Cast
Judi Dench
Acting
Cast
Judi Dench
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-12-09
From
York, North Yorkshire, England
Also known as Dame Judi Dench, Judy Dench, Judith Olivia 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 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 were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she played in each James Bond film until Skyfall (2012). 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. She was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of actress Finty Williams.
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MOVIE2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Society Lady
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8.1
MOVIE2005
Pride & Prejudice
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
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7.3
MOVIE2012
Skyfall
as M
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7.6
MOVIE2006
Casino Royale
as M
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6.8
MOVIE2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
as Miss Avocet
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MOVIE2015
Spectre
as M (uncredited)
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6.7
MOVIE2017
Murder on the Orient Express
as Princess Dragomiroff
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6.3
MOVIE2008
Quantum of Solace
as M
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MOVIE1995
GoldenEye
as M
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MOVIE2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
as The Fridge (voice)
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MOVIE1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
as M
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MOVIE2002
Die Another Day
as M
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MOVIE1999
The World Is Not Enough
as M
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MOVIE2004
Home on the Range
as Mrs. Caloway (voice)
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6.5
MOVIE2017
Tulip Fever
as The Abbess of St. Ursula
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MOVIE2022
Spirited
as Dame Judi Dench
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MOVIE1998
Shakespeare in Love
as Queen Elizabeth
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MOVIE2000
Chocolat
as Armande Voizin
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MOVIE2011
My Week with Marilyn
as Dame Sybil Thorndike
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MOVIE2006
Notes on a Scandal
as Barbara Covett
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MOVIE2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
as Aereon
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MOVIE2020
Artemis Fowl
as Commander Root
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MOVIE2018
Red Joan
as Joan Elizabeth Stanley
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MOVIE2011
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Fairfax
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Evelyn Greenslade
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MOVIE1986
A Room with a View
as Eleanor Lavish
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MOVIE2011
J. Edgar
as Anna Marie Hoover
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MOVIE2017
Victoria & Abdul
as Queen Victoria
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MOVIE2019
Cats
as Old Deuteronomy
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MOVIE2001
Iris
as Iris Murdoch
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MOVIE2026
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
as Self
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MOVIE2021
Belfast
as Granny
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MOVIE2012
Everything or Nothing
as Self
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MOVIE1996
Hamlet
as Hecuba
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MOVIE1987
84 Charing Cross Road
as Nora Doel
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MOVIE2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Evelyn Greenslade
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MOVIE2004
Ladies in Lavender
as Ursula
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MOVIE2013
Philomena
as Philomena
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MOVIE2026
Joke
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6.2
MOVIE2020
Six Minutes to Midnight
as Miss Rocholl
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MOVIE2002
The Importance of Being Earnest
as Lady Bracknell
MOVIE1979
Village Wooing
as Z
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MOVIE1991
Absolute Hell
as Christine Foskett
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MOVIE2013
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage)
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5.5
MOVIE2009
Nine
as Lilli
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MOVIE1985
The Browning Version
as Millie Crocker-Harris
MOVIE1976
My Homeland
as Reader
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MOVIE1981
Going Gently
as Sister Scarli
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MOVIE2018
All Is True
as Anne Shakespeare
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MOVIE2002
Bond Girls Are Forever
as Herself
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MOVIE2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
as Mrs. Laura Henderson
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MOVIE2015
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
as Mrs. Silver
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MOVIE1981
The Cherry Orchard
as Mme. Ranevsky
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MOVIE1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
as Dorrie Edgehill
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MOVIE2020
The Big Night In
as Self
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MOVIE1989
Henry V
as Mistress Quickly
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MOVIE2001
The Shipping News
as Agnis Hamm
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MOVIE1995
Jack & Sarah
as Margaret
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MOVIE2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
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MOVIE2020
Blithe Spirit
as Madame Arcati
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6.4
MOVIE1999
Tea with Mussolini
as Arabella
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MOVIE2012
Stars in Shorts
as Mary
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MOVIE1964
The Third Secret
as Miss Ada Humphries
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7.7
MOVIE2011
Friend Request Pending
as Mary
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6.8
MOVIE1997
Mrs Brown
as Queen Victoria
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6.8
MOVIE2018
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self
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MOVIE1995
