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Dame Judi Dench
CH
DBE
FRSA |
Dench at the BAFTAs, 11 February 2007 |
| Born |
Judith Olivia Dench
9 December 1934 (age 78)[1]
York,
Yorkshire, England |
| Occupation |
Actress, Author[2] |
| Years active |
1957–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Michael Williams (5 February 1971– 11 January 2001; his
death) |
| Children |
Finty Williams (b. 24 September 1972) |
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
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.
Over 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 continued to play in
James Bond films through to
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).
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 Olive (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]
On 5 February 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.
Popular success
In 1995, Dench took over the role of
M (James
Bond's boss) in the
James Bond film series, starting with
GoldenEye, replacing
Robert Brown.
In 1997, Dench appeared in her first starring role as late monarch
Queen Victoria in
John Madden's teleplay
Mrs. Brown which depicts Victoria's relationship with her
personal servant and
favourite
John Brown, played by
Billy Connolly. Filmed with the intention of being shown on
BBC One
and on
WGBH's
Masterpiece Theatre, it was eventually acquired by
Miramax mogul
Harvey Weinstein, who felt the drama film should receive a
theatrical release after seeing it and took it from the BBC to US
cinemas.[18]
Released to generally positive reviews and unexpected commercial
success, going on to earn more than $13 million worldwide,[19]
the film was screened in the
Un Certain Regard section at the
1997 Cannes Film Festival.[20]
For her performance, Dench garnered universal acclaim by critics and was
awarded her fourth
BAFTA and first
Best Actress nomination at the
70th Academy Awards.[21]
In 2011, while accepting a
British Film Institute Award in London, Dench commented that the
project launched her
Hollywood career and joked that "it was thanks to Harvey, whose name
I have had tattooed on my bum ever since."[18]
Dench's other film of 1997 was
Roger Spottiswoode's
Tomorrow Never Dies, her second film in the
James Bond series. The spy film follows Bond, played by
Brosnan, as he tries to stop a
media mogul from engineering world events and starting
World War III. Shot in France, Thailand, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Vietnam and the
South China Sea, it performed well at the box office and earned a
Golden Globe nomination despite mixed reviews. In 1999, Dench 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.
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). 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.
2001–2005
In January 2001, Dench's husband
Michael Williams died from
lung cancer. The actress went to
Nova Scotia,
Canada,
almost immediately after Williams's funeral to begin production on
Lasse Hallström's drama film
The Shipping News, a therapy she later credited as her rescue:
"People, friends, kept saying, 'You are not facing up to it; you need to
face up to it,' and maybe they were right, but I felt I was – in the
acting. Grief supplies you with an enormous amount of energy. I needed
to use that up."[22]
In between, Dench finished work on
Richard Eyre's film
Iris (2001), in which she portrayed novelist
Iris Murdoch. Dench shared her role with
Kate Winslet, both actresses portraying Murdoch at different phases
of her life.[23]
Each of them was nominated for an
Academy Award the following year, earning Dench her fourth
nomination within five years.[21]
In addition, she was awarded both an
ALFS Award and the
Best Leading Actress Award at the
55th British Academy Film Awards.[21]
Following Iris, Dench immediately returned to Canada to finish
The Shipping News alongside
Kevin Spacey and
Julianne Moore.[22]
Based on the
Pulitzer Prize winning
novel by
E. Annie Proulx, the drama revolves a quiet and introspective
typesetter (Spacey) who, after the death of his daughter's mother, moves
to
Newfoundland along with his daughter and his aunt, played by Dench,
in hopes of starting his life anew in the small town where she grew up.
