Famous For
Awards:
BAFTAs (9 Time Winner)
Laurence Olivier Awards (7 Time Winner)
Screen Actors Guild Awards (2 Time Winner)
Academy Award
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Award


Quick Bio
Before starting her professional career, Judi Dench trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, and was involved in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays in the 1950s. Most famously, she played the role of the Virgin Mary in the 1957 production, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens.

In 1995, she became known to an international audience after taking over the role of M (James Bond's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with GoldenEye. She is one of the few actors from Pierce Brosnan's Bond films to remain in the rebooted franchise. She has appeared in 2006's Casino Royale and its direct sequel Quantum of Solace.

Dench's more recent film career has been extremely successful. She successfully garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mrs Henderson Presents (a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre) in 2005; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations. At the end of 2006 Dench worked pro bono to record information announcements for Tramlink.