Helen Mirren
British actor Helen Mirren was a well-recognized name in theater early in life, but her face was hardly known to the rest of the world. In the 1980s, she dabbled in films and television, but her breakout TV role didn’t come until she was in her mid-40s and played Jane Tennison in the British TV series “Prime Suspect.”
She was nominated for Oscars in 1994 and 2001, and then reached mega-celebrity status at age 61 when she starred in the 2006 drama “The Queen,” winning an Oscar for Best Actress and achieving the “Triple Crown of Acting” (Tony, Emmy, and an Oscar).
A palm reader predicted her future when she was young, according to Mirren: “He said, ‘You will have success in your life—you will be very successful—but you won’t reach your pinnacle of success until later on in your life, after you’re 40 … and he was right.”
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I spent a decade in Hollywood mostly as an extra then a stand in.