Judi Dench
Known for Acting · 181 credits
- Born
- 1934-12-09 (age 91)
- Place of birth
- York, North Yorkshire, England
- Also known as
- Dame Judi Dench · Judy Dench · Judith Olivia Dench · Джудит Оливия Денч
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.
Known For
TV Shows (46)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Winner
The One Show
2006
as Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Elizabeth Moris
Countryfile
1988
as Self
Playhouse
1974
as Sister Scarli
Omnibus
1967
as Self - Reading Poetry
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Imogen Langrishe / Helen Wiles
Theatre 625
1964
as Valentine Wannop / Terry Stevens
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Helen Payle / Z
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
Going Live!
1987
as Self
The BAFTA Awards
1949
as Self
HBO First Look
1992
as Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Performance
1991
as Christine Foskett
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Cecily
Remembers…
2022
as Self
As Time Goes By
1992
as Jean Pargetter
Festival
1963
as Angela Thwaites
Staged
2020
as Judi
Screen One
1989
as Anne
Detective
1964
as Charlotte Revel
Cranford
2007
as Miss Matilda Jenkyns
Vicious
2013
as Judi Dench (voice, uncredited)
Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)
An Age of Kings
1960
as Katherine of Valois
Theatre Night
1985
as Helene Alving
Ooh La La!
1968
as Amélie
Middlemarch
1994
Angelina Ballerina
2001
as Miss Lilly (voice)
A Fine Romance
1981
as Laura Dalton
Louis Theroux Interviews
2022
as Self
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023
as Self
Confession
1970
as Woman
Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
Love in a Cold Climate
1980
as Aunt Sadie
Behaving Badly
1989
as Bridget Mayor
Talking to a Stranger
1966
as Terry Stevens - Daughter
Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
2019
as Self
Movies (135)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
as Society Lady
Pride & Prejudice
2005
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Skyfall
2012
as M
Casino Royale
2006
as M
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
as Miss Avocet
Spectre
2015
as M (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Princess Dragomiroff
Quantum of Solace
2008
as M
GoldenEye
1995
as M
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
as The Fridge (voice)
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as M
Die Another Day
2002
as M
The World Is Not Enough
1999
as M
Home on the Range
2004
as Mrs. Caloway (voice)
Tulip Fever
2017
as The Abbess of St. Ursula
Spirited
2022
as Dame Judi Dench
Shakespeare in Love
1998
as Queen Elizabeth
Chocolat
2000
as Armande Voizin
My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Dame Sybil Thorndike
Notes on a Scandal
2006
as Barbara Covett
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
as Aereon
Artemis Fowl
2020
as Commander Root
Red Joan
2018
as Joan Elizabeth Stanley
Jane Eyre
2011
as Mrs. Fairfax
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012
as Evelyn Greenslade
A Room with a View
1986
as Eleanor Lavish
J. Edgar
2011
as Anna Marie Hoover
Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Queen Victoria
Cats
2019
as Old Deuteronomy
Iris
2001
as Iris Murdoch
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
as Self
Belfast
2021
as Granny
Everything or Nothing
2012
as Self
Hamlet
1996
as Hecuba
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as Nora Doel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
as Evelyn Greenslade
Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Ursula
Philomena
2013
as Philomena
Joke
2026
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020
as Miss Rocholl
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
as Lady Bracknell
Village Wooing
1979
as Z
Absolute Hell
1991
as Christine Foskett
Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Nine
2009
as Lilli
The Browning Version
1985
as Millie Crocker-Harris
My Homeland
1976
as Reader
Going Gently
1981
as Sister Scarli
All Is True
2018
as Anne Shakespeare
Bond Girls Are Forever
2002
as Herself
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
as Mrs. Laura Henderson
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015
as Mrs. Silver
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Mme. Ranevsky
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
as Dorrie Edgehill
The Big Night In
2020
as Self
Henry V
1989
as Mistress Quickly
The Shipping News
2001
as Agnis Hamm
Jack & Sarah
1995
as Margaret
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Blithe Spirit
2020
as Madame Arcati
Tea with Mussolini
1999
as Arabella
Stars in Shorts
2012
as Mary
The Third Secret
1964
as Miss Ada Humphries
Friend Request Pending
2011
as Mary
Mrs Brown
1997
as Queen Victoria
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995
as Self
A Handful of Dust
1988
as Mrs. Beaver
Doogal
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Allelujah
2023
as Mary
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
as Barbara Dean
A Study in Terror
1965
as Sally
A Dairy Tale
2004
as Mrs. Calloway (voice)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Titania
The Comedy of Errors
1978
as Adriana
The Life of Shakespeare
2002
as self
Run For Your Wife
2012
as Bag Lady
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Self
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995
as Self
On Giant's Shoulders
1979
as Hazel Wiles
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
as Self
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
2002
as Self
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2000
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Off the Rails
2021
as Diana
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
The Cherry Orchard
1962
as Anya
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
as Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")
Macbeth
1979
as Lady Macbeth
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
2002
as Self
Luther
1974
as Katharina
Langrishe, Go Down
1978
as Imogen Langrishe
Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998
as Self
Bugs!
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Wetherby
1985
as Marcia Pilborough
Into the Woods
2011
as The Giant (voice)
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990
as Anne
Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
2003
as Miss Lilly (voice)
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Four in the Morning
1965
as Wife ("Judi")
The Angelic Conversation
1987
as (voice)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Elizabeth
He Who Rides a Tiger
1965
as Joanne
The Vote
2015
as Christine Metcalfe
Rage
2009
as Mona Carvell
Ghosts
1987
as Helene Alving
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
2002
as Self
Letters to My Younger Future Self
2026
Make and Break
1987
as Mrs. Rogers
Dead Cert
1974
as Laura Davidson
Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance
2005
as Miss Lilly (voice)
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016
as Self
Tea with Judi Dench
2025
as Self
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
2005
as Miss Lilly (voice)
Quintessentially British
2022
as Self
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive material)
Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
2025
as Self
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
as Paulina
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002
as Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
About Judi Dench
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 stron… With 181 credits spanning from 1949 to 2026, Judi Dench has appeared in 135 films and 46 TV shows.
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- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) — as Society Lady
- Pride & Prejudice (2005) — as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Skyfall (2012) — as M
- Casino Royale (2006) — as M
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) — as Miss Avocet
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