The film earned mixed reviews from critics,[24]
and was financially unsuccessful, taking in just US$24 million worldwide
with a budget of US$35 million.[25]
Dench however, received BAFTA and SAG Award nominations for her
performance.[21]
In 2002, Dench was cast opposite
Rupert Everett,
Colin Firth and
Reese Witherspoon in
Oliver Parker's
The Importance of Being Earnest, a romantic comedy film about
mistaken identity set in English high society during the
Victorian Era. Based on
Oscar Wilde's classic
comedy of manners play
of the same name, she portrayed Lady Bracknell in the film, a role
she had repeatedly played before, including a stint at the
Royal National Theatre in 1982.[26]
Dench shared the character with her daughter Finty, who portrayed the
same character at a younger age.[27]
The film was released to lukewarm reactions by critics – who called it
"breezy entertainment, helped by an impressive cast", but felt that it
also suffered "from some peculiar directorial choices" – and earned just
US$17.3 million during its limited release.[28]
Dench's other film of 2002 was
Die Another Day, the twentieth installment in the
James Bond series. The
Lee Tamahori–directed spy film marked her fourth appearance as
MI6 head M and the franchise's last performance by
Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Die Another Day received generally
mixed reviews by critics who praised Tamahori's work on the film, but
claimed the plot was damaged by excessive use of
CGI.[29][30]
Regardless, it became the highest-grossing James Bond film up to that
time.[31]
In 2004, Dench appeared as Aereon, an ambassador of the
Elemental
race who helps uncover the mysterious past of
Richard B. Riddick, played by
Vin
Diesel, in
David Twohy's science fiction
sequel
The Chronicles of Riddick. Selected by Diesel, who prompted
writers to re-create the character to fit a female persona because he
wanted to work with the actress,[32]
Dench called filming "tremendous fun," though she "had absolutely no
idea what was going on in the plot."[33]
A medicore box office success, the film was largely panned by critics.[34]
In his review of the film,
James Berardinelli from
ReelViews remarked that he felt that Dench's character served
nothing more than "a useful purpose than to give [her] an opportunity to
appear in a science fiction movie."[35]
She followed Riddick with a more traditional role in
Charles Dance's period drama
Ladies in Lavender, also starring friend
Maggie Smith. In the film, Dench plays one half of a sister duo who
takes it upon herself to nurse a washed up stranger to health,
eventually finding herself falling for a man many decades younger than
she. The specialty release garnered positive reviews from critics, with
Roger Ebert of the
Chicago Sun-Times calling it "perfectly sweet and civilized
[and] a pleasure to watch Smith and Dench together; their acting is so
natural it could be breathing."[36]
Also in 2004, Dench provided her voice for several smaller projects. In
Walt Disney's
Home on the Range, she along with
Roseanne Barr and
Jennifer Tilly voiced a mismatched trio of
dairy cows who must capture an infamous cattle rustler, for his
bounty, in order to save their idyllic farm from foreclosure. The
film became a lukewarm critical and commercial success for Disney.[37]
A major hit for Dench came with
Joe
Wright's
Pride & Prejudice, a 2005 adaptation of the same-titled novel by
Jane Austen, also starring
Keira Knightley and
Donald Sutherland. Wright convinced Dench to join the cast as Lady
Catherine de Bourgh by writing her a letter that read "I love it when
you play a bitch. Please come and be a bitch for me."
Dench had only one week available to shoot her scenes, forcing Wright to
make them his first days of filming.
With both a worldwide gross of over US$121 million and several Academy
Award and Golden Globe nominations, the film became a critical and
commercial success.[42]
2006–2010
Dench in her role as M (Olivia Mansfield) was the only cast member
carried through from the
Brosnan films to appear in
Casino Royale (2006), Martin Campbell's
reboot of the James Bond film series, starring
Daniel Craig in his debut performance as the fictional MI6 agent.
The thriller received largely positive critical response, with reviewers
highlighting Craig's performance and the reinvention of the character of
Bond.[43]
It earned over US$594 million worldwide, ranking it among the
highest-grossing James Bond films ever released. In April 2006, Dench
returned to the West End stage 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.[44]
Dench at the premiere of Notes on a Scandal in
Berlin.
