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Her film appearances had been infrequent until she was cast as ] in '']'' (1996), a role she has played in each ] film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as ] in '']'' (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as '']'' (1998), '']'' (2000), '']'' (2001), '']'' (2005) and '']'' (2006), and the television production '']'' (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 ]s, seven ]s, two ], two ]s, an ], and a ].

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She was married to the actor ] from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of the actress ].


== Life == == Life ==
Dench was born in Heworth, ], ], the daughter of Eleanora Olave Jones, a native of ], and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor who met Judi's mother while studying medicine at ].<ref>{{cite news | author=Staff writers | title=The Importance of Dame Judi | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2241129.stm | work=BBC News | date=6 September 2002| accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref> Dench, a ], was raised a Methodist until she attended The Mount School, a ] Public Secondary school in York, and lived in ], ].<ref>{{cite news | author=Michael Billington | title=Please God, not retirement | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/oscars2006/story/0,,1699880,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=12 September 2005| accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Michael Billington | title=Judi Dench: Nothing like the Dame | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/Guardian/0,,44053,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=23 March 1998| accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref> Notable relatives include her older brother, actor ], and her niece, Emma Dench, a ] historian previously at ], and currently at ], ]. Dench was born in Heworth, ], ], the daughter of Eleanora Olave Jones, a native of ], and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor who met Judi's mother while studying medicine at ].<ref>{{cite news | author=Staff writers | title=The Importance of Dame Judi | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2241129.stm | work=BBC News | date=6 September 2002| accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref> Dench, a ], was raised a Methodist until she attended The Mount School, a ] Public Secondary school in York, and lived in ], ].<ref>{{cite news | author=Michael Billington | title=Please God, not retirement | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/oscars2006/story/0,,1699880,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=12 September 2005| accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Michael Billington | title=Judi Dench: Nothing like the Dame | url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/Guardian/0,,44053,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=23 March 1998| accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref> Notable relatives include her older brother, actor ], and her niece, Emma Dench, a ] historian previously at ], and currently at ], ].


When Dench was 13, she entered ]. In 1971, Dench married British actor ] and they had their only child, Tara Cressida Williams (aka "]"), on ], ]. She has followed the family's theatrical tradition, becoming a highly accomplished actress. When Dench was 13, she entered ]. In 1971, Dench married British actor ] and they had their only child, Tara Cressida Williams, known professionally as ], on 24 September 1972.

Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions, as well as separately, but then paired again to make television history with ]'s hit British sitcom, '']'' (1981&ndash;84). Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions, as well as separately, but then paired again to make television history with ]'s hit British sitcom, '']'' (1981&ndash;84).



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Judi Dench
at the 2007 BAFTAs
BornJudith Olivia Dench
OccupationActress
Years active1957–present
Spouse(s)Michael Williams
(1971-2001) (his death)

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.

Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and 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 had been infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1996), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. 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.

Dench was awarded the OBE in 1970, became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1988, and a Companion of Honour in 2005.

She was married to the actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of the actress Finty Williams.

Life

Dench was born in Heworth, York, North Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Eleanora Olave Jones, a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor who met Judi's mother while studying medicine at Trinity College. Dench, a Quaker, was raised a Methodist until she attended The Mount School, a Quaker Public Secondary school in York, and lived in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester. Notable relatives include her older brother, actor Jeffrey Dench, and her niece, Emma Dench, a Roman historian previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

When Dench was 13, she entered The Mount School, York. In 1971, Dench married British actor Michael Williams and they had their only child, Tara Cressida Williams, known professionally as Finty Williams, on 24 September 1972.

Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions, as well as separately, but then paired again to make television history with Bob Larbey's hit British sitcom, A Fine Romance (1981–84).

Michael Williams died from lung cancer in 2001, aged 65.

Public life

In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her forte throughout her career. She has more than once been named number one in polls for Britain's best actress. Research to find "the perfect voice" has indicated that Dench's voice is one of the best.

Dench was awarded the OBE in 1970, became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1988, and a Companion of Honour in 2005. She gained worldwide popular fame after taking over the role of M in the James Bond film series in 1995, and subsequently through many acclaimed film appearances.

