently in ''Gosford Park'' with Maggie Smith and ''Calendar Girls'' where she starred with Julie Walters. Other more recent appearances include ''The Clearing'', ''Pride'', ''Raising Helen'', and ''Shadowboxer''. Mirren also provided the voice for the supercomputer "Deep Thought" in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. During her career, she has portrayed three British queens in different films and television series: Elizabeth I in the television series ''Elizabeth I'' (2005), Elizabeth II in ''The Queen'' (2006), and Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, in ''The Madness of King George'' (1994). She is the only actress ever to have portrayed both Queens Elizabeth on the screen.

Mirren's title role of ''The Queen'' earned her numerous acting awards including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award, among many others. During her acceptance speech at the Academy Award ceremony, she praised and thanked Elizabeth II and stated that she had maintained her dignity and weathered many storms during her reign as Queen. Mirren later appeared in supporting roles in the films ''National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets'', ''Inkheart'', ''State of Play'', and ''The Last Station'', for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

In preparation for her role as a retired Israeli Mossad agent in the film ''The Debt'', Mirren reportedly immersed herself in studies of Hebrew language, Jewish history, and Holocaust writing, including the life of Simon Wiesenthal, while in Israel in 2009 for the filming of some of the movie's scenes. The film is a remake of a 2007 Israeli film of the same name (Hebrew: Ha-khov).

Television

Mirren is known for her role as detective Jane Tennison in the widely viewed ''Prime Suspect'', a multiple award-winning television drama that was noted for its high quality and popularity. Her portrayal of Tennison won her three consecutive BAFTA awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994.

Some of Mirren's other television performances include ''Cousin Bette'' (1971); ''As You Like It'' (1979); ''Blue Remembered Hills'' (1979); ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "Dead Woman's Shoes" (1985); ''Losing Chase'' (1996); ''The Passion of Ayn Rand'' (1999), where her performance won her both the Emmy and the Golden Globe; ''Door to Door'' (2002); and ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'' (2003). In 1976, she appeared with Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates and Malcolm McDowell in a production of Harold Pinter's ''The Collection'' as part of the ''Laurence Olivier Presents'' series. She also played Elizabeth I in 2005, in the television serial ''Elizabeth I'', for Channel 4 and HBO, for which she received an Emmy Award. Mirren won another Emmy Award on 16 September 2007 for her role in ''Prime Suspect: The Final Act'' on PBS in the same category as in 2006.

Mirren hosted ''Saturday Night Live'' on 9 April 2011.

Awards and recognition

Film awards

In 1984, Mirren won Best Actress for her role in the film ''Cal'' at the Cannes Film Festival and the 1985 Evening Standard British Film Awards. In 1994 and 2001, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her roles in ''The Madness of King George'' and ''Gosford Park'', respectively. In 1995, she had also been awarded for Best Actress once again in Cannes for playing Queen Charlotte in ''The Madness of King George''. In 2002, she received the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for ''Gosford Park''. Mirren is the first female actress to be nominated for three acting performances at the Golden Globe Awards in the same year. She won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in the movie drama category for Stephen Frears' ''The Queen'' in 2006 (along with two nominations in the Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie category for ''Elizabeth I'', and ''Prime Suspect: Final Act''). She won both Golden Globes for ''The Queen'' and ''Elizabeth I'' and also won two SAG awards the same year for the same roles. Mirren is the third actor to win two Golden Globes in the same year, and the first ever to win for both leading roles in TV and film in the same year. She is one of only three actresses (the first was Liza Minnelli in 1973 and then decades later Helen Hunt) to win a Golden Globe, an Oscar and an Emmy for performances given in the same year.

Along with the Golden Globe, Mirren's acclaimed performance in ''The Queen'' won her the 2007 Academy Award for Best Actress. She also received Best Actress awards from the Venice Film Festival, Broadcast Film Critics, National Board of Review, Satellite Awards, Screen Actors Guild and a BAFTA, as well as critics awards from all over the world. Entertainment Weekly recently ranked her Number 2 for Entertainer of the Year for 2006 and also won the award for best actress in film at the new Greatest Britons Awards for her role in ''The Queen''. In 2007, Mirren became an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin.

She won the Best Actress award at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival for her performance as Tolstoy's wife in ''The Last Station''.

