The award was presented by Kate Winslet during the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
On Sunday,Helen Mirrenwas feted for her acting career by theScreen Actors Guild.
While accepting her award, she celebrated the tribe of actors as “rogues and vagabonds.”
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“She continues to fly the flag for women above the age of 45,” Winslet said.
“It is you actors I want to thank for your wit and your humor, all the giggles.
I’ve laughed my whole life.
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Your hopeless dedication to our chosen profession.
I get really p’d off when I hear about actors being maligned as a group…
When in my experience, the opposite is true.
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We love and admire each other’s work.
Together we laugh, we worry, we change clothes, we throw up, and we suffer diarrhea.
I mean, I do.”
“I felt the ghosts of all those ancient Greeks and vagabonds,” she said.
“I felt at one with them, actors.
I’m sorry, you’re a magnificent tribe, stretching across history, culture, and time.
This is for the actors; thank you.”
“Dame Helen Mirren is quite simply a brilliant and luminous talent.
I’ve always felt a kinship with Helen.”
Offscreen, Mirren is a dedicated philanthropist.
