Judi Dench
Overview
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.
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Average rating: 6.6
2005
Pride & Prejudice
Average rating: 8.1
2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Average rating: 6.8
2006
Casino Royale
Average rating: 7.6
2012
Skyfall
Average rating: 7.2
2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Average rating: 6.7
2008
Quantum of Solace
Average rating: 6.3
2004
Home on the Range
Average rating: 6.1
1999
The World Is Not Enough
Average rating: 6.3
1995
GoldenEye
Average rating: 6.9
2002
Die Another Day
Average rating: 6
2015
Spectre
Average rating: 6.5
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
Average rating: 6.4
1998
Shakespeare in Love
Average rating: 6.9
2020
Artemis Fowl
Average rating: 5.6
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Average rating: 5.5
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Average rating: 5.9
2006
The One Show
Average rating: 4.6
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Average rating: 7.2
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Average rating: 7.2
2002
Top Gear
Average rating: 7.5
2013
Portrait Artist of the Year
Average rating: 6.7
1953
The Oscars
Average rating: 7
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
Average rating: 6.5
2020
Staged
Average rating: 7.9
1978
An Audience with...
Average rating: 5.3
1956
Tony Awards
Average rating: 5
2013
Vicious
Average rating: 7.6
1992
As Time Goes By
Average rating: 7.6Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Movie | Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple | Self |
| 2023 | Movie | The Coronation Concert | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Movie | Allelujah | Mary |
| 2022 | Movie | Spirited | Dame Judi Dench |
| 2022 | Movie | Quintessentially British | Self |
| 2022 | Tv Show | Louis Theroux Interviews | Self |
| 2022 | Movie | Born to be The King | Narrator |
| 2022 | Movie | Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Movie | I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth | Self |
| 2022 | Movie | Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self |
| 2021 | Movie | Belfast | Granny |
| 2021 | Movie | Being James Bond | M (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Movie | Off the Rails | Diana |
| 2021 | Movie | The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre | Self - Preshow Announcement (voice) |
| 2020 | Movie | Blithe Spirit | Madame Arcati |
| 2020 | Movie | Six Minutes to Midnight | Miss Rocholl |
| 2020 | Tv Show | Staged | Judi |
| 2020 | Movie | Artemis Fowl | Commander Root |
| 2019 | Movie | Cats | Old Deuteronomy |
| 2019 | Tv Show | Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure | Herself |
| 2018 | Movie | All Is True | Anne Shakespeare |
| 2018 | Movie | Red Joan | Joan Elizabeth Stanley |
| 2018 | Movie | Palo Santo | Mother of Palo Santo |
| 2018 | Movie | Nothing Like a Dame | Herself |
| 2017 | Movie | Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees | Self |
| 2017 | Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Natalia Dragomiroff |
| 2017 | Movie | Victoria & Abdul | Queen Victoria |
| 2017 | Movie | Tulip Fever | The Abbess of St. Ursula |
| 2016 | Movie | Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self |
| 2016 | Movie | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Miss Avocet |
| 2016 | Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer |
| 2015 | Movie | Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale | Paulina |
| 2015 | Movie | Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive material) |
| 2015 | Movie | Spectre | M (uncredited) |
| 2015 | Movie | The Vote | Christine Metcalfe |
| 2015 | Movie | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Evelyn Greenslade |
| 2015 | Movie | Roald Dahl's Esio Trot | Mrs. Silver |
| 2014 | Tv Show | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2014 | Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Movie | Six by Sondheim | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Portrait Artist of the Year | Themselves |
| 2013 | Movie | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt |
| 2013 | Movie | Philomena | Philomena |
| 2013 | Movie | Muse of Fire | Self |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Vicious | - |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Movie | Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars | Self |
| 2012 | Movie | Skyfall | M |
| 2012 | Movie | Everything or Nothing | Self |
| 2012 | Movie | Stars In Shorts | Mary |
| 2012 | Tv Show | The Hollow Crown | Cecily |
| 2012 | Movie | Run For Your Wife | Bag Lady |
| 2012 | Movie | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Evelyn Greenslade |
| 2011 | Movie | My Week with Marilyn | Dame Sybil Thorndike |
| 2011 | Movie | J. Edgar | Anna Marie Hoover |
| 2011 | Movie | Friend Request Pending | Mary |
| 2011 | Movie | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Society Lady |
| 2011 | Movie | Into the Woods | The Giant (voice) |
| 2011 | Movie | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Fairfax |
| 2011 | Movie | James Bond Supports International Women's Day | M (voice) |
| 2009 | Movie | Nine | Lilli |
| 2009 | Movie | Rage | Mona Carvell |
| 2009 | Tv Show | Live from Studio Five | Self |
| 2008 | Movie | Quantum of Solace | M |
| 2007 | Tv Show | Cranford | Miss Matilda Jenkyns |
| 2007 | Tv Show | Cranford | Self/Miss Matty Jenkins |
| 2007 | Tv Show | The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest |
| 2007 | Tv Show | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2006 | Movie | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett |
