Judi Dench

Acting · 3.6 popularity

Age

Movies

135

Born: December 9, 1934
From: York, North Yorkshire, England

Biography

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.

Works

135 films

Pride & Prejudice

20058.1

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

20116.6

Casino Royale

20067.6

Skyfall

20127.3

Spectre

20156.6

Murder on the Orient Express

20176.7

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

20166.8

Spirited

20226.8

GoldenEye

19956.9

Quantum of Solace

20086.3

Die Another Day

20026.0

Jane Eyre

20117.2

Tomorrow Never Dies

19976.4

The World Is Not Enough

19996.3

The Magic Faraway Tree

20266.2

Home on the Range

20046.1

Tulip Fever

20176.5

Chocolat

20007.0

Cats

20194.1

Shakespeare in Love

19986.8

The Chronicles of Riddick

20046.6

Notes on a Scandal

20067.1

Artemis Fowl

20205.5

Red Joan

20186.6

J. Edgar

20116.2

A Room with a View

19867.0

My Week with Marilyn

20116.7

Henry V

19897.1

Hamlet

19967.3

Victoria & Abdul

20176.9

Belfast

20217.0

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20127.0

Philomena

20137.3

Ladies in Lavender

20046.5

Nine

20095.5

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20156.4

Blithe Spirit

20205.7

Iris

20016.4

84 Charing Cross Road

19877.2

All Is True

20186.1

Mrs Brown

19976.8

Six Minutes to Midnight

20206.2

The Importance of Being Earnest

20026.8

The Shipping News

20016.4

Tea with Mussolini

19996.4

Six by Sondheim

20137.1

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

20267.0

My Homeland

1976

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

20156.7

Going Gently

19817.5

Mrs. Henderson Presents

20056.7

The Big Night In

20209.0

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

20006.9

A Study in Terror

19656.2

Everything or Nothing

20127.2

Absolute Hell

19916.0

Bond Girls Are Forever

20025.7

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

Jack & Sarah

19956.7

Joke

20266.0

A Handful of Dust

19886.1

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

19956.0

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

19857.3

A Dairy Tale

20045.1

Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute

20028.0

Doogal

20064.9

Highly Classified: The World of 007

19987.0

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

20126.2

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

20167.2

Allelujah

20235.2

Bugs!

20036.3

Best Ever Bond

20025.7

Saigon: Year of the Cat

19835.3

Off the Rails

20216.0

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

20228.0

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

20007.4

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

20026.5

Into the Woods

20118.8

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

19986.7

A Midsummer Night's Dream

19686.3

Macbeth

19797.5

The Browning Version

19856.2

Village Wooing

1979

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

20136.2

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

20167.8

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

19956.0

Rage

20093.5

The Vote

20158.4

Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles

20066.0

The Cherry Orchard

19628.0

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

20228.0

Friend Request Pending

20117.7

The Cherry Orchard

19817.0

Shaken and Stirred on Ice

20025.5

Stars in Shorts

20126.0

Run For Your Wife

20124.4

The Third Secret

19646.2

Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!

20036.2

Wetherby

19856.0

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees

20176.7

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

20155.0

He Who Rides a Tiger

19657.0

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

20157.7

Luther

19746.0

Quintessentially British

20223.8

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

19908.5

The Comedy of Errors

19788.6

Dead Cert

19744.4

Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me

20257.0

Ghosts

19877.0

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

20027.0

The Angelic Conversation

19875.2

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

20047.0

Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple

2024

Palo Santo

20187.3

Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love

2004

Four in the Morning

19656.3

Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck

20062.0

Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre

2002

Born to be The King

20227.0

On Giant's Shoulders

19799.0

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

202110.0

The Life of Shakespeare

2002

Tea with Judi Dench

2025

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

2022

James Bond Supports International Women's Day

20114.4

Make and Break

1987

Letters to My Younger Future Self

2026

Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance

2005

Langrishe, Go Down

19784.4

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

19928.0

We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom

20058.0

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance

2005