Mirren 's only film of 2016 was '' Collateral Beauty '' , directed by David Frankel . Co-Starring Will Smith , Keira Knightley , and Kate Winslet , the ensemble drama follows a man who copes with his daughter 's death by writing letters to time , death , and love . The film earned largely negative reviews from critics , who called it " well-meaning but fundamentally flawed . " In 2017 , Mirren narrated '' Cries from Syria '' , a documentary film about the Syrian Civil War , directed by Evgeny Afineevsky . Also that year , she made an uncredited cameo appearance in F. Gary Gray 's '' The Fate of the Furious '' , the eighth instalment in '' The Fast and the Furious '' franchise , playing Magdalene , the mother of Owen and Deckard Shaw . Mirren had a larger role in director Paolo Virzì 's English-language debut '' The Leisure Seeker '' , based on the 2009 novel of the same name . On set , she was reunited with Donald Sutherland with whom she had not worked again since '' Bethune : The Making of a Hero '' ( 1990 ) , portraying a terminally ill couple who escape from their retirement home and take one last cross-country adventure in a vintage van . At the 75th awards ceremony , Mirren received her 15th Golden Globe nomination
75th awards ceremony
75th Golden Globe Awards
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