Judi Dench 1934 90
Judi Dench 1934 90
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.
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2025 Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love as Self
2025 Morecambe & Wise: The Unseen Tapes as Self
2024 Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple as Self
2023 The Coronation Concert as Self (archive footage)
2023 Allelujah as Mary
2022 Spirited as Dame Judi Dench
2022 Quintessentially British as Self
2022 Born to be The King as Narrator
2022 Judi Dench: Our National Treasure as Self (archive footage)
2022 I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth as Self
2022 Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
2021 Belfast as Granny
2021 Being James Bond as M (archive footage)
2021 Off the Rails as Diana
2021 The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre as Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)
2020 Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati
2020 Six Minutes to Midnight as Miss Rocholl
2020 Artemis Fowl as Commander Root
2019 Cats as Old Deuteronomy
2018 All Is True as Anne Shakespeare
2018 Red Joan as Joan Elizabeth Stanley
2018 Palo Santo as Mother of Palo Santo
2018 Nothing Like a Dame as Self
2017 Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees as Self
2017 Murder on the Orient Express as Princess Dragomiroff
2017 Victoria & Abdul as Queen Victoria
2017 Tulip Fever as The Abbess of St. Ursula
2016 Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage as Self
2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as Miss Avocet
2016 Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
2015 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Paulina
2015 Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive material)
2015 Spectre as M (uncredited)
2015 The Vote as Christine Metcalfe
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Evelyn Greenslade
2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot as Mrs. Silver
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
2013 Philomena as Philomena
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2012 Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars as Self
2012 Skyfall as M
2012 Everything or Nothing as Self
2012 Stars In Shorts as Mary
2012 Run For Your Wife as Bag Lady
2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Evelyn Greenslade
2011 My Week with Marilyn as Dame Sybil Thorndike
2011 J. Edgar as Anna Marie Hoover
2011 Friend Request Pending as Mary
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Society Lady
2011 Into the Woods as The Giant (voice)
2011 Jane Eyre as Mrs. Fairfax
2011 James Bond Supports International Women's Day as M (voice)
2009 Nine as Lilli
2009 Rage as Mona Carvell
2008 Quantum of Solace as M
2006 Notes on a Scandal as Barbara Covett
2006 Casino Royale as M
2006 Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck as Miss Lilly (voice)
2006 Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006 Doogal as Narrator (voice)
2005 Pride & Prejudice as Catherine de Bourgh
2005 Mrs. Henderson Presents as Mrs. Laura Henderson
2005 Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance as Miss Lilly (voice)
2005 We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom as Narrator
2004 Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On as Miss Lilly (voice)
2004 Ladies in Lavender as Ursula
2004 A Dairy Tale as Mrs. Calloway (voice)
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick as Aereon
2004 Home on the Range as Mrs. Caloway (voice)
2003 Bugs! as Narrator (voice)
2002 Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute as Self
2002 Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre as Self
2002 Best Ever Bond as Self
2002 Die Another Day: From Script to Screen as Self
2002 Die Another Day as M
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever as M (archive footage)
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest as Lady Bracknell
2002 The Life of Shakespeare as self
2002 Shaken and Stirred on Ice as Self
2002 Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening as Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
2001 The Shipping News as Agnis Hamm
2001 Iris as Iris Murdoch
2000 Chocolat as Armande Voizin
2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport as Narrator (voice)
2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Elizabeth
1999 The World Is Not Enough as M
1999 Tea with Mussolini as Arabella
1999 Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1998 Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth
1998 Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")
1998 Highly Classified: The World of 007
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies as M
1997 Mrs Brown as Queen Victoria
1996 Hamlet as Hecuba
1995 Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
1995 GoldenEye as M
1995 Jack & Sarah as Margaret
1995 GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
1992 J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973 as Narrator
1991 Absolute Hell as Christine Foskett
1990 Can You Hear Me Thinking? as Anne
1989 Look Back in Anger Director
1989 Henry V as Mistress Quickly
1988 One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage as Self (uncredited)
1988 An Audience With Victoria Wood as Self
1988 A Handful of Dust as Mrs. Beaver
1987 Ghosts as Helene Alving
1987 84 Charing Cross Road as Nora Doel
1987 Make and Break as Mrs. Rogers
1986 A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish
1985 The Browning Version as Millie Crocker-Harris
1985 Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill as Dorrie Edgehill
1985 Wetherby as Marcia Pilborough
1985 The Angelic Conversation as (voice)
1983 Saigon: Year Of The Cat as Barbara Dean
1981 The Cherry Orchard as Mme. Ranevsky
1981 Going Gently as Sister Scarli
1979 Village Wooing as Z
1979 On Giant's Shoulders as Hazel Wiles
1979 Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
1978 The Comedy of Errors as Adriana
1978 Langrishe, Go Down as Imogen Langrishe
1976 My Homeland as Reader
1974 Dead Cert as Laura Davidson
1974 Luther as Katharina
1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
1965 Four in the Morning as Wife ("Judi")
1965 A Study in Terror as Sally
1965 He Who Rides a Tiger as Joanne
1964 The Third Secret as Miss Ada Humphries
1962 The Cherry Orchard as Anya