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Dame Judi Dench
CH DBE FRSA
Dench at the 2007 BAFTAs.
Born
Judith Olivia Dench

(1934-12-09) 9 December 1934 (age 90)[1]
York, Yorkshire, England
Occupation(s)Actress, Author[2]
Years active1957–present
SpouseMichael Williams (1971–2001; his death)
ChildrenFinty Williams

Dame Judith Olivia 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 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 has played in each James Bond film since. 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).

Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television; her awards include eleven BAFTAs, (including the Bafta Fellowship in 2001) seven Laurence Olivier Awards, (including the Society's Special Award) two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. In June 2011, she received a fellowship from the British Film Institute (BFI).[3] She was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of actress Finty Williams.

Personal life

Dench was born in Heworth, York, England, the daughter of Eleanora Olave (née Jones), a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor who met Judi's mother while studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin.[4] Dench attended the Mount School, a Quaker independent secondary school in York, and became a Quaker.[5][6] Her brothers, one of whom is actor Jeffery Dench, were born in Tyldesley, Lancashire.[5][6] Notable relatives also include her niece, Emma Dench, a Roman historian and professor previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7] In 1971, Dench married British actor Michael Williams and they had their only child, Tara Cressida Frances Williams, known professionally as "Finty" Williams, on 24 September 1972. Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions, and the Bob Larbey British television sitcom, A Fine Romance (1981–84). Michael Williams died from lung cancer in 2001, aged 65. In early 2012, Dench discussed her macular degeneration, with one eye "dry" and the other "wet", for which she has been treated with injections into the eye. She said that she needs someone to read scripts to her.[8]

Career

In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her forte throughout her career. She has more than once been named number one in polls for Britain's best actress.[9][10]

Early years

Through her parents, Dench had regular contact with the theatre. Her father, a physician, was also the GP for the York theatre, and her mother was its wardrobe mistress.[11] Actors often stayed in the Dench household. During these years, Judi was involved on a non-professional basis in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays in the 1950s. In 1957, in one of the last productions in which she appeared during this period, she played the role of the Virgin Mary, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens.[12] Though she initially trained as a set designer, she became interested in drama school as her brother Jeff attended the Central School of Speech and Drama.[11] She applied and was accepted, where she was a classmate of Vanessa Redgrave, graduating with a first class degree in drama and four acting prizes, one being the Gold Medal as Outstanding Student.[11]

In September 1957, she made her first professional stage appearance with the Old Vic Company, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, as Ophelia in Hamlet, then her London debut in the same production at the Old Vic. She remained a member of the company for four seasons, 1957–1961, her roles including Katherine in Henry V in 1958 (which was also her New York debut), and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in October 1960, directed and designed by Franco Zeffirelli. During this period, she toured the United States and Canada, and appeared in Yugoslavia and at the Edinburgh Festival. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in December 1961 playing Anya in The Cherry Orchard at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and made her Stratford-upon-Avon debut in April 1962 as Isabella in Measure for Measure. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory both with the Playhouse in Nottingham from January 1963 (including a West African tour as Lady Macbeth for the British Council), and with the Playhouse Company in Oxford from April 1964. That same year, she made her film debut in The Third Secret.

Prominence

In 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. As Sheridan Morley later reported: "At first she thought they were joking. She had never done a musical and she has an unusual croaky voice which sounds as if she has a permanent cold. So frightened was she of singing in public that she auditioned from the wings, leaving the pianists alone on stage".[13] But when it opened at the Palace Theatre in February 1968, Frank Marcus, reviewing for Plays and Players, commented that: "She sings well. The title song in particular is projected with great feeling." After a long run in Cabaret, she rejoined the RSC making numerous appearances with the company in Stratford and London for nearly twenty years, winning several best actress awards. Among her roles with the RSC, she was the Duchess in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1971. In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's "British Raj" revival of Much Ado About Nothing. As Bernard Levin wrote in The Sunday Times: "...demonstrating once more that she is a comic actress of consummate skill, perhaps the very best we have."[14] One of her most notable achievements with the RSC was her performance as Lady Macbeth in 1976. Nunn's acclaimed production of Macbeth was first staged with a minimalist design at The Other Place theatre in Stratford. Its small round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both Ian McKellen in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices. "If this is not great acting I don't know what is", wrote Michael Billington in The Guardian. "It will astonish me if the performance is matched by any in this actress's generation", commented J C Trewin in The Lady. The production transferred to London, opening at the Donmar Warehouse in September 1977, and was adapted for television, later released on VHS and DVD. Dench won the SWET Best Actress Award in 1977.

