Helen Mirren – on a Leonine peak

The indomitable Helen Mirren is 80 and not only still going strong but has a super-abundance of films on offer this year because of the covid pile-up – the second series of 1923 with Harrison Ford, the London gangland series MobLand and is now back alongside Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie for Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club.  She was born 26 July 1945 2am London with a Russian father from an exiled aristocratic family who escaped the Revolution