| May-06-12 | | Jim Bartle: She's more famous for her more recent roles, but I remember her most as the detective in "Prime Suspect" and the mob boss' girlfriend in "The Long Good Friday." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cosG... |
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May-06-12
 | | HeMateMe: Not to mention posing in the "all in all" for the movie <Calender Girls>! |
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| Jun-03-12 | | waustad: Actually if you look at the Austrian press she is a rather jolly looking lady who is about as far from glamorous as she could get. |
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| Jun-03-12 | | waustad: Interestingly enough though, she has been involved with theater. From her Wiki page: Helene Mira (* 18. November 1954 in Wien) ist eine österreichische Schauspielerin und Schachmeisterin. She is in many pictures with Eva Moser when the latter looked like a teenager, so she may have been a mentor. These often involved showing chess to children if I recall. |
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| Jan-06-13 | | waustad: While poking around an Austrian chess site I ran into a page devoted to youth chess and she's in about a third of the pictures. This is nothing new, since she was also in a lot of pictures of kids playing chess along with a teenage Eva Moser, who is now 30. |
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| Aug-25-14 | | waustad: After winning her game today against defending champion Veronika Exler, she is the sole leader in this year's Austrian championship (w) with 3/3. Games and webcam are available from http://chess-results.com/LiveTourna... |
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| Nov-18-14 | | waustad: Happy 60th b'day! |
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| Nov-18-14 | | waustad: I wonder why she didn't show up on the happy birthday page. A six time national champion indicates a much more impressive career than some of those who were included. |
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Nov-18-14
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| Nov-18-14 | | waustad: According to her WIKI page she's from Vienna and now lives in Voralberg, over near the Swiss border. Her late husband was a theater director and she was involved in the industry. The two women do not look much like each other. I'm writing this from memory so I don't have any links to post. |
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| May-19-15 | | waustad: A tournament she directed in Bregenz, the Int. Bodensee OPEN 2015, had the experience of checking out the stage for a Turandot production. Ms Mira's connection to stage and chess was put to good use. Between this collection of tournaments (there was also a senior and a blitz tournament), many of the top Austrians were busy this week. There is also an international tournament in Hungary where many people hoping for norms are playing. GM Markus Ragger is presently one of the co-leaders there. |
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| Nov-21-15 | | waustad: Congratulations on coming equal first, fourth on tiebreaks, in the World Senior Chess Championship (women over 50 division). Her tiebreaks were hurt by having received a bye after drawing several early games along with one loss. She finished strongly winning her last 3 games. |
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| Nov-18-17 | | waustad: Happy b'day! I hope you are well. |
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