Dench was nominated for a BAFTA for her role as Hazel Wiles in the 1979 BBC drama On Giant's Shoulders.[15] In 1989, she was cast as Pru Forrest, the long-time silent wife of Tom Forrest, in the BBC soap opera The Archers on its 10,000th edition.[16] She had a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside. Dench made her debut as a director in 1988 with the Renaissance Theatre Company's touring season, Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, co-produced with the Birmingham Rep, and ending with a three month repertory programme at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Dench's contribution was a staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice. She has made numerous appearances in the West End including the role of Miss Trant in the 1974 musical version of The Good Companions at Her Majesty's Theatre. In 1981, Dench was due to play the title role of Grizabella in the original production of Cats, but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving Elaine Paige to play the role.[17] She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.

In 1995, she took over the role of M (James Bond's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with GoldenEye replacing Robert Brown. She has appeared in six James Bond films, including Die Another Day (2002), Casino Royale (2006) and its direct sequel Quantum of Solace (2008), making her the longest-running current cast member of the series. Her seventh Bond film, Skyfall, is released on 26 October 2012; after the Royal world premier on 23 October at the Royal Albert Hall. She has won multiple awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards. She also won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in David Hare's Amy's View. She has taken on the role of Director for a number of stage productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare in Love. Judi Dench has frequently appeared with her close friend Geoffrey Palmer. They co-starred in the series As Time Goes By, where she played Jean Pargetter, becoming Jean Hardcastle after she married Lionel Hardcastle. The programme spanned nine seasons. They also worked together on the films Mrs. Brown and Tomorrow Never Dies, both filmed in 1997. Dench has also lent her distinctive voice to many animated characters, narrations, and various other voice work. She plays the role of "Miss Lilly" in the children's animated series Angelina Ballerina (alongside her daughter, Finty Williams, as the voice of Angelina) and as Mrs. Calloway in the Disney animated film Home on the Range. She has narrated various classical music recordings (notably Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Britten's Canticles-The Heart of the Matter), and has appeared in numerous BBC Radio broadcasts as well as commercials. Her many television appearances include lead roles in the series A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By. In the United States, As Time Goes By has been repeated on PBS and on BBC America.

Recent years

Dench returned to the West End stage in April 2006 in Hay Fever alongside Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang and Kim Medcalf. She finished off 2006 with the role of Mistress Quickly in the RSC's new musical The Merry Wives, a version of The Merry Wives of Windsor.[18] Dench's more recent film career has 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. In 2007, the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet (1966), Keep an Eye on Amélie (1973), The Cherry Orchard (1981), Going Gently (1981), Ghosts (with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987), Make and Break (with Robert Hardy, 1987), Can You Hear Me Thinking? (co-starring with her husband, Michael Williams, 1990) and Absolute Hell (1991).[19] Dench, as Miss Matty Jenkins, co-starred with Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis, in the BBC One five-part series Cranford. The series began transmission in the UK in November 2007, and on the BBC's U.S. producing partner station WGBH (PBS Boston) in spring 2008.

Dench became the voice for the narration for the updated Walt Disney World Epcot attraction Spaceship Earth in February 2008. In February 2008, she was named as the first official patron of the York Youth Mysteries 2008, a project to allow young people to explore the York Mystery Plays through dance, film-making and circus. This culminated on 21 June with a day of city centre performances in York. She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum of Solace and reprised her role as M. She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, "Smokey Oakey", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.[20] She returned to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in Yukio Mishima's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar season at Wyndham's Theatre. A year later, Dench renewed her collaboration with Sir Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames in A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as Queen Elizabeth I in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Judi performed Send in the Clowns at a special celebratory promenade concert from the Royal Albert Hall as part of the proms season, in honour of composer Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, the entire concert in honour of his music.[21][22]

Public life

Dench was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970[23] and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1988.[24] She was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2005.[25] In June 2011, she became a fellow of the British Film Institute (BFI).[3] Dench is a patron of the Leaveners, Friends School Saffron Walden and the Archway Theatre, Horley, Surrey. She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006,[26] taking over from Sir John Mills, and is also president of the Questors Theatre, Ealing. In May 2006, she became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was also patron of Ovingdean Hall School, a special day and boarding school for the deaf and hard of hearing in Brighton, which closed in 2010,[27] and Vice President of The Little Foundation. Dench is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In 1996, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (D.Univ) from Surrey University[28] and in 2000–2001 she received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University.[29] In July 2000, she was awarded a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) by Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, where she actively supported their Drama School at the Gateway Theatre on Elm Row.[citation needed] On 24 June 2008, she was honoured by the University of St Andrews, receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) at the university's graduation ceremony.[30]

