
Judi Dench
Known for: Acting
Born: December 9, 1934
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

Notes on a Scandal
2006

Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005

A Dairy Tale
2004

Ladies in Lavender
2004

Macbeth
1979
Judi Dench Talks to Richard Eyre
2002

Bugs!
2003

Mrs Brown
1997
We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom
2005

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2000

The Cherry Orchard
1981

Langrishe, Go Down
1978

Ghosts
1987

Philomena
2013

Absolute Hell
1991

I Remember It Well: Dame Judi Dench in Conversation with Gyles Bandreth
2022

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000

Friend Request Pending
2011

J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
1992

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
Village Wooing
1979

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015

Going Gently
1981

Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990

Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015

Victoria & Abdul
2017

Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple
2024

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985

Red Joan
2018

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees
2017

On Giant's Shoulders
1979

The Angelic Conversation
1987

Tea with Judi Dench
2025

Chocolat
2000

Tea with Mussolini
1999

Iris
2001

Home on the Range
2004

Skyfall
2012

Dead Cert
1974

Four in the Morning
1965

Muse of Fire
2013

Angelina Ballerina: All Dancers on Deck
2006

Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance
2005

Make and Break
1987

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015

Born to be The King
2022

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016

My Homeland
1976

The Browning Version
1985

James Bond Supports International Women's Day
2011

Nothing Like a Dame
2018

Cats
2019

All Is True
2018

He Who Rides a Tiger
1965

The Comedy of Errors
1978
The Life of Shakespeare
2002

Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
2003

Angelina Ballerina: The Big Performance
2005

Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
2025

Jack & Sarah
1995

84 Charing Cross Road
1987

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002

Wetherby
1985

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016

Luther
1974

Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
2002

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004

Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
2004

The Chronicles of Riddick
2004

Quantum of Solace
2008

The Shipping News
2001

The Importance of Being Earnest
2002

Casino Royale
2006

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012

The Cherry Orchard
1962

Tulip Fever
2017

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016

The Vote
2015

Palo Santo
2018

Blithe Spirit
2020
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006

Nine
2009

Shakespeare in Love
1998

A Handful of Dust
1988

Belfast
2021

Morecambe & Wise: The Unseen Tapes
2025

GoldenEye
1995

Allelujah
2023

The World Is Not Enough
1999

Die Another Day
2002

J. Edgar
2011

Everything or Nothing
2012

Stars in Shorts
2012

Off the Rails
2021
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995

Henry V
1989

Doogal
2006

Jane Eyre
2011

Murder on the Orient Express
2017

Six Minutes to Midnight
2020

A Study in Terror
1965

Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968

Quintessentially British
2022

Artemis Fowl
2020

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997

Rage
2009

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013

Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995

Pride & Prejudice
2005

A Room with a View
1986

Bond Girls Are Forever
2002

Run For Your Wife
2012

Joke
2026

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988

The Third Secret
1964

My Week with Marilyn
2011

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
2002
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
2002

Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023

The Magic Faraway Tree
2026

An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988

Six by Sondheim
2013

Into the Woods
2011

The Coronation Concert
2023

Hamlet
1996
Best Ever Bond
2002

The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre
2021
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005

Spirited
2022

Spectre
2015

The Big Night In
2020

As Time Goes By
1992

The One Show
2006

Staged
2020

A Fine Romance
1981

Talking to a Stranger
1966

Middlemarch
1994

Cranford
2007

Behaving Badly
1989
Pebble Mill
1991

The Oscars
1953

Love in a Cold Climate
1980

Angelina Ballerina
2001

Playhouse
1974

Live from Studio Five
2009

Theatre Night
1985

Talking Pictures
2013

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004

Ooh La La!
1968

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

An Audience with...
1978

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Playing Shakespeare
1984

Going Live!
1987

The Hollow Crown
2012

Louis Theroux Interviews
2022

Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
2019

Performance
1991

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023

The BAFTA Awards
1949

Parkinson
1998

Countryfile
1988

Omnibus
1967

An Age of Kings
1960

BBC Play of the Month
1965

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977

Detective
1964
Festival
1963

HBO First Look
1992

Theatre 625
1964

Vicious
2013

Remembers…
2022

ITV Playhouse
1967

Tony Awards
1956

Screen One
1989
Confession
1970