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Helen Mirren to Be Honored at Monte Carlo TV Fest

Helen Mirren on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”

Helen Mirren is set to receive yet another well-deserved award. The Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winner will take home the Monte Carlo Television Festival’s Crystal Nymph at a ceremony to be held June 20. The career honor will be presented to the “Woman in Gold” star by Monaco’s reigning royal, Prince Albert II, The Hollywood Reporter writes.

While Mirren is best known as a film actress, her breakout role was playing Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the procedural drama “Prime Suspect” on the small screen. The British series first debuted in 1991, but Mirren reprised the role as recently as 2006. A “Prime Suspect” reboot is in the works starring Stefanie Martini (“Doctor Thorne”) as a young Tennison. Mirren received five Emmy nods for the project and took home the honor in 1996. Her other award-winning TV credits include HBO’s “Elizabeth I” and “Phil Spector.”

“Since its inception, the Monte Carlo Television Festival has been a strong advocate and supporter of the international television business across both drama and documentary programming,” Mirren said in a statement.

“The Queen” star has repeatedly spoken out against sexism and ageism in the entertainment industry. When Mirren was asked about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s admission that, at 37, she was “too old” to play a 55-year-old man’s love interest, she responded bluntly: “It’s fucking outrageous. Fucking outrageous. It’s ridiculous, honestly. It’s so annoying.” She suggested that the double standards for aging male and female actors are nothing new, saying, “We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It’s so annoying.”

“Trumbo,” “Eye in the Sky,” and “The Hundred-Foot Journey” are among Mirren’s recent film credits.

The Monte Carlo TV Fest will run June 16–20 in Monaco.

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