Political and social interests and involvement

Dench has worked with the non-governmental indigenous organisation, Survival International, campaigning in the defence of the tribal people, the Bushmen of Botswana and the Arhuaco of Colombia. She made a small supporting video saying the Bushmen are victims of tyranny, greed and racism.[31][32] On 22 July 2010, Dench was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by Nottingham Trent University.[33] The Dr. Hadwen Trust announced on 15 January 2011 that Dench had become a patron of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, Joanna Lumley and David Shepherd.[34] On 19 March 2012 it was announced that Dench was to become honorary patron of the charity "Everton in the Community", the official charity of Everton F.C. in Everton, Liverpool. It was also revealed that Dench is a supporter of Everton.[35] She is an advisor to the American Shakespeare Center. She is patron of East Park Riding for the Disabled, a riding school for disabled children at Newchapel, Surrey.[36] In 2011 along with musician Sting and entrepreneur Richard Branson she publicly urged policy makers to adapt more progressive drug policies by decriminalizing drug use.[37]

Filmography

Film and television

Year Title Role Notes
1959 Hilda Lessways Hilda Lessways TV series (6 episodes)
1959 ITV Play of the Week Dido Morgan/Kate Barclay/Louisa Lindley TV series (6 episodes)
1960 The Terrible Choice TV series
1960 Armchair Theatre Emily Strachan TV series (1 episode: "Pink String and Sealing Wax")
1960 An Age of Kings Princess Katherine of France TV series (2 episodes)
1960 The Four Just Men Anna TV series (1 episode: "Treviso Dam")
1962 The Cherry Orchard Anya TV movie
1963 Z Cars Elena Collins TV series (1 episode: "Made for Each Other")
1964 Festival Angela Thwaites TV series (1 episode: "August for the People")
1964 The Third Secret Miss Humphries
1964 Detective Charlotte Revel TV series (1 episode: "Dishonoured Bones")
1964 Theatre 625 Terry Stevens/Valentine Wannop TV series (7 episodes)
1965 Four in the Morning Wife
1965 Mogel Gwyneth Evans TV series (1 episode: "Safety Man")
1965 A Study in Terror Sally
1965 He Who Rides a Tiger Joanne
1966 Court Martial Marthe TV series (1 episode: "Let No Man Speak")
1966 BBC Play of the Month Elizebeth Moris TV series (1 episode: "Days to Come")
1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania
1968 Jackanory Storyteller TV series (12 episodes)
1968 ITV Playhouse Helen Payle TV series (1 episode: "On Approval")
1970 Confession Woman TV series (1 episode: "Neighbours")
1973 Ooh La La! Amélie TV series (1 episode: "Keep an Eye on Amélie")
1974 Luther Katherine
1974 2nd House TV series (1 episode: "Frank's for the Memory")
1974 Dead Cert Laura Davidson
1978 The Comedy of Errors Adriana TV movie
1978 Langrishe, Go Down Imogen Langrishe BBC TV movie
1979 A Performance of Macbeth Lady Macbeth TV movie
1979 On Giant's Shoulders Hazel Wiles BBC TV movie
1979 ITV Playhouse Z TV series (1 episode: "Village Wooing")
1980 Love in a Cold Climate Aunt Sadie TV mini-series (8 episodes)
1981 The Cherry Orchard Mme. Ranevsky TV movie
1981 BBC2 Playhouse Sister Scarli TV series (1 episode: "Going Gently")
1981–1984 A Fine Romance Laura Dalton TV series (26 episodes)
1982 Spaceship Earth 4th Edition Narrator Short
1983 Saigon: Year of the Cat Barbara Dean TV movie
1985 The Browning Version Millie Crocker-Harris TV movie
1985 Wetherby Marcia Pilborough
1985 A Room with a View Eleanor Lavish
1985 Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill Dorrie Edgehill TV movie
1987 The Angelic Conversation Narrator
1987 84 Charing Cross Road Nora Doel
1987 Theatre Night Mrs. Alving/Mrs. Rogers TV series (2 episodes)
1988 A Handful of Dust Mrs. Beaver
1989 Henry V Mistress Quickly
1989 Behaving Badly Bridget Mayor
1990 Screen One Anna TV series (1 episode: "Can You Hear Me Thinking?")
1991 Performance Christine Foskett TV series (1 episode: "Absolute Hell")
1992 The Torch Aba TV mini-series
1992–2005 As Time Goes By Jean Mary Hardcastle TV series (67 episodes)
1993 ABC For Kids Announcer
1994 Middlemarch George Eliot (voice) TV mini-series (2 episodes)
1995 Jack and Sarah Margaret
1995 GoldenEye M
1996 Hamlet Hecuba
1997 Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown Queen Victoria
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies M
1998 Shakespeare in Love Queen Elizabeth I
1999 Tea with Mussolini Arabella
1999 The World Is Not Enough M/Barbara Mawdsley
2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Narrator Documentary
2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Elizabeth TV movie
2000 Chocolat Armande Voizin
2001 Iris Iris Murdoch
2001 The Shipping News Agnis Hamm
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Augusta Bracknell
2002 Die Another Day M
2002 Angelina Ballerina Miss Lilly (voice) TV series (23 episodes)
2003 Bugs! Narrator Short
2004 Home on the Range Mrs. Caloway (voice)
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick Aereon
2004 Ladies in Lavender Ursula Widdington
2005 Pride & Prejudice Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2005 Mrs Henderson Presents Mrs. Laura Henderson
2006 The Magic Roundabout Narrator
2006 Doogal Narrator (voice)
2006 Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Sets Sail Miss Lilly (voice)
2006 Casino Royale M
2006 Notes on a Scandal Barbara Covett
2007 Go Inside to Greet the Light Narrator
2007 Cranford Miss Matty
2008 Quantum of Solace M
2009 Rage Mona Carvell
2009 Nine Lilli
2009 Return to Cranford Miss Matty
2011 Jane Eyre Mrs. Fairfax
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Society Lady
2011 My Week with Marilyn Dame Sybil Thorndike
2011 Friend Request Pending Mary Short
2011 J. Edgar Annie Hoover
2012 Run For Your Wife Bag Lady Cameo
2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Evelyn Greenslade
2012 Skyfall M Post-production
2013 Better Living Through Chemistry Post-production
2013 Philomena[38] Philomena Lee
2014 Bond 24 M Post-production

