Dame Helen Mirren is the queen of the 2026 Golden Globes.
The Queen star was recognized for her decades-long film career with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Eve primetime special, and she made a hilarious NSFW joke about the importance of the recognition she’s received from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association over the years while accepting her trophy during the show, which aired Jan. 8 on CBS.
“This organization has held a little piece of my heart, as it was the very first organization in America to give me an award,” Helen said on stage during her speech, recalling that she won her first Golden Globe for her performance in 1996’s Losing Chase. “As eccentric as that group was, they noticed a small piece called Losing Chase that was way under the radar, and gave me a beautiful golden ball. Then they followed it with another, and I was the proud owner of two large balls, which, as you can imagine, really helped me in my career.”
And the 80-year-old—who has been married to Taylor Hackford since 1997—acknowledged that her long-running success in Hollywood wasn’t achieved all on her own, shouting out costars including Will Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Al Pacino and Bruce Willis.
“The DeMille Award was described to me as a career recognition,” she added, “but I prefer to think of it as a life lived, a life survived, a life enjoyed, a life sweated, and a life carried on hopefully.”
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