Judi Dench

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1934-12-09 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

York, North Yorkshire, England

Judi Dench

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 est...

Acting

2000

Chocolat

as Armande Voizin

2006

Notes on a Scandal

as Barbara Covett

1995

2009

Nine

as Lilli

1996

Hamlet

as Hecuba

1998

Shakespeare in Love

as Queen Elizabeth

1999

1995

Jack & Sarah

as Margaret

1989

Henry V

as Mistress Quickly

2005

Mrs. Henderson Presents

as Mrs. Laura Henderson

2005

Pride & Prejudice

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

2001

The Shipping News

as Agnis Hamm

1986

A Room with a View

as Eleanor Lavish

2006

Doogal

as Narrator (voice)

2004

A Dairy Tale

as Mrs. Calloway (voice)

2001

Iris

as Iris Murdoch

2002

2004

2023

Allelujah

as Mary

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever

as M (archive footage)

2009

Rage

as Mona Carvell

2004

Home on the Range

as Mrs. Caloway (voice)

1979

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

2021

Being James Bond

as M (archive footage)

1965

2012

1987

2003

Bugs!

as Narrator (voice)

2011

Jane Eyre

as Mrs. Fairfax

1988

A Handful of Dust

as Mrs. Beaver

1997

Mrs Brown

as Queen Victoria

2023

The Coronation Concert

as Self (archive footage)

2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

as Evelyn Greenslade

2011

My Week with Marilyn

as Dame Sybil Thorndike

1974

Dead Cert

as Laura Davidson

2002

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

as Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"

2011

J. Edgar

as Anna Marie Hoover

1981

The Cherry Orchard

as Mme. Ranevsky

1978

Langrishe, Go Down

as Imogen Langrishe

1987

Ghosts

as Helene Alving

1965

Four in the Morning

as Wife ("Judi")

1985

Wetherby

as Marcia Pilborough

2012

2012

2013

Philomena

as Philomena

1998

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

as Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")

2013

1991

Absolute Hell

as Christine Foskett

1987

Make and Break

as Mrs. Rogers

2017

Tulip Fever

as The Abbess of St. Ursula

2022

2015

2015

The Vote

as Christine Metcalfe

2022

Spirited

as Dame Judi Dench

2002

2022

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Spectre

as M (uncredited)

1981

Going Gently

as Sister Scarli

2016

1983

2015

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive material)

1974

Luther

as Katharina

2017

Murder on the Orient Express

as Princess Dragomiroff

2017

Victoria & Abdul

as Queen Victoria

1985

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

as Dorrie Edgehill

2013

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

as Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt

1976

My Homeland

as Reader

1985

The Browning Version

as Millie Crocker-Harris

2018

Red Joan

as Joan Elizabeth Stanley

2013

Six by Sondheim

as Self (archive footage)

1979

On Giant's Shoulders

as Hazel Wiles

2020

Artemis Fowl

as Commander Root

2018

Palo Santo

as Mother of Palo Santo

2019

Cats

as Old Deuteronomy

2018

All Is True

as Anne Shakespeare

1964

The Third Secret

as Miss Ada Humphries

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Blithe Spirit

as Madame Arcati

2020

2011

Into the Woods

as The Giant (voice)

1978

2021

2021

Belfast

as Granny

2021

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

as Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)

Production

1989

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