Actor
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 theatr ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple | Self
2023 -- The Coronation Concert | Self (archive footage)
2023 -- Allelujah | Mary
2022 -- Spirited | Dame Judi Dench
2022 -- Quintessentially British | Self
2022 -- Born to be The King | Narrator
2022 -- Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Self (archive footage)
2022 -- I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth | Self
2022 -- Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self
2021 -- Belfast | Granny
2021 -- Being James Bond | M (archive footage)
2021 -- Off the Rails | Diana
2021 -- The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre | Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)
2020 -- Blithe Spirit | Madame Arcati
2020 -- Six Minutes to Midnight | Miss Rocholl
2020 -- Artemis Fowl | Commander Root
2019 -- Cats | Old Deuteronomy
2018 -- All Is True | Anne Shakespeare
2018 -- Red Joan | Joan Elizabeth Stanley
2018 -- Palo Santo | Mother of Palo Santo
2018 -- Nothing Like a Dame | Self
2017 -- Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees | Self
2017 -- Murder on the Orient Express | Princess Dragomiroff
2017 -- Victoria & Abdul | Queen Victoria
2017 -- Tulip Fever | The Abbess of St. Ursula
2016 -- Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage | Self
2016 -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Miss Avocet
2016 -- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer
2015 -- Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale | Paulina
2015 -- Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive material)
2015 -- Spectre | M (uncredited)
2015 -- The Vote | Christine Metcalfe
2015 -- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Evelyn Greenslade
2015 -- Roald Dahl's Esio Trot | Mrs. Silver
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- Six by Sondheim | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
2013 -- Philomena | Philomena
2013 -- Muse of Fire | Self
2012 -- Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars | Self
2012 -- Skyfall | M
2012 -- Everything or Nothing | Self
2012 -- Stars In Shorts | Mary
2012 -- Run For Your Wife | Bag Lady
2012 -- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Evelyn Greenslade
2011 -- My Week with Marilyn | Dame Sybil Thorndike
2011 -- J. Edgar | Anna Marie Hoover
2011 -- Friend Request Pending | Mary
2011 -- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Society Lady
2011 -- Into the Woods | The Giant (voice)
2011 -- Jane Eyre | Mrs. Fairfax
2011 -- James Bond Supports International Women's Day | M (voice)
2009 -- Nine | Lilli
2009 -- Rage | Mona Carvell
2008 -- Quantum of Solace | M
2006 -- Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett
2006 -- Casino Royale | M
2006 -- Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail | Miss Lilly (voice)
2006 -- Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles |
2006 -- Doogal | Narrator (voice)
2005 -- Pride & Prejudice | Catherine de Bourgh
2005 -- Mrs. Henderson Presents | Mrs. Laura Henderson
2005 -- Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance | Miss Lilly (voice)
2005 -- We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom | Narrator
2004 -- Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Miss Lilly (voice)
2004 -- Ladies in Lavender | Ursula
2004 -- A Dairy Tale | Mrs. Calloway (voice)
2004 -- The Chronicles of Riddick | Aereon
2004 -- Home on the Range | Mrs. Caloway (voice)
2003 -- Bugs! | Narrator (voice)
2002 -- Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute | Self
2002 -- Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre | Self
2002 -- Best Ever Bond | Self
2002 -- Die Another Day: From Script to Screen | Self
2002 -- Die Another Day | M
2002 -- Bond Girls Are Forever | M (archive footage)
2002 -- The Importance of Being Earnest | Lady Bracknell
2002 -- Shaken and Stirred on Ice | Self
2002 -- The Life of Shakespeare | self
2002 -- Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening | Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
2001 -- The Shipping News | Agnis Hamm
2001 -- Iris | Iris Murdoch
2000 -- Chocolat | Armande Voizin
2000 -- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Narrator (voice)
2000 -- The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Elizabeth
1999 -- The World Is Not Enough | M
1999 -- Tea with Mussolini | Arabella
1999 -- Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years |
1998 -- Shakespeare in Love | Queen Elizabeth
1998 -- Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")
1998 -- Highly Classified: The World of 007 |
1997 -- Tomorrow Never Dies | M
1997 -- Mrs Brown | Queen Victoria
1996 -- Hamlet | Hecuba
1995 -- Goldeneye: The Secret Files | Self
1995 -- GoldenEye | M
1995 -- Jack & Sarah | Margaret
1995 -- GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast | Self
1992 -- J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973 | Narrator
1991 -- Absolute Hell | Christine Foskett
1990 -- Can You Hear Me Thinking? | Anne
1989 -- Henry V | Mistress Quickly
1988 -- One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage | Self (uncredited)
1988 -- An Audience With Victoria Wood | Self
1988 -- A Handful of Dust | Mrs. Beaver
1987 -- Ghosts | Helene Alving
1987 -- 84 Charing Cross Road | Nora Doel
1987 -- Make and Break | Mrs. Rogers
1985 -- The Browning Version | Millie Crocker-Harris
1985 -- Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill | Dorrie Edgehill
1985 -- A Room with a View | Eleanor Lavish
1985 -- Wetherby | Marcia Pilborough
1985 -- The Angelic Conversation | (voice)
1983 -- Saigon: Year Of The Cat | Barbara Dean
1981 -- The Cherry Orchard | Mme. Ranevsky
1981 -- Going Gently | Sister Scarli
1979 -- Village Wooing | Z
1979 -- On Giant's Shoulders | Hazel Wiles
1979 -- Macbeth | Lady Macbeth
1978 -- The Comedy of Errors | Adriana
1978 -- Langrishe, Go Down | Imogen Langrishe
1976 -- My Homeland | Reader
1974 -- Dead Cert | Laura Davidson
1974 -- Luther | Katharina
1968 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania
1965 -- Four in the Morning | Wife ("Judi")
1965 -- He Who Rides a Tiger | Joanne
1965 -- A Study in Terror | Sally
1964 -- The Third Secret | Miss Ada Humphries
1962 -- The Cherry Orchard | Anya
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