Helen Mirren, who turns 80 on July 26, 2025, has been happily married to her husband, director Taylor Hackford, for 27 years.

Helen Mirren celebrates her 80th birthday with husband Taylor Hackford. A look at their 27-year marriage, life together, and ...

Rio Hackford, the older son of Oscar-winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford and a prominent club owner who acted in Treme, Swingers, Jonah Hex and American Crime Story, has died. He was 51.

Taylor Hackford is a veteran Hollywood filmmaker, but to get the life story of Ray Charles to the screen he had to schlep as hard as any young wannabe. The director of “Ray” came to the area ...

I'm very happy.' Director Taylor Hackford, right, with Jamie Foxx, the star of "Ray," a dream project that took the 59-year-old Hackford 15 years to bring to the screen.

Hackford wasn’t the only person bowled over by the show, which subsequently transferred to Hollywood’s Matrix Theatre and won the 2008 Ovation Award for best musical in an intimate theater.

Helen Mirren was 52 when she married her husband Taylor Hackford in 1997. Mirren had vowed when she was younger that she would never wed, but clearly meeting Hackford changed her mind.

Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford have been together for more than 30 years, but their first encounter didn't go smoothly. The Oscar winner and the Ray director met in 1985 while Hackford was ...

Taylor Hackford is a veteran director who, over his 45-plus-year career, has created some of Hollywood's most memorable works. Finding notice in the late 1970s by winning an Oscar for his short ...

Impressed by the sweat-soaked stage performance of writer-actors Smith (who is not related to her character and namesake) and Broder, Hackford asked if he could get involved with their show. They ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Ray helmer Taylor Hackford has been set to direct Signal Hill, the working title of the drama that will star Anthony Mackie as attorney Johnnie Cochran. Long before he ...