Helen Mirren to receive lifetime achievement award at the Berlinale

UK actress Helen Mirren is to receive the honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 70^th Berlin International Film Festival.

The Oscar-winning actress will also be the subject of an homage featuring several of her films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Good Liar, The Last Station and The Long Good Friday.

Mirren will receive the award on February 27 at a ceremony that will also include a screening of Stephen Frears’ The Queen, for which she won the Oscar and Golden Globe for best actress in 2007.

She was last at the Berlinale in 2015, alongside co-star Ryan Reynolds, with Woman In Gold.

Mirren was most-recently on screen in HBO-Sky drama Catherine The Great and alongside Ian McKellen in thriller The Good Liar, which recently opened in Germany. Her upcoming features including Fast & Furious 9, reprising her role as the savvy mother of Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw.

The 70^th Berlinale will run February 20 to March 1, which is later than usual to accommodate next year’s Academy Awards, which shifted to an earlier date.

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