Judi Dench

Highest Rated: 100% Henry V (1989)

Lowest Rated: 8% Doogal (2006)

Birthday: Dec 9, 1934

Birthplace: North Yorkshire, England

One of Britain's most respected and popular actresses, Judi Dench can claim a decades-old career encompassing the stage, screen, and television. A five-time winner of the British Academy Award, she was granted an Order of the British Empire in 1970 and made a Dame of the British Empire in 1988.Born in York, England, on December 9, 1934, Dench made her stage debut as a snail in a junior school production. After attending art school, she studied acting at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. In 1957, she made her professional stage debut as Ophelia in the Old Vic's Liverpool production of Hamlet. A prolific stage career followed, with seasons spent performing with the likes of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Dench broke into film in 1964 with a supporting role in The Third Secret. The following year, she won her first BAFTA, a Most Promising Newcomer honor for her work in Four in the Morning. Although she continued to work in film, Dench earned most of her recognition and acclaim for her stage work. Occasionally, she brought her stage roles to the screen in such film adaptations as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) and Macbeth (1978), in which she was Lady Macbeth to Ian McKellen's tormented king. It was not until the mid-'80s that Dench began to make her name known to an international film audience. In 1986, she had a memorable turn as a meddlesome romance author in A Room with a View, earning a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for her tart portrayal. Two years later, she won the same award for her work in another period drama, A Handful of Dust.After her supporting role as Mistress Quickly in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed 1989 adaptation of Henry V, Dench exchanged the past for the present with her thoroughly modern role as M in GoldenEye (1995), the first of the Pierce Brosnan series of James Bond films. She portrayed the character for the subsequent Brosnan 007 films, lending flinty elegance to what had traditionally been a male role. The part of M had the advantage of introducing Dench to an audience unfamiliar with her work, and in 1997 she earned further international recognition, as well as an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe award, for her portrayal of Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown.While her screen career had taken on an increasingly high-profile nature, Dench continued to act on both television and the stage. In the former medium, she endeared herself to viewers with her work in such series as A Fine Romance (in which she starred opposite real-life husband Michael Williams) and As Time Goes By. On the stage, Dench made history in 1996, becoming the first performer to win two Olivier Awards for two different roles in the same year. In 1998, Dench won an Oscar, garnering Best Supporting Actress honors for her eight-minute appearance as Queen Elizabeth in the acclaimed Shakespeare in Love. Her win resulted in the kind of media adulation usually afforded to actresses one-third her age. Dench continued to reap both acclaim and new fans with her work in Tea with Mussolini and another Bond film, The World is Not Enough. For her role as a talented British writer struggling with Alzheimer's disease in Iris (2001), Dench earned her third Oscar nomination. Sadly, that same year Dench's husband died of lung cancer at the age of 66.The prophetic artist continued to act in several films a year, wowing audiences with contemporary dramas like 2001's The Shipping News and period pieces like 2002's Oscar Wilde comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. She reprised the role of M again that same year for Brosnan's last Bond film Die Another Day, before appearing in projects in 2004 and 2005 such as The Chronicles of Riddick, Pride & Prejudice, and an Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated performance as a wealthy widow who shocks 1930s audiences by backing a burlesque show in Mrs. Henderson Presents. In 2006, she followed the Bond franchise into a new era, maintaining her hold on the role of M as Brosnan retired from pl

