10 of Helen Mirren’s Leading Men
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Queen of Hearts
In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
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John Lynch
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989): Mirren plays Georgina, a woman who engages in a secret love affair with a bookseller named Michael (Howard) at the restaurant her barbaric gangster husband (Michael Gambon) owns. When the affair is discovered, things don’t go well, to say the least.
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Alan Howard
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999): In this made-for-TV movie, novelist Ayn Rand (Mirren) has an affair with psychologist Nathaniel Branden (Stoltz), who’s 25 years her junior. Stoltz later told Billboard magazine that working with Mirren was a humbling experience: “It’s like all of a sudden you’re playing tennis with Andre Agassi.”
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Nigel Hawthorne
Shadowboxer (2005): Gooding and Mirren play partners in crime in this thriller. Mikey (Gooding), a hired killer, works alongside his lover and stepmother, Rose (Mirren). Then Rose, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, balks at carrying out a hit against a woman in labor.
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Eric Stoltz
Love Ranch (2010): Mirren and fellow Oscar winner Pesci costar as Charlie and Grace Bontempo (based on real-life husband and wife Joe and Sally Conforte), the married couple who operated the first legal brothel in Nevada. The film was directed by Mirren’s real-life husband, Taylor Hackford.
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
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Alamy
James Cromwell
In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
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Joe Pesci - Love Ranch (2010)
In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
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Alamy
Anthony Hopkins
In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
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Om Puri
In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
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In her new film, Collateral Beauty (costarring Will Smith), Helen Mirren represents the concept of death, but she has a softer side, too. Here’s a look back at her notable romantic roles — and the actors who played opposite her.
