The 2014 recipient of the Hasty Pudding Award will be Dame Helen Mirren. The award is an annual tradition for Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals and honors both men and women in the theater and film world.
“How very saucy of the Hasty Pudding organisation to offer me their award,” Mirren said in a statement. “As someone who adores Pudding in all its manifestations... Suet, Christmas, Treacle, Bread and Butter, Yorkshire, Plum, Figgy, etc., etc., I am so looking forward to the famous Hasty Pudding.”
Mirren will be honored on Jan. 30 starting at 2:45 p.m. with a parade through Cambridge, Mass. She will be presented with the award at 4 p.m. and hold a press conference afterwards. That night, the Hasty Pudding cast will perform songs. The Woman of the Year award is organized by The Related Companies.
Mirren, 68, is a celebrated actress, having won an Oscar for The Queen in 2007. She played Queen Elizabeth II again in the acclaimed production of The Audience, which earned her an Olivier Award in April 2013.
She recently appeared in Red 2 and HBO’s Phil Spector. She also provided the voice of Dean Hardscrabble in Monsters University.
The Hasty Pudding Man of the Year will be honored on Feb. 7.
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