Academy Award nominations

Best Actress

* '''2006 – ''The Queen''

* 2009 – ''The Last Station''

Best Supporting Actress

* 1994 – ''The Madness of King George''

* 2001 – ''Gosford Park''

Television awards

Mirren won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Mini-series or TV Movie in 1997 for her role in ''Losing Chase''. She received two nominations in the Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie category for ''Elizabeth I'', and ''Prime Suspect: The Final Act'', where she only won the Golden Globe for her title role performance in ''Elizabeth I''. In that same year she won an SAG award for that same role. Mirren also won an Emmy for her role in ''Elizabeth I'' in category Lead Actress in a Mini-Series or a Movie in 2006. She had previously won an Emmy twice before, in that same category, in 1996 for her role in ''Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness'' and in 1999 for ''The Passion of Ayn Rand''.

At the end of a triumphant year of awards for her acclaimed movie performance as Queen Elizabeth II in ''The Queen'', Dame Helen also collected a 2007 Emmy Television award as Best Actress in a Mini-Series for her performance as Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in ''Prime Suspect: The Final Act''. She now has four Emmy awards. This seventh, and apparently concluding instalment, of the ''Prime Suspect'' saga portrayed Tennison as an alcoholic destined for retirement. It was screened in the US on the public service network PBS.

Emmy Awards

Awards won are indicated by bold lettering.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

1993 – ''Prime Suspect 2''

1994 – ''Prime Suspect 3''

1996 – ''''Prime Suspect 4'': "Scent of Darkness"''

1997 – ''Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment''

1999 – ''The Passion of Ayn Rand''

2003 – ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone''

2004 – ''Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness''

2006 – ''Elizabeth I''

2007 – ''Prime Suspect: The Final Act''

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

2003 – ''Door to Door''

Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts

Each year, since 1988, The Critics' Circle has presented an award for Distinguished Service to the Arts voted for by all members of the Circle embracing: Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts and Architecture. At a celebratory luncheon, on 10 April 2007 in the National Theatre's Terrace Restaurant, the award for 2006 was presented to Dame Helen Mirren. As David Gritten, chairman of the Film section made clear, the decision to make the award was voted on in November 2006, well in advance of the awards hubbub that surrounded her performance in ''The Queen''. Accepting the award, an engraved crystal rose bowl, Mirren described it as the most useful she has ever received, while reflecting poignantly that this now "might be the last award I will win in my life. It has been a most incredible year. You do the work and then....." Previous recipients include Peter Hall (1988), Judi Dench (1997) and Ian McKellen (2003).

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

On 5 December 2003, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). When she received the honour, Mirren commented that Prince Charles was "very graceful" but forgot to give her half of the award. Another person had to remind him to give Mirren the star. She also said that she felt wary about accepting the award and had to be persuaded by fellow comrades to accept the DBE. In 1996, she had declined appointment as a Commander of the order (CBE).

Personal life

Mirren married American director Taylor Hackford (her partner since 1986) on 31 December 1997, his 53rd birthday. The ceremony took place at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The couple had met on the set of ''White Nights''. It is her first marriage, and his third (he has two children from his previous marriages). Mirren has no children and says she has "no maternal instinct whatsoever."

In the August 2011 issue of Esquire magazine, Mirren said, "I am quite spiritual. I believed in fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God."

Mirren's autobiography, ''In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures'', was published in the UK by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in September 2007. Reviewing for ''The Stage'', John Thaxter wrote: "Sumptuously illustrated, at first sight it looks like another of those photo albums of the stars. But between the pictures there are almost 200 pages of densely printed text, an unusually frank story of her private and professional life, mainly in the theatre, the words clearly Mirren's own, delivered with forthright candour."

In 1990, Mirren stated in an interview that she is an atheist.

In a ''GQ'' interview in 2008, Mirren stated she had been date raped as a student and had often taken cocaine at parties during the 1980s. She stopped using the drug after reading that Klaus Barbie made a living from cocaine dealing.

On 11 May 2010, Mirren attended the unveiling of her waxwork at Madame Tussauds London. The figure reportedly cost £150,000 to make and took four months to complete.

