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Meet Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff and bow to a career of real theatre, elegance, poise, and dedication. It takes a real vision to develop a life of mastery and real sense of identity. What we love about Helen Mirren...

Yes, because that is her “British” name. Of Tsarist Aristocratic descent, Helen Mirren is the daughter of Vasily and English Kate Rogers. Somehow her grandfather got “stuck” in London in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. Then came Helen: a mysterious mix of Russian beauty and British “smartness”.

If of late we couldn't but applaud her “fun” side, playing Hobson in Arthur (2011), an out of the ordinary nanny who can deal with multi-millionaire baby-man Russell Brandt, another originally male role Prospero (for H.M. Prospera) in The Tempest has us yet again stick to our seats in admiration.

We are not applauding a career of glitz and gossip, drama and passion, inhuman physical transformation, but a lesson we must take home: what's is the worth of a real life of dedication, what sums up a real identity and personality.

We wouldn't expect Helen Mirren to get lost in drugs and alcohol because she is not being cast anymore. Times have changed, but even more so for Helen Mirren whom most of us noticed with Calendar Girls and of course “The Queen” for which she won an Oscar.

It is not however a strict composure, a strict sense of elegance. There is something innately Russian about the British Actress, a sense of humor that is strikingly sexy at any age. A sense of style that kicks any girl of twenty something right out off her blog post.

We wouldn't mind seing Helen Mirren on the runway. Or have her give us some advice on what to wear and age with grace.

A Fanny Ardant from the other side of the English Channel.

A very elaborate career made of Shakspeare, the stage, couple of decades of serious acting. Yes, because acting is a real job in England. Where at some point it comes as a very due reward to be living the stardom status so far along in one's career.

A new status that she takes on with a love-my-job attitude, some surprise and real enjoyment (maybe why she sparkles with beauty), and again poise.

A real Queen one must say, after all she played this role six times: : The Queen (2006), "Elizabeth I" (2005), The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Snow Queen (1995), King George (1994), and Caligula (1979).
Recipient of the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award. Receiver of a 5 minute standing ovation at the Venice Festival in 2006 for her portrayal of The Queen.
An anti-monarchist at heart on 5 December 2003, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). An honor she had once refused. In 2003 she admitted she wasn't sure if she should accept but then her pride got the baser of her.
For this kind of revelations we find her sensual, fun, and striking.

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