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Helen Mirren, Sam Mendes, Daniel Radcliffe, Samantha Barks, Sam Claflin, Ian McKellen and more were honored during the Jameson Empire Awards 2013 at Grosvenor House on March 24, 2013 in London, England.

Renowned for being one of the most laid-back awards shows in the British movie calendar, the Jameson Empire Awards are chosen by readers of Empire Magazine, who vote for their favorites.

All hail "The Queen"!

Actress Helen Mirren took director Sam Mendes to task for not citing any female influences in his acceptance speech at the Jameson Empire Awards.

Helen Mirren walked the red carpet at the 2013 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) on February 10 sporting a new look -- pink hair!

The 67-year-old Oscar-winning actress explained the reason behind the new hairdo to reporters at the ceremony.

For the 24th year in a row, Hollywood's biggest stars packed up and headed to the desert for the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, and Naomi Watts were just a few of the A-Listers to attend the big gala.

Dame Helen Mirren has signed on to portray Queen Elizabeth again, in a London stage production of "The Audience."

Mirren won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 film, "The Queen." She will reprise the role in the new play, which was written by "Queen" scribe Peter Morgan.

Ellen DeGeneres and Helen Mirren were named among the celebrities who will be honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for 2013, the Walk of Fame Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced on Friday in a live press conference.

Stars in the arenas of Motion Pictures, Television, Radio and Recording were selected to receive stars among hundreds of nominations to the committee at a meeting held on June 15 and approved by the Chamber's Board of Directors.

Scarlett Johansson is set to star in the new film "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho,'" alongside Oscar winners Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Helen Mirren.

Johansson, 27, will play actress Janet Leigh, who portrayed Marion Crane in the Oscar-nominated 1960 thriller, her spokesperson confirmed to OnTheRedCarpet.com on Friday, March 2. Hopkins has been cast as Hitchcock himself, while Mirren will play his wife, Alma, according to Variety, which first reported the news. James D'Arcy will play Leigh's co-star, Anthony Perkins, who played murderer Norman Bates in the original film, which contains an iconic naked shower scene.

Jessica Chastain seemed to have come out of nowhere with three major movies - "The Help," "The Tree of Life" and "The Debt" which all opened this summer, but the actress insists it was purely accidental.

"I didn't plan it like this," Chastain said at the premiere of "The Debt," in an interview provided by Focus Features. "I've been making movies for about four and a half years and they kept getting delayed and my heart kept getting broken when I thought, 'What's happening? When are people going to be able to see my films?' And now, for some strange reason, they all are coming out at the same time, so it's great! Now, this is like the big pay-off!"

Dame Helen Mirren, who plays a retired Israeli spy and Nazi hunter in her new film, has played strong women in movies in the past but says she ultimately is drawn to "complex" characters with weaknesses.

In her new film, the thriller "The Debt," the 66-year-old plays Rachel Singer, who once worked as a Mossad agent and is haunted by one of her past missions.

Dame Helen Mirren, who plays a retired Israeli spy and Nazi hunter in her new film, has played strong women in movies in the past but says she ultimately is drawn to "complex" characters with weaknesses.

In her new film, the thriller "The Debt," the 66-year-old plays Rachel Singer, who once worked as a Mossad agent and is haunted by one of her past missions.