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WATCH: Helen Mirren: ‘Having worked on kibbutz in Israel made me the actress I am’

 

Award winning super-actress received Achievement Award at Israel Film Festival in Beverly Hills, revealing the impact of her time on Israeli kibbutz shortly after the Six Day War.

By Ari Yashar

 

Academy Award, Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren was honored at the 29th Israel Film Festival on Wednesday at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, where she revealed how her first visit to the Jewish state shaped her career.

Mirren was honored with the Career Achievement Award at the festival, and while there she said her time working at an Israeli kibbutz shortly after the 1967 Six Day War “made me the actress I am.”  Continue Reading »