Dench is a patron of The Leaveners, Friends School Saffron Walden and the Archway Theatre, Horley, UK. She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir John Mills, and is also president of the Questors Theatre. In May 2006, she became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is also patron of Ovingdean Hall School, a special day and boarding school for the deaf and hard of hearing in Brighton.

Dench is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In 2000-2001 she received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University. On 24 June 2008, she was honoured by the University of St Andrews, receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) at the university's graduation ceremony.

Career

20 Century

Judi Dench trained as a set designer before taking up acting at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. Subsequently, she was involved on a non-professional basis in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays in the 1950s. Most famously, she played the role of the Virgin Mary in the 1957 production, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens.

In September 1957, she made her first professional stage appearance with the Old Vic Company, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, as Ophelia in Hamlet, then her London debut in the same production at the Old Vic. She remained a member of the company for four seasons, 1957–1961, her roles including Katherine in Henry V in 1958 (which was also her New York debut) and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in October 1960, directed and designed by Franco Zeffirelli. During this period, she toured the United States and Canada, and appeared in Yugoslavia and at the Edinburgh Festival.

She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in December 1961 playing Anya in The Cherry Orchard at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and made her Stratford-upon-Avon debut in April 1962 as Isabella in Measure for Measure. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory both with the Nottingham Playhouse from January 1963 (including a West African tour as Lady Macbeth for the British Council), and with the Oxford Playhouse Company from April 1964. That same year she made her film debut in The Third Secret.

In 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. As Sheridan Morley later reported: "At first she thought they were joking. She had never done a musical and she has an unusual croaky voice which sounds as if she has a permanent cold. So frightened was she of singing in public that she auditioned from the wings, leaving the pianists alone on stage". But when it opened at the Palace Theatre in February 1968, Frank Marcus, reviewing for Plays and Players, commented that: "She sings well. The title song in particular is projected with great feeling."

After a long run in Cabaret, she rejoined the RSC making numerous appearances with the company in Stratford and London over the next two decades, winning several best actress awards. Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971. In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's "British Raj" revival of Much Ado About Nothing. As Bernard Levin wrote in the Sunday Times: "...demonstrating once more that she is a comic actress of consummate skill, perhaps the very best we have."

But one of her most notable achievements with the RSC was her performance as Lady Macbeth in 1976. Nunn's acclaimed production of Macbeth was first staged with a minimalist design at The Other Place theatre in Stratford. Its small round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both Ian McKellen in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices. "If this is not great acting I don't know what is.": Michael Billington, The Guardian. "It will astonish me if the performance is matched by any in this actress's generation.": J C Trewin, The Lady. The production transferred to London, opening at the Donmar Warehouse in September 1977, was filmed for television, and later released on VHS and finally DVD. She won the SWET Best Actress Award in 1977.

She enjoyed a romantic pairing with Jeremy Irons in 1978, in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside.

Dench made her directing debut in 1988 with the Renaissance Theatre Company's touring season, Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, co-produced with the Birmingham Rep, and ending with a three month repertory programme at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Dench's contribution was a staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice. In the same season, Geraldine McEwan and Derek Jacobi also made their directorial debuts.

She has made numerous appearances in the West End including the role of Miss Trant in the 1974 musical version of The Good Companions at Her Majesty's Theatre. In 1981, Dench was due to play the title role of Grizabella in the original production of Cats, but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving Elaine Paige to play the role. She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.

In 1995, she became known to an international audience after taking over the role of M (James Bond's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with GoldenEye. She is the only actor from Pierce Brosnan's Bond films to remain in the rebooted franchise. She has appeared in Casino Royale (2006) and its direct sequel Quantum of Solace (2008).

She has won multiple awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards. She also won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in David Hare's Amy's View. Alongside her numerous award winning performances, she has also managed to take on the role of Director for a number of stage productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare in Love.

