Dame Helen Mirren is to portray Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Broadway.
The 67-year-old actress’ play ‘The Audience’ is to transfer from London’s West End to New York next year, though no other members of the cast for the new production have yet been announced.
The production imagines the private meetings between the monarch – who Helen previously also played in 2006 movie ‘The Queen’ – and all her prime ministers over her 60-year reign.
It will open on 8 March and run until 28 June at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Helen – who won an Oscar for her role in ‘The Queen’ and prizes at the Olivier and Evening Standard awards for ‘The Audience’ – has previously appeared in two Broadway shows, ‘A Month in the Country’ and ‘Dance of Death’, with both earning her Tony award nominations.
Meanwhile, the ‘Hundred-Foot Journey’ actress has admitted she gets stricken with nerves whenever she meets the queen and ends up behaving like a babbling "idiot".
She said: "When you meet the queen, a lot of people get immediately attacked with this appalling virus called ‘Queenitis’.
"Which means you’re incapable of making a single comment that sounds remotely natural. And you don’t know what to do with your hands. And you babble like an idiot. Or you say nothing at all. And then, thank God, she moves on and you’re relieved."
Helen Mirren to play Queen Elizabeth on Broadway
