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Awarded an Oscar in 1999 for her eight-minute performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998), Dame Judi Dench has a long and impressive list of credits to her name.
Playing diverse roles such as Queen Victoria in the film Mrs. Brown (1997), the first female M in the Jame Bond films Golden Eye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002), Esme in the Tony award-winning Broadway production of Amy's View (1999), and Arabella in Tea with Mussolini (1999), Dame Judi is a dramatic tour de force.
Born in December 1934 in York, England, her first stage appearance was as a snail in a play at her Quaker junior school.
From this inauspicious start, Dench went on to win a clutch of awards for her work. On stage, she was first acclaimed in 1960 as the Juliet for her generation in the famous and controversial Zeffirelli production at London's famous Old Vic theatre. She made history in 1996 as the first person to win two Olivier awards for British theatre for different roles–Christine in Absolute Hell and Desiree in A Little Night Music.
Other film credits include: Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), The Shipping News (2001), and The Importance of Being Earnest (2002).
Dame Judi's current projects include The Chronicles of Riddick and Home on the Range. She returns in the role of M in the next James Bond movie scheduled for 2006.
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