The roles of Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Elizabeth I that Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren played in movies including 2010, Calendar Girls, Woman in Gold, Red, The Fate of the Furious, and many others have made her a household name. It makes sense that people would be curious about Helen’s personal life, given her long and successful work.
Fans are curious about Helen Mirren’s real-life husband as she plays Harrison Ford’s on-screen spouse in the Yellowstone prequel spinoff 1923. Who is the husband of Helen Mirren? Do they have any kids together? What you should know is as follows.
Helen Mirren is married to fellow actor Taylor Hackford!
Helen previously dated the actor Liam Neeson from 1980 to 1985. They allegedly met in 1981 while filming Excalibur, and Liam attributes her with helping him land his first agency. However, shortly after their breakup, Helen started dating Taylor Hackford, an American director she had met while working on the 1985 movie White Nights.
Helen explained why they dated for almost ten years before being hitched in an interview with AARP in 2016. “Until I met Taylor, I had made a conscious decision to put my career above my relationships. I had met Taylor at the somewhat ripe old age of 38.”
Helen added, “We got married in the end because we realized that we were going to be together forever. We got married, ultimately, for legal reasons more than anything else. Estate planning and other complicated things like that. And our families, we sensed, wanted us to be married. I always said I have nothing against marriage; it just wasn’t to my taste, like turnips. It took me a very long time to come round to acquiring the taste. I just had to meet the right turnip.”
According to the Telegraph, Helen, and Taylor were wed in 1997 at the Ardersier Parish Church in the Scottish Highlands, close to Inverness. Taylor’s 1979 short film Teenage Father earned him an Academy Award, just like Helen is a skilled actress with an Order of the British Empire and an Oscar to his credit. His second movie, an Officer and a Gentleman received five Academy Award nominations. Even for two terms, Taylor presided over the Director’s Guild of America!
Do Helen Mirren And Taylor Hackford Have Any Kids?
Although Taylor and Helen don’t have any children together, Rio Hackford and Alexander Hackford, who are Taylor’s children from prior marriages, adopted Helen as their stepmother. Rio Taylor was an actor who appeared in many television programs, such as Pam & Tommy, The Mandalorian, Treme, American Crime Story, and True Detective.
Rio sadly passed away in 2022 from uveal melanoma at 51. Helen and Taylor said they were “both inspired by the life of our son and stepson, Rio Hackford, and grieved by his loss” in a statement to People.
“His life showed us how to live in generosity and community,” they added. “He shared his life’s journey with so many who now mourn him and at the same time, celebrate their fortune in knowing him.”
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