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Judi Dench
Born · December 9, 1934 (90 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: York, North Yorkshire, England
Bio
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.
Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
Self
0.0
2024
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self · (3 episodes)
5.3
2023
The Coronation Concert
Self (archive footage)
6.0
2023
Allelujah
Mary
5.3
2023
Spirited
Dame Judi Dench
6.9
2022
Quintessentially British
Self
3.2
2022
Louis Theroux Interviews
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
2022
Born to be The King
Narrator
7.0
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Self (archive footage)
8.0
2022
I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
Self
0.0
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
8.0
2022
Belfast
Granny
7.1
2021
Being James Bond
M (archive footage)
7.8
2021
Off the Rails
Diana
6.3
2021
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)
10.0
2021
Blithe Spirit
Madame Arcati
5.7
2020
Six Minutes to Midnight
Miss Rocholl
6.2
2020
Staged
Judi · (1 episode)
7.9
2020
Artemis Fowl
Commander Root
5.6
2020
Cats
Old Deuteronomy
4.1
2019
Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
Herself · (2 episodes)
6.5
2019
All Is True
Anne Shakespeare
6.1
2018
Red Joan
Joan Elizabeth Stanley
6.7
2018
Palo Santo
Mother of Palo Santo
6.0
2018
Nothing Like a Dame
Self
6.9
2018
Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
Self
6.7
2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Princess Dragomiroff
6.7
2017
Victoria & Abdul
Queen Victoria
6.9
2017
Tulip Fever
The Abbess of St. Ursula
6.5
2017
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
7.8
2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Avocet
6.8
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
7.5
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Paulina
7.7
2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
0.0
2015
Spectre
M (uncredited)
6.6
2015
The Vote
Christine Metcalfe
8.4
2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Evelyn Greenslade
6.4
2015
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Mrs. Silver
6.7
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
5.8
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2014
Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
7.1
2013
Portrait Artist of the Year
Themselves · (1 episode)
6.7
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
7.0
2013
Philomena
Philomena
7.4
2013
Muse of Fire
Self
6.5
2013
Vicious
(1 episode)
7.5
2013
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
5.0
2013
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Self
6.2
2012
Skyfall
M
7.2
2012
Everything or Nothing
Self
7.1
2012
Stars In Shorts
Mary
0.0
2012
The Hollow Crown
Cecily · (1 episode)
7.4
2012
Run For Your Wife
Bag Lady
4.2
2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Evelyn Greenslade
6.9
2012
My Week with Marilyn
Dame Sybil Thorndike
6.7
2011
J. Edgar
Anna Marie Hoover
6.2
2011
Friend Request Pending
Mary
7.7
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Society Lady
6.6
2011
Into the Woods
The Giant (voice)
8.8
2011
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Fairfax
7.2
2011
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
M (voice)
5.5
2011
Nine
Lilli
5.5
2009
Rage
Mona Carvell
3.5
2009
Live from Studio Five
Self · (1 episode)
3.3
2009
Quantum of Solace
M
6.3
2008
Cranford
Miss Matilda Jenkyns · (7 episodes)
8.1
2007
Cranford
Self/Miss Matty Jenkins · (1 episode)
8.1
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (13 episodes)
7.2
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · (3 episodes)
7.2
2007
Notes on a Scandal
Barbara Covett
7.1
2006
Casino Royale
M
7.6
2006
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail
Miss Lilly (voice)
2.0
2006
The One Show
Self · (1 episode)
4.6
2006
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
6.0
2006
Doogal
Narrator (voice)
4.9
2006
Pride & Prejudice
Catherine de Bourgh
8.1
2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Laura Henderson
6.7
2005
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
Miss Lilly (voice)
0.0
2005
We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
Narrator
8.0
2005
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Miss Lilly (voice)
7.0
2004
Ladies in Lavender
Ursula
6.4
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
2004
A Dairy Tale
Mrs. Calloway (voice)
5.1
2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
Aereon
6.5
2004
Home on the Range
Mrs. Caloway (voice)
6.1
2004
Bugs!
