Judi Dench
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
Credits
- 2024 · Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple as Self
- 2023 · Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius 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 · Louis Theroux Interviews 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 · Staged as Judi
- 2020 · Artemis Fowl as Commander Root
- 2019 · Cats as Old Deuteronomy
- 2019 · Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure as Herself
- 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 Natalia 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 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Portrait Artist of the Year as Themselves
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
- 2013 · Philomena as Philomena
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013 · Vicious as
- 2013 · Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
- 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 · The Hollow Crown as Cecily
- 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
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2008 · Quantum of Solace as M
- 2007 · Cranford as Miss Matilda Jenkyns
- 2007 · Cranford as Self/Miss Matty Jenkins
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Notes on a Scandal as Barbara Covett
- 2006 · Casino Royale as M
- 2006 · Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail as Miss Lilly (voice)
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles as
- 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 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 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 · Top Gear as M (archive footage)
- 2002 · The Importance of Being Earnest as Lady Bracknell
- 2002 · Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening as Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
- 2002 · The Life of Shakespeare as self
- 2002 · Shaken and Stirred on Ice as Self
- 2001 · The Shipping News as Agnis Hamm
- 2001 · Iris as Iris Murdoch
- 2001 · Angelina Ballerina as Miss Lilly (voice)
- 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 as
- 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 · Parkinson as Self
- 1998 · Highly Classified: The World of 007 as
- 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
- 1994 · Middlemarch as
- 1992 · As Time Goes By as Jean Pargetter
- 1992 · J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973 as Narrator
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1991 · Absolute Hell as Christine Foskett
- 1991 · Performance as Christine Foskett
- 1990 · Can You Hear Me Thinking? as Anne
- 1989 · Henry V as Mistress Quickly
- 1989 · Behaving Badly as Bridget Mayor
- 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 · Going Live! as Self
- 1987 · Ghosts as Mrs. Alving
- 1987 · 84 Charing Cross Road as Nora Doel
- 1987 · Make and Break as Mrs. Rogers
- 1985 · The Browning Version as Millie Crocker-Harris
- 1985 · Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill as Dorrie Edgehill
- 1985 · A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish
- 1985 · Theatre Night as
- 1985 · Wetherby as Marcia Pilborough
- 1985 · The Angelic Conversation as (voice)
- 1984 · Playing Shakespeare as
- 1983 · Saigon: Year Of The Cat as Barbara Dean
- 1981 · A Fine Romance as Laura Dalton
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Mme. Ranevsky
- 1981 · Going Gently as Sister Scarli
- 1980 · Love in a Cold Climate as Aunt Sadie
- 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
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1976 · My Homeland as Reader
- 1974 · Dead Cert as Laura Davidson
- 1974 · Playhouse as
- 1974 · Playhouse as Sister Scarli
- 1974 · Luther as Katharina
- 1968 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
- 1968 · Ooh La La! as Amélie
- 1966 · Talking to a Stranger as Terry Stevens - Daughter
- 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
- 1960 · An Age of Kings as
- 1960 · An Age of Kings as Katherine
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter/Winner
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Self