Per The Hollywood Reporter, fellow British acting icon Kate Winslet is set to present Dame Helen Mirren with the 2021 SAG Life Achievement Award, at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards. The honor is historically bestowed upon “an actor who fosters the finest ideals of the acting profession,” so Mirren — who has won Oscars, Emmy and Tony Awards for her work over the years — more than fits the bill. Winslet has also been nominated at the SAG Awards, for leading pandemic favorite “Mare of Easttown” (which won her an Oscar in 2021). According to The Hollywood Reporter, both women costarred in the 2016 film “Collateral Beauty.”
As Variety reported, Mirren is the 57th recipient of the SAG’s highest honor, which is typically awarded to someone who’s excelled both in their career and their humanitarian work. Previous notable recipients include Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Lily Tomlin. “Dame Helen Mirren is quite simply a brilliant and luminous talent,” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said of actress. “She has set the bar very high for all actors and, in role after role, she exceeds even her own extraordinary performances.”
