Age: 64
Character: Sofya Tolstoy in The Last Station
Film: Set in the last tumultuous years of Leo Tolstoy's life, the historical biopic centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Cherkov.
Torn between his professed codtrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home.
Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.
Previous Golden Globe Wins: Mirren has three previous Golden Globe wins two for TV for Losing Chase and Elizabeth I.
In 2006 she also collected best Actress in a Drama award for her performance in The Queen.
Previous Golden Globe Nominations: She collected a further nomination for Prime Suspect: The Final Act.
Awards/Nominations for performance: Helen Mirren won the Best Actress award at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival.
She has also been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award.
Critics: “Mirren gives a forceful performance, showing the depths of Sofya’s feeling toward her husband as well as her fury as Chertkov and others come between them.” - Box Office Magazine
“Helen Mirren is a lusty, roaring wonder playing, of all things, the long-suffering wife of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.” - Rolling Stone
“Every second Helen Mirren is on-screen in The Last Station is a study in peerless talent.” USA Today
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
Tagged in Helen Mirren Golden Globes