From solving crimes on British TV, playing Queen Elizabeth, to actually becoming knighted by the British Queen, Dame Helen Mirren does not seem to be slowing down.

The 69-year-old actress is coming to New York's Broadway with "The Audience." Mirren will play Elizabeth II alongside British thespians Geoffrey Beevers and Michael Elwyn, as well as Richard McCabe and Rufus Wright will also be in the play about Elizabeth II. "The Audience" will debut in the Winter 2015 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Deadline reported. It is a Stephen Daldry production of Peter Morgan's play.

"The Audience" is about Elizabeth II and her life. In the play, Elizabeth II meets 12 Prime Ministers in a weekly "audience" at Buckingham Palace. The politicians who would have met Elizabeth II were instructed not to repeat what they said in the private chambers. "The Audience" will imagine a series of those meetings at pivotal moments in time.

"The Audience" is scheduled to start on Feb. 17, 2015, with opening night on March 8, 2015. It is expected to run until June 28, 2015.

Mirren is no stranger to playing real life figures; she performed in a play with the same name at the West End Theater in London.

She's also adept in dealing with real life situations. In the wake of the recent photo hacking scandal that resulted in nude photos of A-list celebrities -- mostly female -- being leaked online, Mirren had something tongue-and-cheek to say.

"I was rather insulted my phone wasn't hacked, actually. I kept desperately looking at the list of people whose phones were hacked, hoping to see my name," Mirren said according to Huffington Post.

Mirren went on to say that she could not understand why anyone would store nude photos on their phone.

"I think we're all in a learning curve about what is appropriate to put on your phone and what isn't, and I think people will be far more careful in the future," she said. "It's insulting and stupid to hack phones."

Mirren's advice on the whole thing?

"The best thing is to be superior and not take it too seriously," she said.

In addition, Mirren can always trust in her movie career. In her latest film "The Hundred-Foot Journey," she played the role of French restaurateur Madame Mallory, the Chicago Tribune reported. Speaking in French was one of the reasons why Mirren took the role, but DreamWorks' final decision was to film it in English.

At the beginning of the film shoot, Mirren said they were doing scenes in English and French.

"I shot most scenes in French and in English, hoping they would use the French, but they didn't," Mirren said. "But I did poke in as much French as I could."

Mirren did fight hard to have the film in French, but the Oscar winner said that she understands the "realities of the movie industry."

"The reality is that it's a Disney movie," Mirren said. "The other reality is that the vast American public will not accept films with subtitles. People in Ohio have to go and see the movie."

"The Hundred-Foot Journey" was produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. It opened on Aug. 8.

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