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
as Self
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MOVIE1988
A Handful of Dust
as Mrs. Beaver
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MOVIE2006
Doogal
as Narrator (voice)
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MOVIE2023
Allelujah
as Mary
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MOVIE1983
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Barbara Dean
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MOVIE1965
A Study in Terror
as Sally
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MOVIE2004
A Dairy Tale
as Mrs. Calloway (voice)
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MOVIE1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
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MOVIE1978
The Comedy of Errors
as Adriana
MOVIE2002
The Life of Shakespeare
as self
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MOVIE2012
Run For Your Wife
as Bag Lady
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MOVIE2002
Best Ever Bond
as Self
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MOVIE1995
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
as Self
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MOVIE1979
On Giant's Shoulders
as Hazel Wiles
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MOVIE2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
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MOVIE2012
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
as Self
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5.5
MOVIE2002
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
as Self
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7.4
MOVIE2000
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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6.0
MOVIE2021
Off the Rails
as Diana
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7.2
MOVIE2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
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8.0
MOVIE1962
The Cherry Orchard
as Anya
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MOVIE1998
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")
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7.5
MOVIE1979
Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth
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MOVIE2002
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
as Self
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MOVIE1974
Luther
as Katharina
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MOVIE1978
Langrishe, Go Down
as Imogen Langrishe
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MOVIE1998
Highly Classified: The World of 007
as Self
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MOVIE2003
Bugs!
as Narrator (voice)
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MOVIE1985
Wetherby
as Marcia Pilborough
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MOVIE2011
Into the Woods
as The Giant (voice)
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MOVIE1990
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
as Anne
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MOVIE2003
Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
as Miss Lilly (voice)
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MOVIE2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
as Self (archive footage)
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MOVIE1965
Four in the Morning
as Wife ("Judi")
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5.2
MOVIE1987
The Angelic Conversation
as (voice)
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6.9
MOVIE2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Elizabeth
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7.0
MOVIE1965
He Who Rides a Tiger
as Joanne
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MOVIE2015
The Vote
as Christine Metcalfe
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MOVIE2009
Rage
as Mona Carvell
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MOVIE1987
Ghosts
as Helene Alving
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MOVIE2002
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
as Self
MOVIE2026
Letters to My Younger Future Self
MOVIE1987
Make and Break
as Mrs. Rogers
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MOVIE1974
Dead Cert
as Laura Davidson
MOVIE2005
Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance
as Miss Lilly (voice)
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6.0
MOVIE2006
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
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MOVIE2016
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
as Self
MOVIE2025
Tea with Judi Dench
as Self
MOVIE2005
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
as Miss Lilly (voice)
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3.8
MOVIE2022
Quintessentially British
as Self
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5.0
MOVIE2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
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7.0
MOVIE2025
Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
as Self
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7.7
MOVIE2015
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Paulina
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7.0
MOVIE2002
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
as Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
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7.0
MOVIE2022
Born to be The King
as Narrator
MOVIE2022
I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
as Self
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4.4
MOVIE2011
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
as M (voice)
MOVIE2024
Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
as Self
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8.0
MOVIE2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE2004
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
as Miss Lilly (voice)
MOVIE2004
Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
as Self
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6.7
MOVIE2017
Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
as Self
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7.2
MOVIE2023
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
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8.0
MOVIE1992
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
as Narrator
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MOVIE2005
We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
as Narrator
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MOVIE2006
Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck
as Miss Lilly (voice)
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10.0
MOVIE2021
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
as Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)
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7.3
MOVIE2018
Palo Santo
as Mother of Palo Santo
MOVIE2002
Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
as Self