Judi Dench
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 & 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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Known For
Notes on a Scandal
(2006)
Shakespeare in Love
(1998)
Judi Dench Movies
actor
Previous (64)
- 2022 | Allelujah
- 2022 | Experience: The Platinum Jubilee
- 2022 | Quintessentially British
- 2021 |
- 2021 |
Six Minutes to Midnight
asMiss Rocholl
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.
- 2021 |
Blithe Spirit
asMadame Cecily Arcati
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.
- 2019 | Humans of Our World: The Journey
- 2019 |
- 2019 |
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale
A jealous King jeopardizes his family, friendships, and succession.
- 2019 |
- 2019 |
- 2018 |
Tea With the Dames
asSelf
Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.
- 2017 | The Actor's Apprenticeship
- 2017 |
Murder on the Orient Express
asPrincess Dragomiroff
When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
- 2017 |
Victoria & Abdul
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
- 2017 |
Tulip Fever
asAbbess
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
- 2016 |
- 2016 |
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
When Jacob 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 powers.
- 2015 |
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
asEvelyn Greenslade
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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.
- 2013 | Muse of Fire
- 2013 | Philomena
- 2012 |
- 2012 |
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
asEvelyn Greenslade
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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.
- 2011 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
asSociety Lady
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
- 2009 | Rage
- 2009 | Nine
- 2008 | Quantum of Solace
- 2008 |
Quantum of Solace
asM
James Bond tries to stop an organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.
- 2006 | Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail
- 2006 | Notes on a Scandal
- 2006 |
Casino Royale
asM
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.
- 2006 | Doogal
- 2005 | Mrs. Henderson Presents
- 2004 | Ladies in Lavender
- 2004 | Peace One Day
- 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick
- 2004 | Home on the Range
- 2002 | Die Another Day
- 2002 |
Die Another Day
asM
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
- 2002 | The Importance of Being Earnest
- 2001 | The Shipping News
- 2001 | Iris
- 2000 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
- 2000 |
- 1999 | The World Is Not Enough
- 1999 |
The World Is Not Enough
asM
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
- 1999 | Tea with Mussolini
- 1998 |
Shakespeare in Love
asQueen Elizabeth
History's greatest playwright is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
- 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies
- 1997 |
Tomorrow Never Dies
asM
James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce a war between China and the United Kingdom.
- 1997 | Mrs. Brown
- 1995 | Jack & Sarah
- 1995 | GoldenEye
- 1995 |
- 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road
- 1986 |
A Room with a View
asEleanor Lavish, a novelist
Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
- 1985 | A Room with a View
- 1985 | The Angelic Conversation
- 1985 | Wetherby
- 1978 | Langrishe, Go Down
- 1974 | Dead Cert
- 1965 | A Study in Terror
- 1965 | Four in the Morning
- 1965 | He Who Rides a Tiger
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