Judi Dench

Actor

Birthdate: Dec 9, 1934

Birthplace: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and at Old Vic Theatre. She is a ten-time BAFTA winner including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for A Fine Romance (1981) in which she appeared with her husband, Michael Williams, and Best Supporting Actress in A Handful of Dust (1988) and A Room with a View (1985). She received an ACE award for her performance in the television series Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985). She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970, a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1988 and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2005.

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2021 |
Belfast
Belfast
2021
PG-13
1h 38m
Drama
7.2
A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
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2021 |
Six Minutes to Midnight
Six Minutes to Midnight
2021
PG-13
1h 39m
Drama, Thriller
5.9
UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.
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2021 |
Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
2021
PG-13
1h 39m
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
5.4
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
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2019 |
Cats
Cats
2019
PG
1h 50m
Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
2.8
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
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2019 |
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale
2019
3h
Drama
7.8
A jealous King jeopardizes his family, friendships, and succession.
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2019 |
All Is True
All Is True
2019
PG-13
1h 41m
Biography, Drama, History
6.3
A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.
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2019 |
Red Joan
Red Joan
2019
R
1h 41m
Biography, Drama, History, Romance
6.4
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.
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2018 |
Tea With the Dames
Tea With the Dames
2018
Unrated
1h 24m
Documentary
7.4
Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.
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2017 |
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
PG-13
1h 54m
Crime, Drama, Mystery
6.5
When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
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2017 |
Victoria & Abdul
Victoria & Abdul
2017
PG-13
1h 51m
Biography, Comedy, Drama
6.8
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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2017 |
Tulip Fever
Tulip Fever
2017
R
1h 45m
Drama, History, Romance
6.2
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
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2016 |
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
2016
PG-13
2h 7m
Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
6.7
When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special ...
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2015 |
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
PG
2h 2m
Comedy, Drama, Romance
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy, posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals, Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
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2012 |
Skyfall
Skyfall
2012
PG-13
2h 23m
Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
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2012 |
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012
PG-13
2h 4m
Comedy, Drama, Romance
7.2
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
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2006 |
Casino Royale
Casino Royale
2006
PG-13
2h 24m
Action, Adventure, Thriller
8
After earning a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, in Montenegro.
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2000 |
Chocolat
Chocolat
2000
PG-13
2h 1m
Drama, Romance
7.2
Single mother Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town in the winter of 1959, and open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
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