Judi Dench
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
172
Gender
Female
Birthday
1934-12-09 (90 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
Tony Awards
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Countryfile
BBC Play of the Month
Pebble Mill
Parkinson
Pride & Prejudice
Playhouse
An Audience with...
Casino Royale
The Oscars
Omnibus
Going Live!
Who Do You Think You Are?
Performance
Skyfall
Spectre
Quantum of Solace
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Hollow Crown
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week
Home on the Range
GoldenEye
Festival
Jane Eyre
The World Is Not Enough
As Time Goes By
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
Die Another Day
Murder on the Orient Express
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Importance of Being Earnest
Staged
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Hamlet
The BAFTA Awards
The Angelic Conversation
Macbeth
Spirited
Notes on a Scandal
A Room with a View
Cranford
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
84 Charing Cross Road
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
Ghosts
Morecambe & Wise: The Unseen Tapes
Tulip Fever
The Chronicles of Riddick
My Week with Marilyn
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Middlemarch
Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
Quintessentially British
Chocolat
The Coronation Concert
An Age of Kings
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
Artemis Fowl
Vicious
Ooh La La!
Blithe Spirit
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Into the Woods
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
J. Edgar
Henry V
Talking Pictures
Four in the Morning
Iris
Six Minutes to Midnight
Detective
Angelina Ballerina
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Wetherby
Nine
Jack & Sarah
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Allelujah
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Luther
Philomena
Shakespeare in Love
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
The Browning Version
Highly Classified: The World of 007
A Dairy Tale
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Red Joan
Tea with Mussolini
Nothing Like a Dame
Playing Shakespeare
He Who Rides a Tiger
Mrs Brown
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Make and Break
Palo Santo
The Cherry Orchard
Rage
Best Ever Bond
Six by Sondheim
The Third Secret
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Victoria & Abdul
Langrishe, Go Down
Dead Cert
Cats
Theatre Night
Theatre Night
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Study in Terror
A Fine Romance
Love in a Cold Climate
Everything or Nothing
The Vote
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
All Is True
Born to be The King
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck
Belfast
Off the Rails
Ladies in Lavender
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
Louis Theroux Interviews
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
The Comedy of Errors
A Handful of Dust
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Behaving Badly
Muse of Fire
The Shipping News
Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
Run For Your Wife
Talking to a Stranger
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Absolute Hell
Stars In Shorts
Doogal
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Live from Studio Five
Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Going Gently
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
On Giant's Shoulders
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Friend Request Pending
Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
The Life of Shakespeare
Bugs!
Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
My Homeland
The Cherry Orchard
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
Village Wooing
