Oscar, Emmy, and BAFTA Award winner Helen Mirren is being honored yet again. She’s been named as this year’s recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award, given annually to the actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.” Deadline confirmed the news.
Mirren will be presented with the prize at the SAG Awards, set to take place February 27. She’s following in the footsteps of Life Achievement Winners such as Rita Moreno, Mary Tyler Moore, and Ruby Dee. Per the source, Mirren is “the most decorated SAG Life Achievement recipient with a total of 13 SAG nominations and five SAG Actor wins to her name.”
“I am honored to have been chosen to receive the SAG Life Achievement Award,” said Mirren. “Since I was a young actor starting out, I have always been inspired by and learned from American screen acting, so this award is particularly meaningful for me.”
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher added, “Dame Helen Mirren is quite simply a brilliant and luminous talent. Her work runs the gamut of characters from a not-so-retired CIA super-killer and a ruthless Russian spy handler to a Hungarian cleaning lady and the most exquisite Elizabeth II. She has set the bar very high for all actors and, in role after role, she exceeds even her own extraordinary performances. I’ve always felt a kinship with Helen. She’s the Queen of England and I’m the Queen of Queens. She won an Oscar and I’m left-hander of the year. It’s uncanny. And, it is my deep, personal honor to be the first to congratulate Helen as the 57th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.”
A four-time Oscar nominee, Mirren took home the prize for “The Queen.” “Solos” and “F9: The Fast Saga” are among her recent credits, and her upcoming slate includes “Golda,” a biopic about Israel’s first female prime minister, Golda Meir.