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2004 007: Everything or Nothing M Voice
2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent M Voice
2008 007: Quantum of Solace M Voice
2010 GoldenEye 007 M Voice
2010 James Bond 007: Blood Stone M Voice
2012 007 Legends M Voice

Theatre work

Source: "Judi Dench: With a Crack in her Voice" by John Miller

As an actress

Year Title Role Company Theatre Notes
1957 York Mystery Plays Virgin Mary Old Vic Company St Mary's Abbey
1957 Hamlet Ophelia Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1957 Measure for Measure Juliet Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1957 A Midsummer Night's Dream First Fairy Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1958 Twelfth Night Maria Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre also US tour
1958 Henry V Katharine Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre also US tour
1959 The Double Dealer Cynthia Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1959 As You Like It Phebe Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1959 The Importance of Being Earnest Cecily Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1959 The Merry Wives of Windsor Anne Page Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1960 Richard II Queen Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1960 Romeo and Juliet Juliet Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre also Venice Festival
1960 She Stoops to Conquer Kate Hardcastle Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1960 A Midsummer Night's Dream Hermia Old Vic Company Old Vic Theatre
1961 The Cherry Orchard Anya Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1962 Measure for Measure Isabella Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1962 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titiana Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1962 A Penny for a Song Dorcas Bellboys Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1963 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Nottingham Playhouse Company also West Africa tour
1963 Twelfth Night Viola Nottingham Playhouse Company also West Africa tour
1963 A Shot in the Dark Josefa Lautenay Nottingham Playhouse Company Lyric Theatre
1964 Three Sisters Irina Oxford Playhouse Company
1964 The Twelfth Hour Anna Oxford Playhouse Company
1965 The Alchemist Dol Common Oxford Playhouse Company
1965 Romeo and Jeannette Jeannette Oxford Playhouse Company
1965 The Firescreen Jacqueline Oxford Playhouse Company
1965 Measure for Measure Isabella Nottingham Playhouse Company
1965 Private Lives Amanda Nottingham Playhouse Company
1966 The Country Wife Margery Pinchwife Nottingham Playhouse Company
1966 The Astrakhan Coat Barbara Nottingham Playhouse Company
1966 St Joan Joan Nottingham Playhouse Company
1966 The Promise Lika Oxford Playhouse Company
1966 The Rules of the Game Silia Oxford Playhouse Company
1967 The Promise Lika Oxford Playhouse Company Fortune Theatre
1968 Cabaret Sally Bowles Palace Theatre
1969 The Winter's Tale Hermione and Perdita Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1969 Women Beware Women Bianca Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1969 Twelfth Night Viola Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1970 London Assurance Grace Harkaway Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1970 Major Barbara Barbara Undershaft Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1971 The Merchant of Venice Portia Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1971 The Duchess of Malfi Duchess Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1971 Toad of Toad Hall Fielfmouse, Stoat and Mother Rabbit Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1973 Content to Whisper Aurelia – Royal, York
1973 The Wolf Vilma – Oxford Playhouse also at Apollo, Queen's and New London
1974 The Good Companions Miss Trant – Her Majesty's Theatre
1975 The Gay Lord Quex Sophy Fullgarney – Albery Theatre
