Judi Dench

Acting · Born 1934-12-09 in York, North Yorkshire, England

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…

Filmography

• Chocolat as Armande Voizin
• Notes on a Scandal as Barbara Covett
• Hamlet as Hecuba
• Henry V as Mistress Quickly
• Pride & Prejudice as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
• A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish
• Casino Royale as M
• Skyfall as M
• 84 Charing Cross Road as Nora Doel
• Jane Eyre as Mrs. Fairfax

TV

• As Time Goes By as Jean Pargetter
• The One Show as Self
• Staged as Judi
• A Fine Romance as Laura Dalton
• Talking to a Stranger as Terry Stevens - Daughter
• Middlemarch
• Cranford as Miss Matilda Jenkyns
• Behaving Badly as Bridget Mayor
• Pebble Mill as Self
• The Oscars as Self