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Helen Mirren to receive the Shakespeare Medal from The Shakespeare Society

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 04:21 pm EDT 05/05/15

Dame Helen Mirren to receive the Shakespeare Medal Lily Rabe to receive Linda Gross Playing Shakespeare Award from New York City’s The Shakespeare Society at Third annual Playing Shakespeare Celebration, June 1, 6pm at The Players Club. On June 1 from 6-8 pm, The Shakespeare Society will host their third annual Playing Shakespeare Celebration at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South). The Shakespeare Medal will be presented to Dame Helen Mirren, and The Linda Gross Playing Shakespeare Award will be presented to Lily Rabe. The Shakespeare Medal is awarded in recognition of extraordinary contribution to the appreciation of the Bard. Previous recipients include Professor Harold Bloom, Claire Bloom, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Peter Hall, Christopher Plummer, Michael Kahn, Richard Easton, and Sir Kenneth Branagh. The Linda Gross Playing Shakespeare Award is in recognition of Linda Gross, and her enduring commitment to the theater, actors, and Shakespeare in performance. It is given to a promising young actor in the early years of their career playing Shakespeare, to encourage them to become honest guardians of Shakespeare's plays. The inaugural award was given in 2013, and previous recipients include Jacob Fishel and Hamish Linklater. Ticket holders will join special guests for cocktails, canapés, a silent auction, and awards. The online auction accompanying the event will conclude at the end of the evening. TICKETS are $150 ($113 tax-deductible) and can be purchased online at http://shakespearesociety.org/events.html or by calling (212) 967-6802. For additional information, contact Michelle Palmour mpalmour@shakespearesociety.org or (212) 967-6802. The Shakespeare Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the enjoyment, understanding, and appreciation of William Shakespeare’s works through performance, commentary, and educational activities. A portion of the Society’s membership dollars is used to support educational activities in New York City Schools. HELEN MIRREN has won international recognition for her work on stage, screen and television. For her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 of The Queen, she received an Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award®, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She was also named Best Actress by virtually every critic's organization from Los Angeles to London. In 2014 she was honored with the BAFTA Fellowship for her outstanding career in film. Mirren can also currently be seen on the Broadway stage, reprising of her role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, directed by Stephen Daldry, for which she received a Tony nomination. Mirren began her career in the role of Cleopatra at the National Youth Theatre. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she starred in such productions as Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth. In 1972, she joined renowned director Peter Brook's theatre company and toured the world. Mirren earned her first Oscar® nomination for her portrayal of Queen Charlotte in Nicholas Hytner's The Madness of King George, for which she also won Best Actress honors at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Her second Oscar® nomination came for her work in Robert Altman's 2001 film Gosford Park. Her performance as the housekeeper also brought her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations, several critics groups' awards, and dual SAG Awards®, one for Best Supporting Actress and a second as part of the winning ensemble cast. Most recently, Mirren earned both Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for her performance in The Last Station, playing Sofya Tolstoy. Among her other film credits are The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor. Mirren has also worked extensively in the theatre. Most recently reprising her role of Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience in London's West End, for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress. She also received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Mourning Becomes Electra at London's National Theatre. In 2009, Mirren returned to the National Theatre to star in the title role in Phèdre, directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner. Helen Mirren became a Dame of the British Empire in 2003. LILY RABE will star in Cymbeline this summer at The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. She appeared last summer as Beatrice in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the 2012 Park production of As You Like It as Rosalind, and the 2010 Park production of The Merchant of Venice as Portia, opposite Al Pacino. She has starred on Broadway in Seminar (Drama League nomination), The Merchant of Venice (Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations; Callaway Award), The American Plan, Heartbreak House (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Callaway Award), and Steel Magnolias (Drama Desk nomination). Her Off-Broadway and regional credits include Miss Julie, A Doll's House, Crimes of the Heart, Colder Than Here, Proof, and others. Rabe’s upcoming film credits include Pawn Sacrificedirected by Ed Zwick and The Veil. Other film credits include All Good Things, Letters from the Big Man, Weakness, Aftermath, What Just Happened, The Toe Tactic, No Reservations, A Crime, Mona Lisa Smile, Never Again, andBeyond Redemption. She has been in all four seasons of Ryan Murphy's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated FX series “American Horror Story” (for which she received a 2012 Critics Choice Nomination) and recurs on “The Good Wife.” Additionally she stars in the upcoming series "The Whispers" produced by Steven Spielberg.

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