Narrator (voice)
6.2
2003
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
Self
0.0
2002
Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
Self
0.0
2002
Best Ever Bond
Self
5.0
2002
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Self
6.5
2002
Die Another Day
M
6.0
2002
Bond Girls Are Forever
M (archive footage)
5.8
2002
Top Gear
M (archive footage) · (1 episode)
7.5
2002
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell
6.8
2002
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
0.0
2002
The Life of Shakespeare
self
0.0
2002
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
Self
5.5
2002
The Shipping News
Agnis Hamm
6.4
2001
Iris
Iris Murdoch
6.4
2001
Angelina Ballerina
Miss Lilly (voice) · (39 episodes)
7.3
2001
Chocolat
Armande Voizin
7.0
2000
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Narrator (voice)
7.5
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Elizabeth
6.7
2000
The World Is Not Enough
M
6.3
1999
Tea with Mussolini
Arabella
6.4
1999
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
6.8
1999
Shakespeare in Love
Queen Elizabeth
6.9
1998
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")
2.0
1998
Parkinson
Self · (2 episodes)
0.0
1998
Highly Classified: The World of 007
4.0
1998
Tomorrow Never Dies
M
6.4
1997
Mrs Brown
Queen Victoria
6.7
1997
Hamlet
Hecuba
7.3
1996
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Self
6.0
1995
GoldenEye
M
6.9
1995
Jack & Sarah
Margaret
6.7
1995
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Self
6.0
1995
Middlemarch
(1 episode)
7.8
1994
As Time Goes By
Jean Pargetter · (67 episodes)
7.6
1992
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
Narrator
0.0
1992
Pebble Mill
Self · (1 episode)
3.1
1991
Absolute Hell
Christine Foskett
5.7
1991
Performance
Christine Foskett · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Anne
10.0
1990
Henry V
Mistress Quickly
7.2
1989
Behaving Badly
Bridget Mayor · (4 episodes)
3.0
1989
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
0.0
1988
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Self
5.2
1988
A Handful of Dust
Mrs. Beaver
6.1
1988
Going Live!
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1987
Ghosts
Mrs. Alving
0.0
1987
84 Charing Cross Road
Nora Doel
7.1
1987
Make and Break
Mrs. Rogers
0.0
1987
The Browning Version
Millie Crocker-Harris
6.2
1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Dorrie Edgehill
7.0
1985
A Room with a View
Eleanor Lavish
7.0
1985
Theatre Night
(1 episode)
0.0
1985
Wetherby
Marcia Pilborough
6.0
1985
The Angelic Conversation
(voice)
5.2
1985
Playing Shakespeare
(9 episodes)
10.0
1984
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Barbara Dean
4.6
1983
A Fine Romance
Laura Dalton · (26 episodes)
5.3
1981
The Cherry Orchard
Mme. Ranevsky
0.0
1981
Going Gently
Sister Scarli
5.0
1981
Love in a Cold Climate
Aunt Sadie · (8 episodes)
6.2
1980
Village Wooing
Z
0.0
1979
On Giant's Shoulders
Hazel Wiles
0.0
1979
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
7.4
1979
The Comedy of Errors
Adriana
8.8
1978
Langrishe, Go Down
Imogen Langrishe
4.2
1978
An Audience with...
Self · (4 episodes)
5.3
1978
My Homeland
Reader
0.0
1976
Dead Cert
Laura Davidson
4.3
1974
Playhouse
Sister Scarli · (3 episodes)
7.0
1974
Playhouse
(1 episode)
7.0
1974
Luther
Katharina
5.5
1974
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
5.5
1968
Ooh La La!
Amélie · (1 episode)
0.0
1968
Talking to a Stranger
Terry Stevens - Daughter · (4 episodes)
8.5
1966
Four in the Morning
Wife ("Judi")
6.2
1965
A Study in Terror
Sally
6.3
1965
He Who Rides a Tiger
Joanne
0.0
1965
The Third Secret
Miss Ada Humphries
6.1
1964
The Cherry Orchard
Anya
8.0
1962
An Age of Kings
(2 episodes)
4.7
1960
An Age of Kings
Katherine · (15 episodes)
4.7
1960
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter/Winner · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
The Oscars
Self · (7 episodes)
7.0
1953
The BAFTA Awards
Self · (1 episode)
10.0
1949