Judi Dench has frequently appeared with her close friend Geoffrey Palmer. They co-starred in the series As Time Goes By, where she played Jean Pargetter, becoming Jean Hardcastle after she married Lionel Hardcastle. The program spanned nine seasons. They also worked together on the films Mrs. Brown and Tomorrow Never Dies, both filmed in 1997. Dench has also lent her incredible voice to many animated characters, narrations, and various other voice work. She plays the role of "Miss Lilly" in the children's animated series Angelina Ballerina (alongside her daughter, Finty Williams, as the voice of Angelina) and as Mrs. Calloway in the Disney animated film Home on the Range. She has narrated various classical music recordings (notably Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Britten's Canticles-The Heart of the Matter), and has appeared in numerous BBC radio broadcasts as well as commercials. Her many television appearances include lead roles in the series A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By. In the U.S., As Time Goes By has been run repeatedly on PBS and on BBC America, and may be -- along with her Bond role -- the entity for which Dench is best known to American audiences.

21 Century

Dench remains one of the biggest draws on the London stage. She is often compared and contrasted with Dame Maggie Smith, another British actress of the same generation, with whom she has appeared in several movies, including Tea with Mussolini (1999) and Ladies in Lavender (2004), and on stage in David Hare's two-role play Breath of Life (Haymarket, October 2002). Dench returned to the West End stage in April 2006 in Hay Fever alongside Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang and Kim Medcalf.

She finished off a busy 2006 with the role of Mistress Quickly in the RSC's new musical The Merry Wives, a version of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Dench's more recent film career has been extremely successful. She successfully garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years: for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mrs Henderson Presents (a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre) in 2005; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

In 2007 the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet (1966), Keep an Eye on Amélie (1973), The Cherry Orchard (1981), Going Gently (1981), Ghosts (with Kenneth Branagh and Michael Gambon, 1987), Make and Break (with Robert Hardy, 1987), Can You Hear Me Thinking? (co-starring with her husband, Michael Williams, 1990) and Absolute Hell (1991).

Dench, as Miss Matty Jenkins, co-starred with Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis, in the BBC One five-part series Cranford. The series began transmission in the UK in November 2007, and on the BBC's U.S. producing partner station WGBH (PBS Boston) in spring 2008.

Dench narrated the updated Walt Disney World Epcot attraction Spaceship Earth.

In February 2008, she was named as the first official patron of the York Youth Mysteries 2008, a project to allow young people to explore the York Mystery Plays through dance, film-making and circus. This culminated on 21 June with a day of city centre performances in York.

She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum Of Solace and reprised her role as M.

She is also interested in Thoroughbred horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse "Smokey Oakey" who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.

She returns to the West End from 13 March-23 May 2009 in Yukio Mishima's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar season at Wyndham's Theatre.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1964 The Third Secret Miss Humphries
1965 Four in the Morning Wife BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
A Study in Terror Sally
He Who Rides a Tiger Joanne
1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania
1973 Luther Katherine
1974 Dead Cert Laura Davidson
1978 Langrishe, Go Down Imogen Langrishe (BBC TV film)
1985 The Angelic Conversation (narrator)
Wetherby Marcia Pilborough Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
A Room with a View Eleanor Lavish BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1987 84 Charing Cross Road Nora Doel Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1988 A Handful of Dust Mrs. Beaver BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1989 Henry V Mistress Quickly
Behaving Badly Bridget Mayor Channel 4 television serial
1995 Jack and Sarah Margaret
GoldenEye M
1996 Hamlet Hecuba
1997 Mrs. Brown Queen Victoria BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Tomorrow Never Dies M
1998 Shakespeare in Love Queen Elizabeth Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nomination — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nomination — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
1999 Tea with Mussolini Arabella
The World Is Not Enough M
2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (narrator) (documentary)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Elizabeth (TV)
Chocolat Armande Voizin Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2001 Iris Iris Murdoch BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nomination — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
The Shipping News Agnis Hamm Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nomination — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Augusta Bracknell
Die Another Day M
2003 Bugs! (narrator) (short subject)
2004 Home on the Range Mrs. Caloway (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick Aereon
Ladies in Lavender Ursula
2005 Pride & Prejudice Lady Catherine de Bourg
Mrs Henderson Presents Mrs. Laura Henderson Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nomination — British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nomination — London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Nomination — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2006 Doogal (narrator)
Casino Royale M Nominated — National Movie Award for Best Actress
Notes on a Scandal Barbara Covett British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nomination — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nomination — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nomination — London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Nomination — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nomination — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nomination — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
2007 Go Inside to Greet the Light (narrator)
2008 Quantum of Solace M
2009 Rage Mona Carvell
Nine Liliane La Fleur post-production
2011 Bond 23 M announced

