
Judi Dench
Born December 9, 1934 · York, North Yorkshire, England
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is a retired English film, stage and television actress. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968. During the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series As Time Goes By. Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she played in each James Bond film until Skyfall (2012). She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001). Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as the leading British actress in polls, Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television; her awards include ten BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. She was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of actress Finty Williams.
Movies

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pride & Prejudice

Casino Royale

Skyfall

The Magic Faraway Tree

Die Another Day

Quantum of Solace

Murder on the Orient Express

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Home on the Range

The World Is Not Enough

Spectre

Tomorrow Never Dies

GoldenEye

Tulip Fever

Shakespeare in Love

Notes on a Scandal

Jane Eyre

Artemis Fowl

Chocolat

Spirited

A Room with a View

The Chronicles of Riddick

Victoria & Abdul

My Week with Marilyn

Philomena

Red Joan

J. Edgar

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Blithe Spirit

Belfast

Cats

Hamlet

Nine

84 Charing Cross Road

Henry V

The Shipping News

Ladies in Lavender

The Importance of Being Earnest

Six Minutes to Midnight
TV Shows

The One Show

Tony Awards

BBC Play of the Month

Theatre 625

Countryfile

Playhouse

Omnibus

The Oscars

An Audience with...

Parkinson

ITV Playhouse

Performance

Who Do You Think You Are?

BBC2 Play of the Week

Parkinson

Screen One

Going Live!

The Hollow Crown

HBO First Look

The BAFTA Awards

As Time Goes By

Remembers…

Staged

Detective

Talking Pictures

Cranford

An Age of Kings

Middlemarch

Vicious

Ooh La La!

Angelina Ballerina

Theatre Night

Love in a Cold Climate

A Fine Romance

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Louis Theroux Interviews

Playing Shakespeare

Behaving Badly

Talking to a Stranger

Live from Studio Five

Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
More Movies

Nothing Like a Dame

Best Ever Bond

A Study in Terror

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

A Handful of Dust

Mrs Brown

All Is True

Run For Your Wife

Iris

Everything or Nothing

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Absolute Hell

The Big Night In

Tea with Mussolini

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

Joke

Muse of Fire

Bond Girls Are Forever

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

Six by Sondheim

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Doogal

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

HiT Favourites: Happy Children's Favourites

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute

Off the Rails

Jack & Sarah

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

Macbeth

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

Four in the Morning

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

Stars in Shorts

Bugs!

The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Saigon: Year of the Cat

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

Highly Classified: The World of 007

The Vote

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

The Comedy of Errors

Wetherby

Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!

The Third Secret

On Giant's Shoulders

Into the Woods

A Dairy Tale

Born to be The King

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

The Cherry Orchard

Dead Cert

Going Gently

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

My Homeland

Allelujah

J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973

Rage

Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me

Friend Request Pending

He Who Rides a Tiger

Tea with Judi Dench featuring Kenneth Branagh

The Browning Version

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

The Cherry Orchard

The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre

Make and Break

Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love

Luther

Langrishe, Go Down

Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance

Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck

The Angelic Conversation

Palo Santo

James Bond Supports International Women's Day

Ghosts

Tea with Judi Dench featuring Ian McKellen

Quintessentially British

I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees