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Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	Artemis Fowl	Actor	—	2019
75%	All Is True	Anne Hathaway	—	2019
33%	Red Joan	Joan Stanley	—	2019
59%	Murder On The Orient Express	Princess Dragomiroff	$101.6M	2017
65%	Victoria & Abdul	Queen Victoria	$21.7M	2017
10%	Tulip Fever	The Abbess of St. Ursula	$2.4M	2017
65%	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Miss Avocet	$87.3M	2016
No Score Yet	Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's The Winter's Tale	Actor	$0.3M	2015
64%	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Evelyn Greenslade	$39M	2015
90%	Philomena	Philomena Lee	—	2013
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina: Mousical Medleys	Actor	—	2013
92%	Skyfall	M	$299.4M	2012
79%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Evelyn Greenslade	$46.4M	2012
No Score Yet	The Joy Of Six	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	National Theater Live: The Magistrate	Actor	—	2012
83%	My Week with Marilyn	Dame Sybil Thorndike	$12.7M	2011
42%	J. Edgar	Annie Hoover	$37.4M	2011
33%	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Society Lady	$241.1M	2011
84%	Jane Eyre	Mrs. Fairfax	—	2011
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina: Pop Star Girls	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Corrections	Actor	—	2011
40%	Nine	Lilli	$19.7M	2009
29%	Rage	Mona Carvell	—	2009
No Score Yet	Return to Cranford	Actor	—	2009
65%	Quantum of Solace	M	$168.5M	2008
87%	Notes on a Scandal	Barbara Covett	$17.5M	2006
94%	Casino Royale	M	$167.1M	2006
8%	Doogal	Narrator	$7.4M	2006
68%	Mrs. Henderson Presents	Laura Henderson	$11M	2006
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - All Dancers on Deck	Actor	—	2006
86%	Pride and Prejudice	Lady Catherine de Bourg	$38.3M	2005
63%	Ladies in Lavender	Ursula	$6.5M	2005
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - The Big Performance	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina: Princess Dance	Actor	—	2005
29%	The Chronicles of Riddick	Aereon	$56.9M	2004
53%	Home on the Range	Mrs. Caloway	$49.9M	2004
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - The Magic of Dance	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - Dance Of Friendship	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - Meet Angelina Ballerina	Actor	—	2004
82%	Bugs!	Narrator	—	2003
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - The Lucky Penny	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening	Actor	—	2002
57%	Die Another Day	M	$160.3M	2002
No Score Yet	Bond Girls Are Forever	Actor	—	2002
57%	The Importance of Being Earnest	Lady Bracknell	—	2002
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - In the Wings	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - Rose Fairy Princess	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Angelina Ballerina - Friends Forever	Actor	—	2002
55%	The Shipping News	Agnis Hamm	$11.5M	2001
79%	Iris	Iris Murdoch	$5.4M	2001
62%	Chocolat	Armande Voizin	—	2000
91%	Into The Arms Of Strangers: Stories Of The Kindertransport	Narrator	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Actor Director	—	2000
52%	The World Is Not Enough	M	—	1999
66%	Tea with Mussolini	Arabella	—	1999
92%	Shakespeare in Love	Queen Elizabeth	—	1998
58%	Tomorrow Never Dies	M	—	1997
No Score Yet	Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown	Actor	—	1997
92%	Mrs. Brown	Queen Victoria	—	1997
95%	Hamlet	Hecuba	—	1996
74%	Jack & Sarah	Margaret	—	1996
78%	GoldenEye	M	—	1995
100%	Henry V	Mistress Quickly	—	1989
No Score Yet	Behaving Badly	Bridget	—	1989
No Score Yet	Look Back in Anger	Director	—	1989
No Score Yet	A Handful of Dust	Mrs. Beaver	—	1988
No Score Yet	Ghosts	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Angelic Conversation	Actor	—	1987
87%	84 Charing Cross Road	Nora Doel	—	1987
No Score Yet	Ghosts	Actor	—	1987
100%	A Room With a View	Miss Lavish	—	1985
80%	Wetherby	Marcia Pilborough	—	1985
No Score Yet	Saigon: Year of the Cat	Barbara	—	1983
No Score Yet	A Performance of Macbeth	Lady Macbeth	—	1978
No Score Yet	Luther	Katherine	—	1974
No Score Yet	Dead Cert	Laura Davidson	—	1974
No Score Yet	He Who Rides A Tiger	Actor	—	1968
No Score Yet	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Titania	—	1968
No Score Yet	A Study in Terror	Sally	—	1965
No Score Yet	Four in the Morning	Wife	—	1965
No Score Yet	The Third Secret	Miss Humphries	—	1964
No Score Yet	Cherry Orchard	Actor	—	1962
No Score Yet	Shakespeare's An Age of Kings	Actor	—	1960

TV

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2018 2015
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2018 2017 2015 2014 2013
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Today 2017	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013-2017	Guest	2017 2015
No Score Yet	Cranford 2007-2009	Miss Matty Jenkyns	2017 2009 2007
No Score Yet	As Time Goes By 1992-2002	Jean Pargeter	2017 2005 2002 2001 1993
100%	The Hollow Crown 2012-2016	Cecily	2016
No Score Yet	Great Performances 2000	Cecily, Duchess of York	2016 2014
No Score Yet	Vicious 2013-2016	Voice	2014
No Score Yet	Masterpiece 1971-2014	Miss Matty Jenkyns Matty Jenkyns	2010 2008
No Score Yet	Talking to a Stranger 1966

QUOTES FROM Judi Dench CHARACTERS

Muriel	You're nineteen days older than I am.
Evelyn Greenslade	You're nineteen days older than I am.
Evelyn	Nineteen days is the life span of a wasp.
Muriel Donnelly	Nineteen days is the life span of a wasp.

