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 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.
184 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 184
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
Tony Awards
1956
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Playhouse
1974
Omnibus
1967
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
The Oscars
1953
ITV Playhouse
1967
Theatre 625
1964
An Audience with...
1978
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Pebble Mill
1991
Countryfile
1988
Going Live!
1987
Performance
1991
Casino Royale
2006
Parkinson
1998
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
HBO First Look
1992
The Hollow Crown
2012
Festival
1963
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
Skyfall
2012
Spectre
2015
As Time Goes By
1992
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
Remembers…
2022
GoldenEye
1995
Staged
2020
Quantum of Solace
2008
Die Another Day
2002
Cranford
2007
Detective
1964
Screen One
1989
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Home on the Range
2004
The World Is Not Enough
1999
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Chocolat
2000
Vicious
2013
An Age of Kings
1960
Talking Pictures
2013
Cats
2019
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Shakespeare in Love
1998
Middlemarch
1994
Jane Eyre
2011
Artemis Fowl
2020
Spirited
2022
A Room with a View
1986
Angelina Ballerina
2001
Theatre Night
1985
Hamlet
1996
Notes on a Scandal
2006
Nine
2009
Ooh La La!
1968
The Shipping News
2001
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Tulip Fever
2017
Belfast
2021
J. Edgar
2011
A Fine Romance
1981
Victoria & Abdul
2017
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012
Henry V
1989
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
Behaving Badly
1989
Iris
2001
Love in a Cold Climate
1980
Louis Theroux Interviews
2022
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023
Blithe Spirit
2020
Ladies in Lavender
2004
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
Philomena
2013
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
Talking to a Stranger
1966
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
All Is True
2018
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020
Rage
2009
Red Joan
2018
Doogal
2006
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
2019
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
Mrs Brown
1997
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
Jack & Sarah
1995
A Handful of Dust
1988
Six by Sondheim
2013
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
2002
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
Muse of Fire
2013
Allelujah
2023
Everything or Nothing
2012
Live from Studio Five
2009
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015
Tea with Mussolini
1999
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Stars in Shorts
2012
Best Ever Bond
2002
Wetherby
1985
The Vote
2015
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
Macbeth
1979
A Study in Terror
1965
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
2002
Ghosts
1987
Into the Woods
2011
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999
Joke
2026
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Run For Your Wife
2012
The Cherry Orchard
1962
The Big Night In
2020
The Coronation Concert
2023
The Third Secret
1964
Luther
1974
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
2011
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2000
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Off the Rails
2021
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
The Cherry Orchard
1981
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006
Dead Cert
1974
Bugs!
2003
A Dairy Tale
2004
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
Palo Santo
2018
Absolute Hell
1991
Four in the Morning
1965
The Comedy of Errors
1978
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
The Angelic Conversation
1987
Friend Request Pending
2011
Langrishe, Go Down
1978
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
2021
Quintessentially British
2022
Going Gently
1981
He Who Rides a Tiger
1965
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002
Village Wooing
1979
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
2002
Born to be The King
2022
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
2005
On Giant's Shoulders
1979
The Browning Version
1985
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
1992
Make and Break
1987
Tea with Judi Dench
2025
The Life of Shakespeare
2002
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004
Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
2017
We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
2005
Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
2024
Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck
2006
Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
2004
Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
2025
I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
2022
Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
2002
Morecambe & Wise: The Unseen Tapes
2025
Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance
2005
My Homeland
1976
Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
2003
