In The Frame: An Interview With Helen Mirren

Actress Helen Mirren began her career with the National Youth Theater in Great Britain in 1965, and four decades later is still packing in audiences at cinemas and playhouses around the world. Best known to American audiences for her Academy Award-winning turn as Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 feature film "The Queen," Mirren is out with a new autobiography entitled "In The Frame: My Life In Words And Pictures" (Atria Books 2008) . Packed full of scrapbook photos from Mirren's personal collection, "In The Frame" traces the twists and turns of her life from her childhood in Essex to her self-described "amazing year" playing the British Monarch and wrapping a successful run on the detective series "Prime Suspect." Mirren spoke to The Huffington Post about her book, and a selection of her observations are below: On why she decided to write an autobiography at this point in her career: Well really it was encouragement by a friend of mine. I had been approached to write an autobiography over ... (link)