Which English actor known for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" starred in "The Cook, the Theif, His Wife & Her Lover"?
Helen Mirren Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ("née" Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen". She received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in "The Audience", in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II, and in 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway performance in the play. "The Audience" was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote "The Queen". Mirren won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994 and her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series "Prime Suspect", which ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006.
Samantha Giles Samantha Elizabeth Giles (born 2 July 1971 in Maidstone) is an English actress, probably best known for playing Bernice Blackstock in "Emmerdale" (1998–2002 and 2004 and returned to the role in 2012, a role which earned her a TV Quick Award for Best Actress and a nomination for a National Television Awards for Most Popular Actress (both in 2000), and Sally Boothe in "Where the Heart Is" (2003–2005). Giles stated that she left Emmerdale as it was too much of a commute to her home.