Judi Dench
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
178
Gender
Female
Birthday
1934-12-09 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
York, North Yorkshire, England
Judi Dench
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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The One Show
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Parkinson
The Oscars
Playhouse
Casino Royale
BBC Play of the Month
Pride & Prejudice
HBO First Look
Omnibus
Spectre
Pebble Mill
The Hollow Crown
Skyfall
Luther
Countryfile
Performance
Quantum of Solace
Who Do You Think You Are?
Shakespeare in Love
Theatre 625
Theatre 625
Mrs Brown
Red Joan
Iris
Murder on the Orient Express
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week
Jack & Sarah
An Audience with...
Going Live!
Die Another Day
The Vote
GoldenEye
The World Is Not Enough
Home on the Range
Henry V
Allelujah
Absolute Hell
Tomorrow Never Dies
Going Gently
Hamlet
Langrishe, Go Down
As Time Goes By
Staged
Chocolat
Festival
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
The BAFTA Awards
Off the Rails
Everything or Nothing
Ghosts
Cranford
Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
Muse of Fire
The Cherry Orchard
Vicious
Jane Eyre
An Age of Kings
Macbeth
J. Edgar
Ladies in Lavender
Six Minutes to Midnight
Ooh La La!
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Wetherby
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Spirited
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Quintessentially British
The Big Night In
The Browning Version
Philomena
Cats
Rage
A Dairy Tale
Six by Sondheim
Detective
Talking Pictures
Artemis Fowl
Middlemarch
Belfast
Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
Nothing Like a Dame
Angelina Ballerina
A Fine Romance
A Room with a View
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Chronicles of Riddick
Tulip Fever
My Week with Marilyn
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Notes on a Scandal
Nine
My Homeland
Friend Request Pending
Playing Shakespeare
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Louis Theroux Interviews
Morecambe & Wise: The Unseen Tapes
Stars in Shorts
Love in a Cold Climate
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Victoria & Abdul
Doogal
The Shipping News
Blithe Spirit
The Importance of Being Earnest
Talking to a Stranger
Theatre Night
Theatre Night
All Is True
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Tea with Mussolini
Live from Studio Five
Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Behaving Badly
A Study in Terror
Bugs!
84 Charing Cross Road
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
A Handful of Dust
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
The Third Secret
Into the Woods
Best Ever Bond
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Run For Your Wife
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
The Angelic Conversation
Tea with Judi Dench
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
Highly Classified: The World of 007
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Life of Shakespeare
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
Make and Break
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
An Audience With Victoria Wood
The Cherry Orchard
The Coronation Concert
Four in the Morning
I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
Dead Cert
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance
Village Wooing
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Born to be The King
The Comedy of Errors
Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck
Palo Santo
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
On Giant's Shoulders
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
He Who Rides a Tiger
Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
