OLIVIA Colman has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours — just as she plays Her Majesty on television.
The actress, 45, has also portrayed the Queen Mum in the past and got an Oscar in February for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite.
She said she was “totally thrilled, delighted and humbled” to get the gong for services to drama.
Olivia will be seen as the Queen in Netflix show The Crown later this year.
Other names to get honours include adventurer Bear Grylls and comedian Griff Rhys Jones, who got OBEs, while authors Joanna Trollope and Lee Child got CBEs.
Singer Elvis Costello and Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey picked up gongs, as did political rapper M.I.A.
The London-born activist, 45 — real name Mathangi Arulpragasam — has been accused of supporting Tamil guerrillas in Sri Lanka, where she grew up.
Historians Dan Snow and Bettany Hughes, actress Sheila Atim and photographer Terry O’Neill were also honoured, while actor Simon Russell Beale was knighted.
And CBI boss Carolyn Fairbairn, who made alarmist claims about Brexit, became a dame.
There are also OBEs for three executives behind recent TV hits. Blue Planet producer Alistair Fothergill, boss of The Crown’s production firm Andrew Harries, and Richard Williams whose Northern Ireland Screen was involved in the huge success of Game Of Thrones.
Among the few sports stars honoured, ex QPR manager Chris Ramsey gets an MBE for championing diversity in football management, and Women’s British Open winner Georgia Hall gets the same award.
Founder of Maggie’s cancer centres Laurie Lee becomes a Dame while Prof Mark Caulfield gets a knighthood for his pioneering work to sequence the DNA code of 100,000 NHS patients.
Archibald Tunnock, 86, who invented the Tunnock’s Tea Cake marshmallow snack, got a knighthood.
Overall 1,073 people are given awards in today’s list, three-quarters of whom are recognised for outstanding work in their local communities.
Many are honoured for their work in helping people from disadvantaged groups, including Sonia Watson, chief of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust; Simon Woolley, founder of Operation Black Vote; and 15 foster carers who between them have looked after more than 1,000 children.
Five Holocaust survivors who have dedicated their lives to educating people about the horrors of the Nazis are awarded the British Empire Medal.
A MANDARIN blamed for Amber Rudd losing her job over the Windrush scandal has been given a top honour.
Home Office director general Glyn Williams sat next to the then-Home Secretary at a 2018 committee hearing where they wrongly denied deportation targets existed.
Ms Rudd quit, with allies saying she had been “badly let down” by civil servants.
Mr Williams gets a CB, a Companion of the Order of the Bath, for “public service”.
And former Chief Constable Sara Thornton, whose force failed to help abused kids in Oxford, is made a dame.
