Helen Mirren hates the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.


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The Oscar-winning actress – who lives in Los Angeles with husband Taylor Hickford – is not interested in walking the red carpets because she prefers to concentrate on her career.

She said: “I do live in Hollywood with my husband, but I can’t be doing all that partying stuff. I just do the work I’m asked to do and that’s it.”

Helen – who starred as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth I in hit TV miniseries Elizabeth I and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 movie The Queen – also revealed she is ready to take on another regal character.

She added to Britain’s BBC Radio 2: “I’d love to play Queen Catherine of Russia next – another queen! She was a very interesting character.”

Queen Catherine II of Russia reigned as the Empress of Russia for 34 years from June 1762 until she died in 1796. She never married but had a series of lovers, including Sergei Saltykov who was the father of her son Paul.