
Judi Dench
4 FOLLOWERS • 70 CREDITS • DEC 9, 1934 • 90
Biography
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an 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.
Known For

The Oscars

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tony Awards

The One Show

Parkinson

The Hollow Crown

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Pebble Mill

Top Gear

Going Live!

Omnibus

Who Do You Think You Are?

An Age of Kings

Performance

Countryfile

Staged

Louis Theroux Interviews

Spectre

Spirited

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

My Week with Marilyn

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

The Chronicles of Riddick

A Room with a View

Tomorrow Never Dies

Artemis Fowl

Pride & Prejudice

Murder on the Orient Express

Jane Eyre

Six Minutes to Midnight

GoldenEye

Die Another Day

The World Is Not Enough

J. Edgar

Nine

Shakespeare in Love

Belfast

Tulip Fever

The Cherry Orchard

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Quantum of Solace

Chocolat

Casino Royale

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Nothing Like a Dame

Home on the Range

Skyfall

Cranford

Talking to a Stranger

Cats

The Browning Version

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

My Homeland

On Giant's Shoulders

Victoria & Abdul

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre

A Dairy Tale

Going Gently

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

Ghosts

Absolute Hell

The Cherry Orchard

Langrishe, Go Down

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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