Barbara Covett

Children are feral. They sense your anxiety.

Philomena Lee	We come full circle.
Martin Sixsmith	Yes ... the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.
Philomena Lee	Ah, that's lovely Martin. Did you just think of that?
Martin Sixsmith	No, it's T.S. Eliot.
Philomena Lee	Oh well never mind. It's still very nice.

Philomena Lee	And after I had the sex, I thought anything that feels so lovely must be wrong.
Martin Sixsmith	Fucking Catholics.

Philomena Lee

My Dad went to Catholic school and got my Mom pregnant. He married her. She hated me. She beat me. I wish she would have given me up for adoption.

Philomena Lee

I did not abandon my child, he was taken away from me.

Philomena Lee	If God were in there, he'd say you were a fucking idiot!
Philomena Lee	If God were in there, he'd say you were a feckin' eejit!

Philomena Lee

I forgive you because I don't want to remain angry.

Evelyn Greenslade	Is it our friend we are grieving for, whose life we knew so little? Or is it our own loss that we are mourning? Have we traveled far enough that we can allow our tears to fall?
Madge Hardcastle	When someone dies, you think about your own life. And I don't want to grow older. I don't want to be condescended to. To become marginalized and ignored by society. I don't want to be the first person they let off the plane in a hostage crisis. [chuckles]
Madge Hardcastle	When someone dies, you think about your own life. And I don't want to grow older. I don't want to be condescended to. To become marginalized and ignored by society. I don't want to be the first person they let off the plane in a hostage crisis.

Evelyn Greenslade	Didn't you have a girlfriend?
Sonny Kapoor	She is my girlfriend no longer.
Evelyn Greenslade	This is a disaster.
Sonny Kapoor	No, no. Then we must treat it just the same as we would treat a triumph, madam. Is that not what your Mr. Kipling tells us? Although, of course, here we have a problem, because I, Sunil Indrajit Kapoor, have never had a triumph. So, of course, I do not know how to treat one. No, all I've had is a constant series of disasters interspersed with occasional catastrophe, an unending stream of total...

Evelyn Greenslade

What's the use of a marriage when nothing is shared?

Evelyn Greenslade

Can there be anywhere else in the world that is such an assault on the senses? Those who know the country of old just go about their business. But nothing can prepare the uninitiated for this riot of noise and color. For the heat, the motion; the perpetual teeming crowds.

Evelyn Greenslade	[about their new environment] Initially you're overwhelmed. But gradually you realize it's like a wave. Resist, and you'll be knocked over. Dive into it, and you'll swim out the other side.
Evelyn Greenslade	Initially you're overwhelmed. But gradually you realize it's like a wave. Resist, and you'll be knocked over. Dive into it and you'll swim out the other side.

Evelyn Greenslade

The person who risks nothing, does nothing. Has nothing.

Douglas Ainslie	I invested our, well, my retirement money in our daughter's Internet company. She assured me that as soon as the startup actually, um, started up and the conversion from virtual to actual became sufficiently viable, then she'd be able to pay it all back.
Evelyn Greenslade	I'm not sure I understand what most of those words mean.
Douglas Ainslie	Well, it turns out neither did she.

Evelyn Greenslade	Yes [It is builder's tea] , we dunk biscuits into it.
Evelyn Greenslade	Yes, we dunk biscuits into it.
Jay	Dunk?
Evelyn Greenslade	Means lowering the biscuit into the tea and letting it soak in there and trying to calculate the exact moment before the biscuit dissolves, when you whip it up into your mouth and enjoy the blissful union of biscuits and tea combined. It's more relaxing than it sounds.

Evelyn Greenslade	Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected.
Muriel Donnelly	Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff.

