Helen Mirren has been nominated for a Tony award for her performance as the Queen in The Audience.

The actress, who won an Oscar playing the monarch in The Queen, is nominated for the best actress in a play award along with fellow British stars Carey Mulligan and Ruth Wilson.

(Jimi Celeste/AP)
Carey Mulligan (Jimi Celeste/AP)

Wolf Hall star Ben Miles is nominated for the best actor award for his role as Thomas Cromwell in the play based on Hilary Mantel’s best-selling novels.

He is shortlisted alongside stars including Elephant Man star Bradley Cooper.

Helen Mirren as The Queen in The Audience (Johan Persson)
Helen Mirren as The Queen in The Audience (Johan Persson)

The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, is inspired by the private weekly meetings between the Queen and Britain’s prime ministers – 12 in all – over her six-decade reign.

It has been a critical and commercial success in both London and New York

The Tony Awards will be presented at a ceremony on Sunday June 7 which will be hosted by Alan Cumming and American actress Kristin Chenoweth.