Controversy

In July 2010, during the Anglo-American BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Mirren declared herself to be "embarrassed and mortified at being British" had England defeated the US at football during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. "I was so relieved it was a draw because, you know, if Britain had beaten America, what with BP, which to my mind stands for bloody p***-poor."

This provoked an angry response in the UK, where British tabloid ''The Daily Mail'' accused her of being disloyal and cynically playing up to her American audience.

References in pop culture

The Mars Volta on their 2008 album The Bedlam in Goliath have a song called "Ilyena" that is named after Mirren. Mars Volta lyricist/singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala has stated an affinity for Mirren.

Filmography

+Film and television credits	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1967	''Herostratus''
1968	''''	Hermia
1969	''Red Hot Shot''
1969		Cora Ryan
1972	''Miss Julie''	Miss Julie
1972	''Savage Messiah''	Gosh Boyle
1973	''O Lucky Man!''	Patricia
1975	''Caesar and Claretta''	Claretta Petacci
1976	''Hamlet''	Ophelia (character)
1979	''''	Joanne
1979		[[Caesonia
1980	''Hussy''	Beaty
1980	''''	Alice Rage
1980	''''	Victoria
1981		Morgana
1984		Marcella
1984		Tanya Kirbuk
1984		Princess Amelia	TV series: 1 episode
1985	''Heavenly Pursuits''	Ruth Chancellor
1985	''Coming Through''	Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
1985		Galina Ivanova
1986	''''	Mother Fox
1988		Lydia Neuman
1989	''When the Whales Came''	Clemmie Jenkins
1989	''''	Georgina Spica
1990	''Bethune: The Making of a Hero''	Frances Penny Bethune
1990	''''	Caroline
1991		Jane Tennison	TV series
1991		Lilia Herriton
1993	''''	Annie Marsh
1993		Geruth
1994	''''
1995	''''	Snow Queen	(voice)
1996	''Some Mother's Son''	Kathleen Quigley	Also Associate Producer
1992	''Losing Chase''	Chase Phillips	TV
1997	''Critical Care''	Stella
1998	''Sidoglio Smithee''
1998	''''	The Queen	(voice)
1999	''''	Ayn Rand
1999	''Teaching Mrs. Tingle''	Mrs. Eve Tingle
2000	''Greenfingers''	Georgina Woodhouse
2001	''''	Doctor
2001		The Boss
2001	''Happy Birthday''	Distinguished Woman	Also Director
2001		Amy
2001	''Gosford Park''	Mrs. Wilson
2003	''''	Karen Stone	TV
2003	''Calendar Girls''	Chris Harper
2004	''''	Eileen Hayes
2004	''Raising Helen''	Dominique
2005	''''	Deep Thought	(voice)
2005
2005	''Shadowboxer''	Rose
2006	''''	Queen Elizabeth II
2007	''National Treasure: Book of Secrets''	Emily Appleton
2008		Elinor Loredan
2009		Cameron Lynne
2009	''''
2010	''Love Ranch''	Grace Bontempo
2010	''''
2010		Ida
2010		Victoria
2010	''Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole''	Nyra	(voice)
2011		Lillian Hobson
2011	''''	Rachel Singer

Further reading

''Command Performance'', a profile of Helen Mirren written by John Lahr in The New Yorker magazine, 2 October 2006

''In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures'' (autobiography) by Helen Mirren, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007 ISBN 978-0-297-85197-4.

*Rather than writing an autobiography Helen Mirren was commissioned by Alan Samson at Orion Books to write about her life in a series of chapters based on pictures from her extensive personal collection of photography and memorabilia. Edited by Chris Worwood, with whom she worked on the Award-winning HBO series ''Elizabeth'', the book covers every aspect of her life from her aristocratic Russian heritage to her days with Peter Hall's RSC company to her Academy Award for ''The Queen''.

References

External links

Official website

Helen Mirren at the MBC Encyclopedia of Television

Helen Mirren Biography at Tiscali

The Helen Mirren Appreciation Society, official fan club

Arifa Akbar, "Helen Mirren: The good, the bad and The Queen", (interview), ''The Independent'' (London), 27 May 2007

Kevin Maher, ''Dame Helen Mirren: I'm an Essex Girl'' (interview), ''The Times'' (London), 12 February 2010

Morley Safer profile of Helen Mirren on ''CBS'' ''60 Minutes'', 7 January 2007

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