Helen Mirren Is Finally Ready to Sell Her Revamped Hollywood Hills Home for 12 Million
Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford have been trying to sell their Hollywood Hills estate since 2021. It launched at $18.5 million. Then $16.9 million. Then under $15 million. As recently as January 2025, it was back on the rental market at $30,000 a month.
Now it is listed again, freshly redesigned, properly staged, and priced at $12 million. A $6.5 million drop from where it all started.
The Estate: What You Are Actually Getting
The compound sits on 6.5 acres at 2003 La Brea Terrace, right at the edge of Runyon Canyon. The main house is a two-story, contemporary Mediterranean-style villa spanning 6,600 square feet.
Add a three-bedroom guesthouse and a garage with an upstairs apartment and office, and the total comes to 10,200 square feet, eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms across the full property.
Outside, brick steps lead down to a rectangular swimming pool. Multiple terraces and landscaped outdoor spaces wrap around the home, with panoramic Los Angeles views at every turn.
Mirren herself described it best back in 2021: “Although it’s a big house, it doesn’t feel like a big house. You don’t feel like you’re a little pea in a huge pod rattling around.”
This time around, the couple invested in a full interior refresh before relisting. They brought in Vesta Home to redesign and stage the interiors, blending classic Hollywood character with a laid-back modern Californian feel.
That detail matters because this is not just a price cut. It is a properly repositioned listing.
Only Four Owners in Over 100 Years
Built in 1911 for silent film star Dustin Farnum, who starred in Cecil B. DeMille’s Squaw Man, the very first feature film shot in Hollywood, this property has passed through remarkably few hands for its age.
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After Farnum came Mark Hellinger, a journalist and producer. Then Gail Patrick, a prolific Golden Age actress who became one of Hollywood’s first successful female television producers and used the estate as a filming location for Perry Mason.
And then Mirren and Hackford, who bought it in the 1980s and have renovated it carefully ever since, always preserving the bones.
Hackford said it plainly to the Wall Street Journal: “It’s very unusual to have a house that’s over 100 years old and it’s only had four owners over that time.”
The couple relocated to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe in early 2020, which is when the property first went on the market. Four years and multiple listing attempts later, they are ready to let it go for real.
Why This Matters and What the Market Is Saying
This is not just a celebrity real estate story. It is a market signal.
Luxury sellers who anchored at peak 2021 prices have been quietly adjusting ever since. Price reductions as a seller’s tool are not unique to Hollywood.
When Joseph and Kendra Duggar recently slashed the asking price on their Arkansas home ahead of a major court date, it showed how a price cut immediately changes a listing’s momentum.
The smarter move, which Mirren and Hackford appear to have taken, is pairing the price cut with visible effort. New staging. New design direction. New agents, Jonas Heller and Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency, now hold the listing.
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What Happens Next
A property like this does not come around often. Homes with a Hollywood legacy, from the silent film era through to today, rarely return to market, and when they do, the story embedded in the walls is half the asking price.
The contrast worth noting is Josh Duhamel, who priced his LA home right from day one, did the renovation work upfront, and had a signed buyer within days of listing. That is the playbook Mirren and Hackford are finally running, four years late but now properly executed.
At $12 million, with Vesta Home’s redesign done and a buyer’s market giving negotiating room, this is the strongest position the listing has been in since 2021.
Is $12 million the right price for a century-old Hollywood estate with a lineage like this, or would you still negotiate down? Drop your take in the comments.
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