Vasily
Petrovich
Mironoff
Born in Kuryanovo, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Olga (Mironov) Dawson
Husband of
Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers
— married
1938 in Hammersmith Registration District, London, England
Father of
[private daughter (1940s - unknown)], Helen (Mironoff) Mirren DBE and Peter Basil Mironoff
Died
at about age 67
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Jan 2016
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Biography
Vasily anglicised the family name to Mirren in the 1950s and changed his name to Basil Mirren.[1] He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a taxi cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. [2]
He married Kathleen "Kitty" Alexandrina Eva Matilda (née Rogers) and they were the parents of award winning actress Helen Mirren.[3][4]
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