Judi Dench

ActorWriterDirector Dec 9 (age 91) York, North Yorkshire, England 1949–2025 (76 year career)

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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 theatr…

Known For

Film

Pride & Prejudice

Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Film

Casino Royale

Film

Skyfall

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Society Lady

Film

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Avocet

Film

Murder on the Orient Express

Princess Dragomiroff

Film

Spectre

M (uncredited)

Film

GoldenEye

Filmography

Acting (181)

Movies (135)

Tea with Judi Dench

2025

as Self

Morecambe & Wise: The Unseen Tapes

2025

as Self

Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me

2025

as Self

Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple

2024

as Self

The Coronation Concert

2023

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Allelujah

2023

as Mary

5.2

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

2023

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

7.2

Spirited

2022

as Dame Judi Dench

6.9

I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth

2022

as Self

Quintessentially British

as Self

Born to be The King

as Narrator

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

2022

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

as Self

Belfast

as Granny

Off the Rails

as Diana

The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre

2021

as Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)

Artemis Fowl

as Commander Root

Blithe Spirit

as Madame Arcati

Six Minutes to Midnight

as Miss Rocholl

Cats

as Old Deuteronomy

Red Joan

as Joan Elizabeth Stanley

All Is True

as Anne Shakespeare

Nothing Like a Dame

as Self

Palo Santo

as Mother of Palo Santo

7.3

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

as Princess Dragomiroff

6.7

Tulip Fever

2017

as The Abbess of St. Ursula

6.5

Victoria & Abdul

2017

as Queen Victoria

6.9

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees

2017

as Self

6.7

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016

as Miss Avocet

6.8

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

as Self - Performer

7.2

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

as Self

Spectre

as M (uncredited)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015

as Evelyn Greenslade

6.4

The Vote

2015

as Christine Metcalfe

8.4

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

2015

as Mrs. Silver

6.7

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

2015

as Paulina

7.7

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

as Self (archive material)

5.0

Six by Sondheim

2013

as Self (archive footage)

Philomena

as Philomena

Muse of Fire

as Self

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013

as Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt

6.2

Skyfall

2012

as M

7.3

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2012

as Evelyn Greenslade

7.0

Everything or Nothing

as Self

Stars in Shorts

as Mary

Run For Your Wife

as Bag Lady

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

2012

as Self

6.2

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

as Society Lady

J. Edgar

as Anna Marie Hoover

Jane Eyre

as Mrs. Fairfax

My Week with Marilyn

as Dame Sybil Thorndike

6.7

Friend Request Pending

as Mary

Into the Woods

as The Giant (voice)

James Bond Supports International Women's Day

as M (voice)

Nine

as Lilli

Rage

as Mona Carvell

Quantum of Solace

as M

Casino Royale

as M

Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck

2006

as Miss Lilly (voice)

Notes on a Scandal

as Barbara Covett

Doogal

as Narrator (voice)

Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles

2006

6.0

Pride & Prejudice

2005

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

8.0

We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom

2005

as Narrator

8.0

Mrs. Henderson Presents

2005

as Mrs. Laura Henderson

6.6

Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance

2005

as Miss Lilly (voice)

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as Jean Pargetter (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance

2005

as Miss Lilly (voice)

Home on the Range

2004

as Mrs. Caloway (voice)

6.1

Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love

2004

as Self

The Chronicles of Riddick

as Aereon

Ladies in Lavender

as Ursula

A Dairy Tale

as Mrs. Calloway (voice)

5.1

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On

2004

as Miss Lilly (voice)

7.0

Bugs!

2003

as Narrator (voice)

6.2

Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!

