Helen Mirren

Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff on 26 July 1945 at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the Hammersmith district of London to an English mother and Russian father. Her mother, Kathleen "Kitty" Alexandrina Eva Matilda, was a working-class woman from West Ham, the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher whose own father was the butcher to Queen Victoria.