Cast & creator
Judi Dench
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Graham Norton Show
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is a retired 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.
Also known as: Dame Judi Dench, Judy Dench, Judith Olivia Dench, Джудит Оливия Денч
139
film credits
55
television credits
192
1949–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (194)
Showing 194 of 194 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The One Show
Self
2006
The South Bank Show
1978
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter / Winner
1956
BBC Play of the Month
Elizabeth Moris
1965
ITV Playhouse
Helen Payle
1967ITV Playhouse
Z
1967
Playhouse
Sister Scarli
1974
Omnibus
Self - Reading Poetry
1967
Countryfile
Self
1988
Theatre 625
Valentine Wannop
1964Theatre 625
Terry Stevens
1964
Parkinson
Self
1998
An Audience with...
Self
1978Pebble Mill
Self
1991
The Oscars
Self
1953
Pride & Prejudice
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2005
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Society Lady
2011
Performance
Christine Foskett
1991
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004Parkinson
Self - Guest / Performer
2004Parkinson
Self - Guest (archive footage)
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004
Going Live!
Self
1987
Casino Royale
M
2006
Screen One
Anne
1989
The BAFTA Awards
Self
1949
BBC2 Play of the Week
Imogen Langrishe
1977BBC2 Play of the Week
Helen Wiles
1977
Skyfall
M
2012
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Avocet
2016
Spectre
M (uncredited)
2015
Quantum of Solace
M
2008
As Time Goes By
Jean Pargetter
1992
HBO First Look
Self
1992
The Hollow Crown
Cecily
2012
The World Is Not Enough
M
1999
Murder on the Orient Express
Princess Dragomiroff
2017
Die Another Day
M
2002
Home on the Range
Mrs. Caloway (voice)
2004
Remembers…
Self
2022
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Fridge (voice)
2026
An Age of Kings
Katherine of Valois
1960
Staged
Judi
2020
Tomorrow Never Dies
M
1997
GoldenEye
M
1995
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013Festival
Angela Thwaites
1963
Detective
Charlotte Revel
1964
Cranford
Miss Matilda Jenkyns
2007
Artemis Fowl
Commander Root
2020
Theatre Night
1985Theatre Night
Helene Alving
1985
Tulip Fever
The Abbess of St. Ursula
2017
Shakespeare in Love
Queen Elizabeth
1998
A Room with a View
Eleanor Lavish
1986
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Fairfax
2011
Ooh La La!
Amélie
1968
Chocolat
Armande Voizin
2000
The Chronicles of Riddick
Aereon
2004
Notes on a Scandal
Barbara Covett
2006
Vicious
Judi Dench (voice, uncredited)
2013
My Week with Marilyn
Dame Sybil Thorndike
2011
Middlemarch
1994
Spirited
Dame Judi Dench
2022
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Evelyn Greenslade
2012
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Victoria & Abdul
Queen Victoria
2017
Blithe Spirit
Madame Arcati
2020
Cats
Old Deuteronomy
2019
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Evelyn Greenslade
2015
Angelina Ballerina
Miss Lilly (voice)
2001
A Fine Romance
Laura Dalton
1981
Red Joan
Joan Elizabeth Stanley
2018Confession
Woman
1970
Belfast
Granny
2021
Nine
Lilli
2009
Philomena
Philomena
2013
J. Edgar
Anna Marie Hoover
2011
Iris
Iris Murdoch
2001
Louis Theroux Interviews
Self
2022
84 Charing Cross Road
Nora Doel
1987
Hamlet
Hecuba
1996
Love in a Cold Climate
Aunt Sadie
1980
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self
2023
Six Minutes to Midnight
Miss Rocholl
2020
The Shipping News
Agnis Hamm
2001
Henry V
Mistress Quickly
1989
Nothing Like a Dame
Self
2018
Ladies in Lavender
Ursula
2004
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Mrs. Silver
2015
Behaving Badly
Bridget Mayor
1989
Tea with Mussolini
Arabella
1999
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell
2002
All Is True
Anne Shakespeare
2018Hububb
Writer
1997
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Self
2026
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Laura Henderson
2005
My Homeland
Reader
1976
Talking to a Stranger
Terry Stevens - Daughter
1966
A Study in Terror
Sally
1965
Everything or Nothing
Self
2012
A Handful of Dust
Mrs. Beaver
1988
Mrs Brown
Queen Victoria
1997
Muse of Fire
Self
2013
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
2016
Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
2013
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Dorrie Edgehill
1985
Doogal
Narrator (voice)
2006
Off the Rails
Diana
2021
HiT Favourites: Happy Children's Favourites
Miss Lilly (voice)
2006
Absolute Hell
Christine Foskett
1991Village Wooing
Z
1979
Jack & Sarah
Margaret
1995
The Big Night In
Self
2020
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Self
2002
Bond Girls Are Forever
Herself
2002
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
1968
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Cleopatra/Desiree Armfeldt
2013
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Elizabeth
2000
Joke
2026
Run For Your Wife
Bag Lady
2012
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
2022
The Browning Version
Millie Crocker-Harris
1985GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Self
1995
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Self
1995
The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Self
2022
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
Self
2002
Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
Miss Lilly (voice)
2003
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Desiree Armfeldt (segment "Send In The Clowns")
1998
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Self
2012
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2023
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Self (archive footage)
2022
Allelujah
Mary
2023
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Self - Narrator (voice)
2000
The Third Secret
Miss Ada Humphries
1964
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
2015
Going Gently
Sister Scarli
1981
Born to be The King
Narrator
2022
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Paulina
2015
Four in the Morning
Wife ("Judi")
1965
Best Ever Bond
Self
2002
The Vote
Christine Metcalfe
2015
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
Narrator
1992
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
1979
Tea with Judi Dench featuring Kenneth Branagh
Self
2025
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Anne
1990Letters to My Younger Future Self
2026
Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
Self
2019
Bugs!
Narrator (voice)
2003Shaken and Stirred on Ice
Self
2002
He Who Rides a Tiger
Joanne
1965
Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
Self
2025
Highly Classified: The World of 007
Self
1998
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Barbara Dean
1983
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
Self
2016
Rage
Mona Carvell
2009
The Cherry Orchard
Mme. Ranevsky
1981
Stars in Shorts
Mary
2012
Look Back in Anger
Director
1989
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Miss Lilly (voice)
2004
Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
Self
2004
On Giant's Shoulders
Hazel Wiles
1979
Into the Woods
The Giant (voice)
2011
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
M (voice)
2011Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006The Life of Shakespeare
self
2002
Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck
Miss Lilly (voice)
2006
Friend Request Pending
Mary
2011
The Comedy of Errors
Adriana
1978
Wetherby
Marcia Pilborough
1985
Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance
Miss Lilly (voice)
2005
Ghosts
Helene Alving
1987
The Cherry Orchard
Anya
1962
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
Self - Preshow Announcement (voice)
2021
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Performer: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
2002
Langrishe, Go Down
Imogen Langrishe
1978
Luther
Katharina
1974
Make and Break
Mrs. Rogers
1987
A Dairy Tale
Mrs. Calloway (voice)
2004
Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
Miss Lilly (voice)
2005
Tea with Judi Dench featuring Ian McKellen
Self
2026
The Angelic Conversation
(voice)
1987
Dead Cert
Laura Davidson
1974
Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
Self
2017
I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
Self
2022
Palo Santo
Mother of Palo Santo
2018
Quintessentially British
Self
2022Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
Self
2002We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
Narrator
2005
Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
Self
2024