2003

as Miss Lilly (voice)

5.6

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

as Self

Die Another Day

as M

Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute

2002

as Self

The Importance of Being Earnest

as Lady Bracknell

Best Ever Bond

as Self

The Life of Shakespeare

2002

as self

Shaken and Stirred on Ice

2002

as Self

5.5

Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre

2002

as Self

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

2002

as Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"

Iris

as Iris Murdoch

The Shipping News

as Agnis Hamm

Chocolat

as Armande Voizin

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000

as Elizabeth

6.7

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

2000

as Narrator (voice)

7.4

The World Is Not Enough

as M

Tea with Mussolini

as Arabella

Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years

Shakespeare in Love

as Queen Elizabeth

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

1998

as Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")

2.0

Highly Classified: The World of 007

Tomorrow Never Dies

as M

Mrs Brown

as Queen Victoria

Hamlet

as Hecuba

GoldenEye

as M

Jack & Sarah

as Margaret

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

1995

as Self

6.0

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

1995

as Self

6.0

J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973

1992

as Narrator

Absolute Hell

1991

as Christine Foskett

5.7

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

as Anne

Henry V

as Mistress Quickly

A Handful of Dust

as Mrs. Beaver

An Audience With Victoria Wood

1988

as Self

5.2

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1988

as Self (uncredited)

Make and Break

1987

as Mrs. Rogers

84 Charing Cross Road

1987

as Nora Doel

7.2

Ghosts

1987

as Helene Alving

The Angelic Conversation

as (voice)

A Room with a View

as Eleanor Lavish

Wetherby

as Marcia Pilborough

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

1985

as Dorrie Edgehill

7.0

The Browning Version

1985

as Millie Crocker-Harris

6.2

Saigon: Year of the Cat

as Barbara Dean

Going Gently

as Sister Scarli

The Cherry Orchard

as Mme. Ranevsky

Macbeth

1979

as Lady Macbeth

7.3

On Giant's Shoulders

1979

as Hazel Wiles

Village Wooing

1979

as Z

Langrishe, Go Down

as Imogen Langrishe

The Comedy of Errors

as Adriana

My Homeland

as Reader

Luther

as Katharina

Dead Cert

as Laura Davidson

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Titania

Four in the Morning

as Wife ("Judi")

A Study in Terror

as Sally

He Who Rides a Tiger

as Joanne

The Third Secret

1964

as Miss Ada Humphries

6.1

The Cherry Orchard

1962

as Anya

8.0

Television (46)

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

2023

as Self

5.3

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Louis Theroux Interviews

as Self

Staged

as Judi

Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure

2019

as Herself

6.5

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

Portrait Artist of the Year

2013

as Themselves

6.7

Vicious

2013

as Judi Dench (voice, uncredited)

7.5

Talking Pictures

2013

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

The Hollow Crown

2012

as Cecily

7.4

Live from Studio Five

2009

as Self

3.7

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self

7.2

Cranford

2007

as Miss Matilda Jenkyns

8.2

Cranford

2007

as Self/Miss Matty Jenkins

8.2

The One Show

2006

as Self

4.4

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

as Self

6.7

Top Gear

2002

as M (archive footage)

7.6

Angelina Ballerina

2001

as Miss Lilly (voice)

7.3

Parkinson

1998

as Self

Middlemarch

HBO First Look

as Self

As Time Goes By

as Jean Pargetter

Performance

as Christine Foskett

Pebble Mill

as Self

Behaving Badly

as Bridget Mayor

Countryfile

as Self

Going Live!

as Self

Theatre Night

Playing Shakespeare

A Fine Romance

as Laura Dalton

Love in a Cold Climate

as Aunt Sadie

An Audience with...

as Self

BBC2 Play of the Week

as Imogen Langrishe

Playhouse

as Sister Scarli

Ooh La La!

as Amélie

Omnibus

1967

as Self - Reading Poetry

7.2

Talking to a Stranger

1966

as Terry Stevens - Daughter

8.5

BBC Play of the Month

as Elizabeth Moris

Theatre 625

as Valentine Wannop

Detective

as Charlotte Revel

Festival

1963

as Angela Thwaites

8.0

An Age of Kings

1960

as Katherine of Valois

4.7

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter/Winner

The Oscars

as Self

The BAFTA Awards

as Self

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

Look Back in Anger

1989

Director

9.0

Television (1)

Hububb

1997

Writer