Dench appeared opposite
Cate Blanchett as a bitter, creepy and iron-fisted London teacher
with a dedicated fondness for vulnerable women in
Richard Eyre's 2006 drama film
Notes on a Scandal, an adaption from the 2003
novel of the same name by
Zoë
Heller. A fan of the Heller's book, Dench "was thrilled to be asked
to [...] play that woman, to try to find a humanity in that dreadful
person."[45]
The specialty film opened to generally positive reviews and commercial
success, grossing US$50 million worldwide,[46]
exceeding its £15 million budget.[47]
In his review for
Chicago Sun-Times film critic
Roger Ebert declared the main actresses "perhaps the most impressive
acting duo in any film of 2006. Dench and Blanchett are magnificent."[48]
The following year, Dench earned her sixth
Academy nomination and went on to win a
BIFA Award and an
Evening Standard Award.[21]
Dench, as Miss Matty Jenkyns, co-starred with
Eileen Atkins,
Michael Gambon,
Imelda Staunton and
Francesca Annis in the
BBC One
five-part series
Cranford. The first season of the series began transmission in
November 2007.
Dench became the voice for the narration for the updated
Walt Disney World
Epcot
attraction
Spaceship Earth in February 2008.[49]
The same month, 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.[50]
Her only film of 2008 was
Marc Forster's
Quantum of Solace, the twenty-second
Eon-produced
James Bond film, in which she reprised her role as M along with
Daniel Craig. A direct sequel to the 2006 film Casino Royale,
Forster felt Dench was underused in the previous films and wanted to
make her part bigger, having her interact with Bond more.[51]
The project gathered generally mixed reviews by critics who mainly felt
that Quantum of Solace was not as impressive as the predecessor
Casino Royale,[52]
but became another hit for the franchise with a worldwide gross of
US$591 million.[53]
For her performance, Dench was nominated for a
Saturn Award the following year.[54]
Dench returned to the West End in mid-2009, playing Madame de
Merteuil in
Yukio Mishima's play
Madame de Sade, directed by
Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar season at
Wyndham's Theatre.[55]
The same year, she appeared in
Sally Potter's experimental film
Rage, a project that featured 14 actors playing fictional
figures in and around the fashion world, giving monologues before a
plain backdrop.[56]
Attracted to the fact that it was unlike anything she had done before,
Dench welcomed the opportunity to work with Potter.[56]
"I like to do something that's not expected, or predictable. I had to
learn to smoke a joint, and I set my trousers alight," she said about
filming.[56]
Dench's next film was
Rob Marshall's musical film
Nine, based on
Arthur Kopit's
book
for the 1982
musical of the same name, which was itself suggested by
Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film
8½.[57]
Also starring
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Marion Cotillard,
Penélope Cruz, and
Sophia Loren, she played Lilli La Fleur, an eccentric but motherly
French costume designer, who performs the song "Folies
Bergères" in the film. Despite mixed to negative reviews, Nine
was nominated for four
Academy Awards,[58]
and awarded both the
Satellite Award for Best Film and
Best Cast.[21]
Also in 2009, Dench reprised the role of Matilda Jenkyns in
Return to Cranford, the two-part second season of a
Simon Curtis television series. Critically acclaimed, Dench was
nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a
Satellite Award.[21]
In 2010, she renewed her collaboration with
Peter Hall at the
Rose Theatre in
Kingston upon Thames in
A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opened in February 2010; she
played Titania as
Queen Elizabeth I in her later years – almost 50 years after she
first played the role for the Royal Shakespeare Company.[59]
In July 2010, Dench 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.[60][61]
2011–present
In 2011, Dench starred in
Jane Eyre,
My Week with Marilyn and
J.