She has also lent her likeness and voice for the role of M in James Bond video games:

Theatre work

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Source: "Judi Dench: With a Crack in her Voice" by John Miller

As an actress

St Mary's Abbey

  • 1957
York Mystery Plays - Virgin Mary

The Old Vic Company

  • 1957
Hamlet - Ophelia
Measure for Measure - Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream - First Fairy
  • 1958
Twelfth Night - Maria (also USA tour)
Henry V - Katharine (also USA tour)
  • 1959
The Double Dealer - Cynthia
As You Like It - Phebe
The Importance of Being Earnest - Cecily
The Merry Wives of Windsor - Anne Page
  • 1960
Richard II - Queen
Romeo and Juliet - Juliet (also Venice Festival)
She Stoops to Conquer - Kate Hardcastle
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Hermia
Also walk-on roles in King Lear and Henry VI)

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 1961
The Cherry Orchard - Anya, Aldwych Theatre
  • 1962
Measure for Measure - Isabella, Stratford
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Titania, Stratford
A Penny for a Song - Dorcas Bellboys, Aldwych

The Nottingham Playhouse Company

  • 1963
Macbeth - Lady Macbeth (also West Africa tour)
Twelfth Night - Viola (also West Africa tour)
A Shot in the Dark - Josefa Lautenay, Lyric Theatre

The Oxford Playhouse Company

  • 1964
Three Sisters - Irina
The Twelfth Hour - Anna
  • 1965
The Alchemist - Dol Common
Romeo and Jeannette - Jeannette
The Firescreen - Jacqueline

The Nottingham Playhouse Company

  • 1965
Measure for Measure - Isabella
Private Lives - Amanda
  • 1966
The Country Wife - Margery Pinchwife
The Astrakhan Coat - Barbara
St Joan - Joan

The Oxford Playhouse Company

  • 1966
The Promise - Lika
The Rules of the Game - Silia
  • 1967
The Promise - Lika, Fortune Theatre

Palace Theatre

  • 1968
Cabaret - Sally Bowles

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 1969
The Winter's Tale - Hermione and Perdita, Stratford
Women Beware Women - Bianca, Stratford
Twelfth Night - Viola, Stratford
  • 1970
London Assurance - Grace Harkaway, Aldwych
Major Barbara - Barbara Undershaft, Aldwych
  • 1971
The Merchant of Venice - Portia, Stratford
The Duchess of Malfi - Duchess, Stratford
Toad of Toad Hall - Fielfmouse, Stoat and Mother Rabbit, Stratford

No Company

  • 1973
Context to Whisper - Aurelia, Royal, York
The Wolf - Vilma, Oxford Playhouse (also at Apollo, Queen's & New London)
  • 1974
The Good Companions - Miss Trant, Her Majesty's
  • 1975
The Gay Lord Quex - Sophy Fullgarney, Albery

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 1975
Too True to Be Good - Sweetie Simpkins, Aldwych
  • 1976
Much Ado About Nothing - Beatrice, Stratford
Macbeth - Lady Macbeth, Stratford (also Donmar Warehouse and Young Vic)
The Comedy of Errors - Adriana, Stratford
King Lear - Regan, Stratford
  • 1977
Pillars of the Community - Lona Hessel, Aldwych
  • 1978
The Way of the World - Millamant, Aldwych
  • 1979
Cymbeline - Imogen, Stratford
  • 1980
Juno and the Paycock - Juno Boyle, Aldwych

No Company

  • 1981
A Village Wooing - Young Woman, New End

The National Theatre Company

  • 1982
The Importance of Being Ernest - Lady Bracknell, Lyttleton
A King of Alaska - Deborah, Cottesloe
  • 1983
Pack of Lies - Barbara Jackson, Lyric

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 1984
Mother Courage - Mother Courage, Barbican
Waste 0 Amy O'Connell, Barbican and Lyric

No Company

  • 1986
Mr and Mrs Nobody - Carrie Pooter, Garrick

The National Theatre Company

  • 1987
Antony and Cleopatra - Cleopatra, Olivier
Entertaining Strangers - Sarah Eldridge, Cottesloe
  • 1989
Hamlet - Gertrude, Olivier
The Cherry Orchard - Ranevskaya, Aldwych
  • 1991
The Plough and the Stars - Bessie Burgess, Young Vic

