You can probably count out Leading Actress nominees who starred in tonight’s Best Film winner from succeeding at the Oscars: in the past 10 years, only once did the Academy Award winner play a leading role in the Best Film at the Baftas – Dame Helen Mirre (AP)
Dame Helen Mirren is returning to royal duty to play the Queen on the west end stage.
The actress, who won an Oscar for her lead role in the 2006 film The Queen, will star in The Audience, which reunites her with the film's writer Peter Morgan and is based on the monarch's weekly audience with the Prime Minister.
The play imagines the meetings, which are held in the strictest confidence, between the Queen and political leaders from Winston Churchill to David Cameron.
It will be directed by Billy Elliot film-maker Stephen Daldry and will run at the Gielgud Theatre from February.
PA
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