Edgar. In
Cary Joji Fukunaga's period drama Jane Eyre, based on the
1847
novel of the same name by
Charlotte Brontë, she played the short role of Alice Fairfax, the
aloof and brooding master of Thornfield Hall, where main character Jane,
played by
Mia Wasikowska, gets employed as a
governess.[62]
Dench reportedly signed on to the project after she had received a
humorous personal note from Fukunaga, in which he "promised her that
she'd be the sexiest woman on set if she did the film."[63]
Acclaimed among critics,[64]
it was a mediocre arthouse success at the box office, grossing US$30.5
million worldwide.[65]
In
Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, which depicts the making
of the 1957 film
The Prince and the Showgirl starring
Marilyn Monroe and
Laurence Olivier, Dench played late British actress
Sybil Thorndike during her work on set of the
Laurence Olivier film. The film garnered largely positive reviews,
particularly for
Michelle Williams and
Kenneth Branagh's performances,[66]
and earned Dench a
Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination at the
65th BAFTA Awards.[21]
Dench's last film of 2011 was
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a
biographical drama film about the career of
FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover, played by
Leonardo DiCaprio, from the
Palmer Raids onwards, including an examination of his private life
as an alleged
closeted homosexual.[67]
Hand-picked by Eastwood to play Anna Marie Hoover, Hoover's mother,
Dench initially thought a friend was setting her up upon receiving
Eastwood's phone call request. "I didn't take it seriously to start
with. And then I realised it was really him and that was a tricky
conversation," she stated.[45]
Released to mixed reception, both with critics and commercially, the
film went on to gross US$79 million worldwide.[68]
The same year, Dench reunited with
Rob Marshall and
Johnny Depp for a
cameo appearance in
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, playing a
noblewoman who is robbed by
Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Depp.[69]
She made a second cameo that year in
Ray
Cooney's star-studded comedy film
Run for Your Wife.[70]
In 2011, Dench reunited with director
John Madden on the set of the
comedy-drama
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), starring an
ensemble cast also consisting of
Celia Imrie,
Bill Nighy,
Ronald Pickup,
Maggie Smith,
Tom Wilkinson and
Penelope Wilton as a group of British
pensioners moving to a
retirement hotel in
India,
run by the young and eager Sonny, played by
Dev
Patel. Released to positive reviews by critics,[71]
who declared the film a "sweet story about the senior set featuring a
top-notch cast of veteran actors,"[71]
it became a surprise box-office hit following its international release,
eventually grossing $US134 million worldwide, mostly from its domestic
run.[72]
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was ranked among the highest-grossing
specialty releases of the year,[73]
and Dench, whose
Peter Travers from
Rolling Stone called "resilient marvel",[74]
garnered a
Best Actress nod at both the
British Independent Film Awards and Golden Globe Awards.[75]
Also in 2012,
Friend Request Pending, an indie short film which Dench had
filmed in 2011, received a wide release as part of the feature films
Stars in Shorts and The Joy of Six. In the 12-minute
comedy, directed by My Week with Marilyn assistant director Chris
Foggin on a budget of just £5,000, she portrays a pensioner grappling
with a crush on her church choirmaster and the art of cyber-flirting via
social networking.[76]
Dench made her seventh and final appearance as
M in the twenty-third
James Bond film,
Skyfall
(2012), directed by
Sam
Mendes.[77]
In the film, Bond investigates an attack on
MI6; it transpires that it is part of an attack on M by former MI6
operative, Raoul Silva (played by
Javier Bardem) to humiliate, discredit and kill M as revenge against
her for betraying him. Coincided with the 50th anniversary of the
James Bond series, Skyfall was positively received by critics
and at the box office, grossing over $1 Billion worldwide, and became
the
highest-grossing film of all-time in the UK and the highest-grossing
film in the James Bond series. Critics called Dench's
Saturn Awards-nominated performance "compellingly luminous".[78]
Public life
Dench was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970[79]
and
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1988.[80]
She was appointed a Companion of the
Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2005.[81]
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,[82]
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 (FRSA). 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,[83]
and Vice President of
The Little Foundation. Dench is an Honorary Fellow of
Lucy Cavendish College,
Cambridge. In 1996, she was awarded a
DUniv degree from
Surrey University[84]
and in 2000–2001 she received an honorary
DLitt degree from
Durham University.[85]
In July 2000, she was awarded a
DLitt degree 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 a honorary
DLitt degree at the university's graduation ceremony.[86]
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.[87][88]
On 22 July 2010, Dench was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of
Letters (DLitt) by
Nottingham Trent University.[89]
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.[90]
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.[91]
She is an advisor to the
American Shakespeare Center. She is a patron of the
Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children
across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres.[92]
She is patron of East Park Riding for the Disabled, a riding school for
disabled children at
Newchapel, Surrey.[93]
In 2011 along with musician
Sting and
entrepreneur
Richard Branson she publicly urged policy makers to adopt more
progressive drug policies by decriminalizing drug use.[94]
Filmography
Film and
television
Video games
Theatre work
Source: "Judi Dench: With a Crack in her Voice" by John Miller
As an actress
As a director
Discography
Awards and
nominations
Film
Television
Theatre
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