MY LIFE IN 10 PICTURES HELEN MIRREN
Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood in London, Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov – better known as Helen Mirren – got dubbed “Pop” by her family because of her penchant to “pop off into dreams”, she says. “I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers’ training college.”
Helen learnt soon enough the classroom wasn’t for her, and went
