Celebrities You Never Knew Changed Their Names

Helen Mirren – Real Name: Helen Lydia Mirren Hackford

Helen Mirren is an English actress best known for playing Detective Jane Tennison on the television series “Prime Suspect” from the early ’90s to the mid-’00s. She’s well recognized for her Oscar-winning performance as Elizabeth II in The Queen in 2006.

When she was nine years old, her father, a member of the Russian aristocracy, legally changed the family surname to Mirren. Some of her other major film roles since her breakthrough part in “The Long Good Friday” in 1980 include “Woman in Gold,” “Hitchcock,” “Red,” and the “Fast and Furious” films, including the 2021 sequel, “F9.”

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