M	And Bond, if you could avoid killing every possible lead it would be deeply appreciated.
James Bond	Yes ma'am, I'll do my best.
M	I've heard that before.

M	The prime minister's talked to Moscow. They're saying it was 'an accident during a routine training exercise.
M	The prime minister's talked to Moscow. They're saying it was an accident during a routine training exercise.
James Bond	Goverments change. The lies stay the same.

James Bond	He was a dead end.
M	My God. He's killed him!

M	Christ, I miss the Cold War!

Laura Henderson

Mr. van Damm, you are Jewish.

Laura Henderson	I'm bored with widowhood...I have to smile at everybody. I've never had to smile at everybody. In India there were always people to look down on.
Vivian Van Damm	People are merely being sympathetic. After all, you have lost your husband.
Laura Henderson	I didn't mislay him. It was most inconsiderate of Robert to die. What on earth am I supposed to do now?
Vivian Van Damm	The first rule of widowhood, my dear. Important conversations occur at lunch.

M	I need you to come in and debrief.
James Bond	I don't have time.
M	You killed a man in Bregenz.
James Bond	I did my best not to.
M	You shot him at point blank and threw him off a roof. I'd hardly call that showing restraint. Especially since he was a member of Special Branch.

Evelyn Greenslade	"But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same, so we must celebrate the changes, because, as someone once said, everything will be all right in the end, and if it's not all right, then trust me..."
Evelyn Greenslade	But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same, so we must celebrate the changes, because, as someone once said, everything will be all right in the end, and if it's not all right, then trust me...

Doctor Hall	I'm going to say a word, and I want you to say the first word that comes into your head. For example, if I say, 'day', you say...?
James Bond	Wasted.
Doctor Hall	Agent?
James Bond	Provocateur.
Doctor Hall	Woman?
James Bond	Provocatrix.
Doctor Hall	M?
M	Bitch.

M	Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled.
Q	Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled.
James Bond	Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas.

M	For gods sake, just get out of the way.

M	And Bond, if you could avoid killing every possible lead it would be greatly appreciated.
James Bond	Yes, ma'am. I'll do my best.
M	...I've heard that before.

M	God, I miss the Cold War.

Lady Bracknell	Never speak disrespectfully of Society,Algernon. Only people who can't get in do that.
Lady Bracknell	Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get in do that.

Lady Bracknell

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing may be regarded as misfortune. To lose both can be regarded as more like carelessness.

Lady Bracknell	The whole theory of modern education is unsound.Fortunately, in England in a any case, education produces no effect what-so-ever.
Lady Bracknell	The whole theory of modern education is unsound. Fortunately, in England in a any case, education produces no effect what-so-ever.

Lady Bracknell

Well, I must say, I think it was high time Mr. Bunberry made up his mind if he was going to live or die. This shilly-shallying over the question is absurd.

M	One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
M	One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

James Bond	Are you gonna complain the whole way?
M	Go on then. Eject me. See if I care.

Quoting Tennyson's poem Ulysses: Though much is taken, much abides, and though we are not now that strength which in old days, moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

M	Regret is unprofessional.

M	Bond...It's good to have you back.
M	Bond... It's good to have you back.
M	Bond? I need you back.
James Bond	I never left.

M	Take the bloody shot!

M	Where the hell have you been?
James Bond	Enjoying death.

Evelyn Greenslade	"The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment"
Evelyn Greenslade	The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

M	What's going on?
Miss Moneypenny	It's hard to explain.

M	Are you taking me hostage?
James Bond	You could call it that.

M	Where the hell have you been?!
M	Where the hell have you been?
James Bond	Enjoying death.

M	Ready to get Back to work?
M	Ready to get back to work?
James Bond	With Pleasure.
James Bond	With pleasure.

James Bond	007 Reporting For Duty.
James Bond	007 reporting for duty.
M	Why Didn't You Call?
M	Why didn't you call?
James Bond	You Didn't Get The Postcard?
James Bond	You didn't get the postcard?

M	Bond, where have you been?
James Bond	Cottaging, and?

M	Must be a pretty cold bastard who didn't want the revenge for the death of someone he loved.
James Bond	You don't have to worry about me. I'm not going to chase after him, he's not important... and neither was she.

James Bond	007 reporting for duty.
M	WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!
James Bond	Enjoying death.

