Judi Dench

Acting · 3.5 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

GoldenEye

19956.9

Spirited

20226.8

Jane Eyre

20117.2

Quantum of Solace

20086.3

Die Another Day

20026.0

Tomorrow Never Dies

19976.4

The Magic Faraway Tree

20266.2

The World Is Not Enough

19996.3

Tulip Fever

20176.5

Chocolat

20007.0

Home on the Range

20046.1

Shakespeare in Love

19986.8

Cats

20194.1

The Chronicles of Riddick

20046.6

Artemis Fowl

20205.5

Notes on a Scandal

20067.1

Red Joan

20186.6

J. Edgar

20116.2

A Room with a View

19867.0

Belfast

20217.0

Hamlet

19967.3

Victoria & Abdul

20176.9

My Week with Marilyn

20116.7

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20127.0

Philomena

20137.3

Ladies in Lavender

20046.5

Blithe Spirit

20205.7

Henry V

19897.1

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20156.4

Nine

20095.5

All Is True

20186.1

The Importance of Being Earnest

20026.8

Iris

20016.4

Mrs Brown

19976.8

84 Charing Cross Road

19877.2

Tea with Mussolini

19996.4

Six Minutes to Midnight

20206.2

The Shipping News

20016.4

Mrs. Henderson Presents

20056.7

Six by Sondheim

20137.1

Going Gently

19817.5

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

20156.7

My Homeland

1976

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

20267.0

Everything or Nothing

20127.2

The Big Night In

20209.0

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

19956.0

Absolute Hell

19916.0

Bond Girls Are Forever

20025.7

A Handful of Dust

19886.1

Jack & Sarah

19956.7

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

Muse of Fire

20136.5

A Study in Terror

19656.2

Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute

20028.0

Doogal

20064.9

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

20006.9

A Dairy Tale

20045.1

Allelujah

20235.2

Highly Classified: The World of 007

19987.0

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

20126.2

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

20228.0

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

19857.3

The Browning Version

19856.2

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

20167.2

A Midsummer Night's Dream

19686.3

Joke

20266.0

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

20136.2

Off the Rails

20216.0

Village Wooing

1979

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

20228.0

Best Ever Bond

20025.7

Macbeth

19797.5

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

20167.8

Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!

20036.2

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

20007.4

The Vote

20158.4

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

20026.5

Bugs!

20036.3

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

19956.0

The Comedy of Errors

19788.6

Wetherby

19856.0

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

20157.7

The Cherry Orchard

19817.0

The Cherry Orchard

19628.0

Dead Cert

19744.4

Saigon: Year of the Cat

19835.3

Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me

20257.0

Rage

20093.5

Into the Woods

20118.8

Friend Request Pending

20117.7

Palo Santo

20187.3

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

19986.7

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

20155.0

Run For Your Wife

20124.4

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

19908.5

Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles

20066.0

Luther

19746.0

Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple

2024

Ghosts

19877.0

Shaken and Stirred on Ice

20025.5

Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre

2002

The Third Secret

19646.2

Stars in Shorts

20126.0

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

The Angelic Conversation

19875.2

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees

20176.7

He Who Rides a Tiger

19657.0

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

20047.0

Four in the Morning

19656.3

Quintessentially British

20223.8

The Life of Shakespeare

2002

Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck

20062.0

Letters to My Younger Future Self

2026

On Giant's Shoulders

19799.0

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

20027.0

Langrishe, Go Down

19784.4

Born to be The King

20227.0

Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love

2004

Tea with Judi Dench

2025

Make and Break

1987

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

202110.0

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

2022

Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance

2005

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance

2005

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

19928.0

James Bond Supports International Women's Day

20114.4

We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom

20058.0