Dame Helen Mirren and Kylie Minogue are amongst eight ladies honoured with their very own Barbie likenesses forward of International Women’s Day.
Actress Dame Helen, the 78-year-old star of The Queen, Elizabeth I, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, the TV collection Prime Suspect and the narrator of the Barbie film, has been chosen as a UK Barbie function mannequin by the toy’s maker Mattel.
She mentioned she was “absolutely blown away” by the information.
“It’s a very special thing and something I can add to my list of my favourite achievements – becoming a Dame of the British Empire, having an Oscar, having a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and having my own Barbie,” she mentioned.
The one-of-a-kind doll recreates the outfit Dame Helen wore at Cannes final yr: a cornflower blue robe by Del Core, and jewelry by Bulgari, together with blue hair and a fan.
The doll can be clutching a miniature Oscar statue, in recognition of Dame Helen’s 2007 Academy Awards greatest actress win for The Queen.
“I love that the Barbie doll is wearing one of my favourite-ever red carpet looks,” Dame Helen mentioned.
“It was the first time I’d ever had blue hair and it felt so exciting.
“I prefer to embrace theatrical trend and the enjoyment that having enjoyable with trend can convey, and I feel that this pleasure must be ageless.”
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To mark Barbie’s sixty fifth anniversary yr, Mirren is amongst eight ladies recognised for shaping the long run by means of their inspiring tales, each recognised with a doll made of their likeness.
The different ladies are Australian singer Kylie Minogue; Canadian singer Shania Twain; German comic and activist Enissa Amani; Mexican director, producer and screenwriter Lila Aviles; American artist, activist, writer and producer Viola Davis; Japanese mannequin Nicole Fujita; and content material creator from the Tatuyo Amazonas indigenous neighborhood, Maira Gomez.
Krista Berger, senior vice chairman and world head of Barbie and Dolls, mentioned: “Barbie’s story has never been just about her.
“It’s in regards to the numerous younger women she’s impressed, and the thousands and thousands of tales she helped them think about alongside the way in which.”
Previous Barbie function mannequin dolls have included likenesses of British Olympic skateboard medallist Sky Brown, COVID vaccine developer Professor Sarah Gilbert, sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, boxer Nicola Adams, tennis participant Naomi Osaka and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
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