M	You've got a bloody cheek!
James Bond	Sorry I'll shoot the camera first next time
M	Or yourself. You stormed into an Embassy. You violated the only absolutely inviolate rule of international relations, and why? So you could kill a nobody. We wanted to question him, not to kill him! For God's sake! You're supposed to display some kind of judgement.
James Bond	I did. I thought one less bomb maker in the world would be a good thing.
M	Exactly. One bomb maker. We're trying to figure out how an entire network of terrorist groups is financed and you give us one bomb maker. Hardly the big picture, wouldn't you say? The man isn't even a true believer. He's a gun for hire. And thanks to your overtly developed trigger finger, we have no idea who hired him or why. And how the hell did you find out where I live?!
James Bond	The same way I found out your name. I thought "M" was randomly assigned. I had no idea it stood for-
M	Utter one more syllable and I'll have you killed. I knew it was too early to promote you
James Bond	Well, I understand double-0s have a very short life-expectancy. so your mistake will be short-lived.
M	Bond, this may be too much for a blunt instrument to understand, .but arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand
James Bond	So you want me to be half monk, half hit-man?
M	I have to know I can trust you, and that you know who to trust. And since I don't know that, I need you out of my sight. Go and stick your head in the sand somewhere...and think about your future.Because these bastards want your head. And I'm seriously considering feeding you to them. And Bond......don't ever break into my house again.
James Bond	Ma'am.

Dame Sybil Thorndike	First love is sweet despair
Dame Sybil Thorndike	First love is sweet despair.

Evelyn Greenslade

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.

Evelyn Greenslade	I need a glass of water, glug glug, that was a gin and tonic.... I know that now.
Evelyn Greenslade	I need a glass of water, glug glug, that was a gin and tonic... I know that now.

Dame Sybil Thorndike

First love is such a sweet despair, Colin.

Evelyn Greenslade	The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with the dissappointment, as we all must
Evelyn Greenslade	The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with the dissappointment, as we all must.

Evelyn Greenslade	India is an assault on the senses. Itâ??s like a wave; resist and you go under, ride it out and you arrive at the others side.
Evelyn Greenslade	India is an assault on the senses. It's like a wave; resist and you go under, ride it out and you arrive at the others side.

Dame Sybil Thorndike

None of the rest of us truly know how to act for the camera, but you do. It's a rare gift.

James Bond	So it's a shadow operation?
M	Just remember that shadows stay in front or behind...never on top.

Evelyn Greenslade

Definition of 'Dunk'; Means lowering the biscuit into the tea and letting it soak in there trying to calculate the exact moment before the biscuit dissolves, when you whip it up into your mouth and enjoy the blissful union of biscuits and tea combined. It's more relaxing than it sounds.

Evelyn Greenslade	If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it.
Muriel Donnelly	If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it.

Barbara Covett

No one can violate our magnificent complicity.

Barbara Covett

Well, I am glad I was such an aphrodisiac.

Mrs. Fairfax

You're so little acquainted with men. Keep him at a distance.

Anne Marie Hoover

I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil.

Lady Catherine De Bourgh

You have a very small garden, Madame.

Anne Marie Hoover

Edgar, you will rise to be the most powerful man in this country.

M	You expect it to be hyperbole, florist's use that expression!
M	When someone says 'We've got people everywhere', you expect it to be hyperbole! Lots of people say that. Florists use that expression.

Agnis Hamm	"Tea's a good drink. Keeps you going."
Agnis Hamm	Tea's a good drink. Keep you going.

M	M: Go and stick your head in the sand and think about your future.
M	Go and stick your head in the sand and think about your future.

M	"I need to know that I can trust you"
M	I need to know that I can trust you.
James Bond	"And you don't?"
James Bond	And you don't?
M	"I'd say you were a pretty cold bastard if you didn't want revenge for the death of someone you loved"
M	I'd say you were a pretty cold bastard if you didn't want revenge for the death of someone you loved.

Lilli

Directing a movie is a very overrated job, we all know it. You just have to say yes or no. What else do you do? Nothing. "Maestro, should this be red?" Yes. "Green?" No. "More extras?" Yes. "More lipstick?" No. Yes. No. Yes. No. That's directing.

M	Who the hell is this organisation Bond? How can they be everywhere and we know nothing about them!
M	Who the hell is this organization, Bond? How can they be everywhere and we know nothing about them!