1975 Too True to Be Good Sweetie Simpkins Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1976 Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1976 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford also Donmar Warehouse and Young Vic
1976 The Comedy of Errors Adriana Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1976 King Lear Regan Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1977 Pillars of the Community Lona Hessel Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1978 The Way of the World Millamant Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1979 Cymbeline Imogen Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
1980 Juno and the Paycock Juno Boyle Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1981 A Village Wooing Young Woman – New End Theatre
1982 The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell Royal National Theatre Lyttelton
1982 A Kind of Alaska Deborah Royal National Theatre Cottesloe
1983 Pack of Lies Barbara Jackson Royal National Theatre Lyric
1984 Mother Courage Mother Courage Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican
1984 Waste Amy O'Connell Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican and Lyric
1986 Mr and Mrs Nobody Carrie Pooter – Garrick Theatre
1987 Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra Royal National Theatre Olivier
1987 Entertaining Strangers Sarah Eldridge Royal National Theatre Cottesloe
1989 Hamlet Gertrude Royal National Theatre Olivier
1989 The Cherry Orchard Ranevskaya Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre
1991 The Plough and the Stars Bessie Burgess Royal Shakespeare Company Young Vic
1991 The Sea Mrs Rafi Royal National Theatre Lyttelton
1992 Coriolanus Volumnia Royal National Theatre Chichester
1992 The Gift of the Gorgon Helen Damson Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican and Wyndham's
1994 The Seagull Arkadina Royal National Theatre Olivier
1995 Absolute Hell Christine Foskett Royal National Theatre Lyttelton
1995 A Little Night Music Desiree Armfeldt Royal National Theatre Olivier
1997 Amy's View Esme Royal National Theatre Lyttelton
1998 Amy's View Esme Royal National Theatre Aldwych Theatre
1998 Filumena Filumena – Piccadilly Theatre
1999 Amy's View Esme – Barrymore Theatre New York City
2001 The Royal Family Fanny Cavendish – Theatre Royal Haymarket
2002 The Breath of Life Frances – Theatre Royal Haymarket
2003 All's Well That Ends Well The Countess Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford and Gielgud
2006 Hay Fever Judith Bliss – Theatre Royal Haymarket
2006 The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Quickly Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford
2009 Madame de Sade The Marquise – Wyndham's Donmar at Wyndham's
2010 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania/Elizabeth I – Rose, Kingston
2013 Peter and Alice Alice – Noel Coward Theatre

As a director

Discography

Awards and nominations

Film

Awards
Nominations

Television

Awards
Nominations

Theatre

Awards
Nominations

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Further reading

  • Dench, Judi. And Furthermore. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010. ISBN 978-0-297-85967-3.
  • Lavery, Alison (ed.). The Judi Dench Handbook. Emereo, 2010. ISBN 978-1-74244-659-2.
  • Miller, John (ed.). Darling Judi: A Celebration of Judi Dench. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN 0-297-84791-0.
  • Trowbridge, Simon. The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oxford: Editions Albert Creed, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9559830-2-3.
  • Herbert, Ian (1981). Who's Who in the Theatre (17th ed.). Detroit: Gale. ISBN 0-273-01717-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Billington, Michael (1993). One Night Stands: A critic's view of British theatre from 1971–1991. London: Nick Hern Books. ISBN 1-85459-185-1.
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