The National Theatre Company

  • 1991
The Sea - Mrs Rafi, Lyttleton
  • 1992
Coriolanus - Volumnia, Chichester

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 1992
The Gift of the Gorgon - Helen Damson, Barbican and Wyndham's

The National Theatre Company

  • 1994
The Seagull - Arkadina, Olivier
  • 1995
Absolute Hell - Christine Foskett, Lyttleton
A Little Night Music - Desirée Armfeldt, Olivier
  • 1997
Amy's View - Esmé, Lyttleton
  • 1998
Amy's View - Esmé, Aldwych

No Company

  • 1998
Filumena - Filumena, Piccadilly
  • 1999
Amy's View - Esmé, Barrymore, New York
  • 2001
The Royal Family - Fanny Cavendish, Theatre Royal Haymarket
  • 2002
The Breath of Life - Frances, Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 2003
All's Well That Ends Well - The Countess, Stratford and Gielgud

No Company

  • 2006
Hay Fever - Judith Bliss, Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Royal Shakespeare Company

  • 2006
The Merry Wives - The Musical - Mistress Quickly, Stratford

Donmar Warehouse

  • 2009
Madame de Sade - Wyndham's Theatre

As a director

Discography

Awards and nominations

Theatre

Awards

Television

Awards
Nominations

References

  1. Staff writers (6 September 2002). "The Importance of Dame Judi". BBC News. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  2. Michael Billington (12 September 2005). "Please God, not retirement". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  3. Michael Billington (23 March 1998). "Judi Dench: Nothing like the Dame". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  4. "Hopkins and Dench named best British actors". The Guardian. 18 August 2005. Retrieved 2006-12-29.
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Further reading

  • Herbert, Ian (1981). Who's Who in the Theatre (17th ed.). Detroit: Gale. ISBN 0273017179. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Billington, Michael (1993). One Night Stands: A critic's view of British theatre from 1971-1991. London: Nick Hern Books. ISBN 1854591851. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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M (James Bond) actor
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Awards and achievements
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for A Month in the Country
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
1977
for Macbeth
Succeeded byDorothy Tutin
for The Double Dealer
Awards and achievements
Academy Award
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for L.A. Confidential
Best Supporting Actress
for Shakespeare in Love
1999
Succeeded byAngelina Jolie
for Girl, Interrupted
Preceded byZoe Wanamaker
for Once in a Lifetime
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
1980
for Juno and the Paycock
Succeeded byMargaret Tyzack
for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Preceded byPeggy Ashcroft
for Cream in My Coffee
Best TV Actress
1982
for
A Fine Romance
Succeeded byBeryl Reid
for Smiley's People
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for 84 Charing Cross Road
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
1983
for Pack of Lies
Succeeded byThuli Dumakude
for Poppie Nongena
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for Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
1987
for Antony and Cleopatra
Succeeded byFiona Shaw
for As You Like It
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for Desperately Seeking Susan
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1986
for A Room with a View
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for Hope and Glory
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for Sweet Bird of Youth
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1996
for Absolute Hell
Succeeded byJanet McTeer
for A Doll's House
Preceded byRuthie Henshall
for She Loves Me
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
1996
for A Little Night Music
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for Passion
Preceded byBrenda Blethyn
for Secrets & Lies
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1997
for Mrs. Brown
Succeeded byCate Blanchett
for Elizabeth
Preceded byBrenda Blethyn
for Secrets & Lies
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1998
for Mrs. Brown
Succeeded byCate Blanchett
for Elizabeth
Preceded bySigourney Weaver
for The Ice Storm
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1998
for Shakespeare in Love
Succeeded byMaggie Smith
for Tea with Mussolini
Preceded byRosanna Arquette
for Desperately Seeking Susan
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1968
for Talking to a Stranger
Succeeded bySusan Wooldridge
for Hope and Glory
Preceded byThora Hird
for Lost for Words
Best TV Actress
2001
for The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Succeeded byJulie Walters
for My Beautiful Son
Preceded bySam Mendes Laurence Olivier Society Special Award
2004
Succeeded byAlan Bennett
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1936–1950
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1976–2000
2001–present
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Society of London Theatre Special Award
Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play
1947–1975
1976–2000
2001–present

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