Helen Mirren is ethereal in beaded dress at London film dinner

Helen Mirren looks stunning yet again, this time at a British Film Institute dinner at London’s fancy Claridge’s Hotel.

The actress was ethereal in a lavender-blue, floor-length dress appliqued with pink flowers and jewels and her hair styled in a smooth fringed bob.

She was among the film luminaries at the BFI Director’s Dinner, which honoured screenwriter Peter Morgan, best known for The Queen – starring Mirren – and The Crown, as well as Frost/Nixon. Morgan was given the BFI Fellowship, which is the group’s highest honour.

Mirren posed with Morgan, right, and Hollywood director  and Happy Days star Ron Howard at the event on Tuesday.

Fellowship recipients in recent years have included Cate Blanchett, Al Pacino, Hugh Grant and Mel Brooks.

Although she was lauded for her performance as Queen Elizabeth in the 2006 film The Queen, Mirren revealed last year that she cried when she saw the clothes she’d have to wear for the role.

“They laid all of these sensible shoes out, kilts, barbour jackets, head scarves, and these sort of dresses,” the actress admitted, according to a Vanity Fair report.

“I cried. I thought, I can’t play anyone who’d wear these clothes. I just can’t do it.

But Mirren said she later began to understand why the monarch kept to a simple, functional wardrobe.

“She’s wearing her uniform,” Mirren explained. “She doesn’t care what she looks like in it as long as it’s the right thing for the right moment.”

Mirren has met the Queen on a number of occasions, including in 2014 alongside director Richard Attenborough, but confesses that she always feels self-conscious when doing so, although the pair have never discussed her performances as the monarch.