Red is a series of American action comedy films starring an English actor who began her acting career with with company?
Royal Shakespeare Company
Title: Red (film series)
Passage: Red is a series of American action comedy films inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage.  The film stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, and Karl Urban with German film director Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber.
Title: Whistling in the Dark (1941 film)
Passage: Whistling in the Dark is the first of three comedy films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries.  Wally is kidnapped by a greedy cult leader (played by Conrad Veidt), who threatens to kill Wally's girlfriend (portrayed in all three films by Ann Rutherford) and another young woman unless he concocts a perfect murder.  The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter.  Uncredited contributing writer Elliott Nugent wrote and directed the earlier film adaptation of the same name.
Title: Helen Mirren
Passage: Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ("née" Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor.  Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen".  She received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in "The Audience", in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II, and in 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway performance in the play.  "The Audience" was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote "The Queen".  Mirren won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994 and her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series "Prime Suspect", which ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006.
Helen Mirren Red (film series)