| 2006 | Movie | Casino Royale | M |
| 2006 | Movie | Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail | Miss Lilly (voice) |
| 2006 | Tv Show | The One Show | Self |
| 2006 | Movie | Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles | - |
| 2006 | Movie | Doogal | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | Pride & Prejudice | Catherine de Bourgh |
| 2005 | Movie | Mrs. Henderson Presents | Mrs. Laura Henderson |
| 2005 | Movie | Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance | Miss Lilly (voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom | Narrator |
| 2004 | Movie | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Miss Lilly (voice) |
| 2004 | Movie | Ladies in Lavender | Ursula |
| 2004 | Tv Show | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self |
| 2004 | Movie | A Dairy Tale | Mrs. Calloway (voice) |
| 2004 | Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Aereon |
| 2004 | Movie | Home on the Range | Mrs. Caloway (voice) |
| 2003 | Movie | Bugs! | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Movie | Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | Best Ever Bond | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | Die Another Day: From Script to Screen | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | Die Another Day | M |
| 2002 | Movie | Bond Girls Are Forever | M (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Tv Show | Top Gear | M (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Movie | The Importance of Being Earnest | Lady Bracknell |
| 2002 | Movie | Shaken and Stirred on Ice | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | The Life of Shakespeare | self |
| 2002 | Movie | Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening | Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" |
| 2001 | Movie | The Shipping News | Agnis Hamm |
| 2001 | Movie | Iris | Iris Murdoch |
| 2001 | Tv Show | Angelina Ballerina | Miss Lilly (voice) |
| 2000 | Movie | Chocolat | Armande Voizin |
| 2000 | Movie | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Movie | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Elizabeth |
| 1999 | Movie | The World Is Not Enough | M |
| 1999 | Movie | Tea with Mussolini | Arabella |
| 1999 | Movie | Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years | - |
| 1998 | Movie | Shakespeare in Love | Queen Elizabeth |
| 1998 | Movie | Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns") |
| 1998 | Movie | Highly Classified: The World of 007 | - |
| 1997 | Movie | Tomorrow Never Dies | M |
| 1997 | Movie | Mrs Brown | Queen Victoria |
| 1996 | Movie | Hamlet | Hecuba |
| 1995 | Movie | Goldeneye: The Secret Files | Self |
| 1995 | Movie | GoldenEye | M |
| 1995 | Movie | Jack & Sarah | Margaret |
| 1995 | Movie | GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast | Self |
| 1994 | Tv Show | Middlemarch | - |
| 1992 | Tv Show | As Time Goes By | Jean Pargetter |
| 1992 | Movie | J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973 | Narrator |
| 1991 | Tv Show | Pebble Mill | Self |
| 1991 | Movie | Absolute Hell | Christine Foskett |
| 1991 | Tv Show | Performance | Christine Foskett |
| 1990 | Movie | Can You Hear Me Thinking? | Anne |
| 1989 | Movie | Henry V | Mistress Quickly |
| 1989 | Tv Show | Behaving Badly | Bridget Mayor |
| 1988 | Movie | One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage | Self (uncredited) |
| 1988 | Movie | An Audience With Victoria Wood | Herself |
| 1988 | Movie | A Handful of Dust | Mrs. Beaver |
| 1987 | Tv Show | Going Live! | Self |
| 1987 | Movie | Ghosts | Mrs. Alving |
| 1987 | Movie | 84 Charing Cross Road | Nora Doel |
| 1987 | Movie | Make and Break | Mrs. Rogers |
| 1986 | Movie | A Room with a View | Eleanor Lavish |
| 1985 | Movie | The Browning Version | Millie Crocker-Harris |
| 1985 | Movie | Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Dorrie Edgehill |
| 1985 | Tv Show | Theatre Night | - |
| 1985 | Movie | Wetherby | Marcia Pilborough |
| 1985 | Movie | The Angelic Conversation | (voice) |
| 1984 | Tv Show | Playing Shakespeare | - |
| 1983 | Movie | Saigon: Year Of The Cat | Barbara Dean |
| 1981 | Tv Show | A Fine Romance | Laura Dalton |
| 1981 | Movie | The Cherry Orchard | Mme. Ranevsky |
| 1981 | Movie | Going Gently | Sister Scarli |
| 1980 | Tv Show | Love in a Cold Climate | Aunt Sadie |
| 1979 | Movie | Village Wooing | Z |
| 1979 | Movie | On Giant's Shoulders | Hazel Wiles |
| 1979 | Movie | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth |
| 1978 | Movie | The Comedy of Errors | Adriana |
| 1978 | Movie | Langrishe, Go Down | Imogen Langrishe |
| 1978 | Tv Show | An Audience with... | Self |
| 1976 | Movie | My Homeland | Reader |
| 1974 | Movie | Dead Cert | Laura Davidson |
| 1974 | Tv Show | Playhouse | Sister Scarli |
| 1974 | Tv Show | Playhouse | - |
| 1974 | Movie | Luther | Katharina |
| 1968 | Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania |
| 1968 | Tv Show | Ooh La La! | Amélie |
| 1966 | Tv Show | Talking to a Stranger | Terry Stevens - Daughter |
| 1965 | Movie | Four in the Morning | Wife ("Judi") |
| 1965 | Movie | A Study in Terror | Sally |
| 1965 | Movie | He Who Rides a Tiger | Joanne |
| 1964 | Movie | The Third Secret | Miss Ada Humphries |
| 1962 | Movie | The Cherry Orchard | Anya |
| 1960 | Tv Show | An Age of Kings | Katherine |
| 1960 | Tv Show | An Age of Kings | - |
| 1956 | Tv Show | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter/Winner |
| 1953 | Tv Show | The Oscars | Self |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Tv Show | Hububb | Writing |
| 1989 | Movie | Look Back in Anger | Directing |