| Judi Dench  AKA Judith Olivia Dench
Born: 9-Dec-1934
Birthplace: York, North Yorkshire, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Quaker
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: Mrs. Brown Judi Dench's father was the official physician for the Theatre Royal, which inspired Dench toward acting. Her first role was as a snail in a grade school play, and her debut role with the Old Vic Company was the Virgin Mary, in 1957. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961, and has played Ophelia, Titania, Lady Macbeth, and hundreds of other roles on stage. On film, Dench's résumé stretches back to 1964, when she had a small role in the Stephen Boyd psychothriller The Third Secret. Her early film career sputtered, and one director famously told her after an audition, "Miss Dench, you have every single thing wrong with your face." She has won five BAFTAs (the British equivalent of Oscars), but for most Americans, she first drew attention when she was cast as "M", James Bond's boss in the 007 movies, beginning with GoldenEye in 1995.
On television, she played Jean Pargeter in the 1990s elder Brit romantic sitcom As Time Goes By. In an earlier sitcom, A Fine Romance, she starred opposite her long-time husband, Michael Williams. They met in 1969, and were married from 1972 until his death of cancer in 2002.
Her first leading role was as Queen Victoria in 1997's Mrs. Brown. The next year she won an Oscar for eight minutes of screen time as Queen Elizabeth I, in Shakespeare in Love.
Father: Reginald Dench (doctor, d. 1964)
Mother: Olave Dench (amateur actress)
Husband: Michael Williams (actor, m. 5-Feb-1971, d. 11-Jan-2001 cancer)
Daughter: Tara Cressida Frances Williams ("Finty", actress, b. 24-Sep-1972)
High School: Mount School, York
University: Central School of Speech and Drama
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 1999 for Shakespeare in Love
Golden Globe 1998 Best Actress for Mrs. Brown
Golden Globe 2001 for Last of the Blonde Bombshells (miniseries)
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1977 for Macbeth
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1980 for Juno and the Paycock
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1984 for Pack of Lies
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1987 for Antony and Cleopatra
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1996 for Absolute Hell
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1996 for A Little Night Music
Dame of the British Empire 1988
TELEVISION
As Time Goes By Jean Hardcastle (1992-2005)
A Fine Romance Laura Dalton (1981-84)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Look Back in Anger (1989)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
All Is True (21-Dec-2018)
Red Joan (7-Sep-2018)
Murder on the Orient Express (3-Nov-2017)
Victoria & Abdul (3-Sep-2017)
Tulip Fever (13-Jul-2017)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (25-Sep-2016)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (26-Feb-2015)
Philomena (31-Aug-2013)
Skyfall (23-Oct-2012)
Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (5-Oct-2012) · Herself
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (30-Nov-2011) · Evelyn Greenslade
J. Edgar (3-Nov-2011) · Annie Hoover
My Week with Marilyn (9-Oct-2011) · Dame Sybil Thorndike
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (11-May-2011) · Society Lady
Jane Eyre (11-Mar-2011) · Mrs. Fairfax
Nine (3-Dec-2009)
Quantum of Solace (29-Oct-2008)
Cranford (18-Nov-2007)
Notes on a Scandal (25-Dec-2006)
Casino Royale (14-Nov-2006)
Doogal (24-Feb-2006) · Narrator [VOICE]
Pride & Prejudice (11-Sep-2005)
Mrs. Henderson Presents (9-Sep-2005)
Ladies in Lavender (17-Sep-2004) · Ursula
The Chronicles of Riddick (3-Jun-2004) · Aereon
Home on the Range (21-Mar-2004) [VOICE]
Bugs! (12-Jun-2003) · Narrator [VOICE]
Die Another Day (18-Nov-2002) · M
The Importance of Being Earnest (17-May-2002) · Lady Bracknell
The Shipping News (18-Dec-2001) · Agnis Hamm
Iris (14-Dec-2001)
Chocolat (15-Dec-2000) · Armande Voizin
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (7-Sep-2000) · Narrator
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (26-Aug-2000)
The World Is Not Enough (8-Nov-1999) · M
Tea with Mussolini (26-Mar-1999) · Arabella
Shakespeare in Love (3-Dec-1998) · Queen Elizabeth
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (8-Nov-1998)
Tomorrow Never Dies (19-Dec-1997) · M
Mrs. Brown (18-Jul-1997) · Queen Victoria
Hamlet (25-Dec-1996)
GoldenEye (17-Nov-1995) · M
Jack and Sarah (2-Jun-1995)
Middlemarch (12-Jan-1994)
Henry V (8-Nov-1989) · Mistress Quickly
A Handful of Dust (24-Jun-1988) · Mrs. Beaver
84 Charing Cross Road (13-Feb-1987)
A Room with a View (Dec-1985) · Eleanor Lavish, a novelist
Wetherby (Feb-1985)
The Angelic Conversation (1985) · Narrator
Dead Cert (May-1974) · Laura Davidson
Luther (21-Jan-1974) · Luther's Wife
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sep-1968)
He Who Rides a Tiger (Oct-1965)
A Study in Terror (Oct-1965)
Four in the Morning (May-1965)
The Third Secret (Feb-1964)
Author of books:
And Furthermore (2010)
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