Judi Dench - wikipedia Judi Dench Dame Judi Dench CH DBE FRSA Dench at the 60th British Academy Film Awards in 2007 Judith Olivia Dench ( 1934 - 12 - 09 ) 9 December 1934 ( age 82 ) Heworth, North Riding of Yorkshire, England Residence London and Surrey, England Nationality British Occupation Actress, artist, author Years active 1957 -- present Spouse ( s ) Michael Williams ( m. 1971 ; d. 2001 ) Children Finty Williams Relatives Jeffery Dench ( brother ) Emma Dench ( niece ) Rebekah Elmaloglou ( cousin ) Sebastian Elmaloglou ( cousin ) Dame Judith Olivia `` Judi '' Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA ( born 9 December 1934 ) is an English actress and author. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare 's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Although most of her work during this period was in theatre, she also branched into film work and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer. She drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968. Over the next two decades, Dench established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She achieved success in television during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984, and in 1992 with a starring role in the romantic comedy series As Time Goes By. Her film appearances were infrequent and included supporting roles in major films such as A Room with a View ( 1986 ) supporting Maggie Smith, before she rose to international fame as M in GoldenEye ( 1995 ), a role she continued to play in James Bond films until Skyfall ( 2012 ). A seven - time Oscar nominee, Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love and has received nominations for her roles in Mrs Brown ( 1997 ), Chocolat ( 2000 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ), Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ), and Philomena ( 2013 ). She has also received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television ; her competitive awards include six British Academy Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards, seven Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Tony Award. She has also received the BAFTA Fellowship ( 2001 ) and the Special Olivier Award ( 2004 ). In June 2011, she received a fellowship from the British Film Institute ( BFI ). Dench is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( FRSA ). Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early work 2.2 Prominence 2.3 Popular success 2.4 2001 -- 2005 2.5 2006 -- 2010 2.6 2011 -- 2014 2.7 2015 -- present 3 Personal life 3.1 Honours and charity 3.2 Political and social interests and involvement 4 Filmography 5 Discography 6 Awards and nominations 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Early life Dench was born in Heworth, North Riding of Yorkshire. Her mother, Eleanora Olive ( née Jones ), was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor, was born in Dorset, England, and later moved to Dublin, where he was raised. He met Dench 's mother while he was studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Dench attended The Mount School, a Quaker independent secondary school in York, and became a Quaker. Her brothers, one of whom was actor Jeffery Dench, were born in Tyldesley, Lancashire. Her niece, Emma Dench, is a Roman historian and professor previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University. 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 actor. Early work 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. Actors often stayed in the Dench household. During these years, Judi Dench 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. 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. She applied and was accepted by the School, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 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. 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. A history of Britain in the years 1957 - 1962, one volume in a series, cites a contemporaneous review of her performance : ``... has talent which will be shown to better advantage when she acquires some technique to go with it. '' Dench then made 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 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 The 1966 BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles was made to Dench for her performance in Four in the Morning and this was followed in 1968 by a BAFTA Television Best Actress Award for her role in John Hopkins ' 1966 BBC drama Talking to a Stranger. 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 ''. 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. '' Dench with Laurence Olivier, Joseph O'Conor, and John Neville at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mount Avala, Serbia in the early 1970s 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. '' 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 do n'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 JC 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. 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 10,000 th edition. 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 Emma Thompson 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 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. She has acted with the National Theatre in London where she played an unforgettable Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra ( 1987 ). 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 After the long period between James Bond films Licence to Kill ( 1989 ) and GoldenEye ( 1995 ), the producers brought in Dench to take over as the role of M, James Bond 's boss. The character was reportedly modeled on Dame Stella Rimington, the real - life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996, ; Dench became the first woman to portray M, succeeding Robert Brown. The seventeenth spy film in the series and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 officer, GoldenEye marked the first Bond film made after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, which provided the plot 's back story. The film earned a worldwide gross of US $350.7 million, with critics viewing the film as a modernisation of the series. In 1997, Dench appeared in her first starring film role as 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. Released to generally positive reviews and unexpected commercial success, going on to earn more than $13 million worldwide, the film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. 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. 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. '' Dench 's other film of 1997 was Roger Spottiswoode 's Tomorrow Never Dies, her second film in the James Bond series. The same year, Dench reteamed with director John Madden to film Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), a romantic comedy - drama that depicts a love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare, played by Joseph Fiennes, while he was writing the play Romeo and Juliet. On her performance as Queen Elizabeth I, The New York Times commented that `` Dench 's shrewd, daunting Elizabeth is one of the film 's utmost treats. '' The following year, she was nominated for most of the high - profile awards, winning both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. On her Oscar win, Dench joked on - stage, `` I feel for eight minutes on the screen I should only get a little bit of him. '' Also in 1999, Dench won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in Sir David Hare 's Amy 's View. The same year, she co-starred along with Cher, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, and Lily Tomlin in Franco Zeffirelli 's semi-autobiographical period drama Tea with Mussolini which tells the story of young Italian boy Luca 's upbringing by a circle of British and American women, before and during World War II. 1999 also saw the release of Pierce Brosnan 's third Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. This film portrayed M in a larger role with the main villain, Renard, coming back to haunt her when he engineers the murder of her old friend Sir Robert King and seemingly attempts to kill his daughter Electra. 2001 -- 2005 In January 2001, Dench 's husband Michael Williams died from lung cancer. Dench 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. '' 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. Each of them was nominated for an Academy Award the following year, earning Dench her fourth nomination within five years. In addition, she was awarded both an ALFS Award and the Best Leading Actress Award at the 55th British Academy Film Awards. Following Iris, Dench immediately returned to Canada to finish The Shipping News alongside Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore. Based on the Pulitzer Prize - winning novel by E. Annie Proulx, the drama revolves around 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, and was financially unsuccessful, taking in just US $24 million worldwide with a budget of US $35 million. Dench, however, received BAFTA and SAG Award nominations for her performance. In 2002, Dench was cast opposite Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Reese Witherspoon in Oliver Parker 's The Importance of Being Earnest, a comedy about mistaken identity set in English high society during the Victorian Era. Based on Oscar Wilde 's classic comedy of manners of the same name, she portrayed Lady Bracknell, a role she had repeatedly played before, including a stint at the Royal National Theatre in 1982. 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. 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. Regardless, it became the highest - grossing James Bond film up to that time. In the 2002 animated children 's series Angelina Ballerina, Dench lent her voice to Miss Lilly, Angelina 's ballet teacher. Her daughter, Finty Williams, provided the voice of Angelina herself. 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, she called filming `` tremendous fun '', although she `` had absolutely no idea what was going on in the plot. '' The film was a critical and box office failure. In his review of the film, James Berardinelli from ReelViews remarked that he felt that Dench 's character served no more `` useful purpose than to give ( her ) an opportunity to appear in a science fiction movie. '' She followed Riddick with a more traditional role in Charles Dance 's English drama Ladies in Lavender, also starring friend Maggie Smith. In the film, Dench plays one half of a sister duo and 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. '' 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 was mildly successful for Disney. A major hit for Dench came with Joe Wright 's Pride & Prejudice, a 2005 adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen, starring Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland. Wright persuaded 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. 2006 -- 2010 Dench, in her role as `` M '', 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. 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. Dench at the premiere of Notes on a Scandal in Berlin in 2007 Dench appeared opposite Cate Blanchett as a 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 Heller 's book, Dench `` was thrilled to be asked to... play that woman, to try to find a humanity in that dreadful person. '' The specialty film opened to generally positive reviews and commercial success, grossing US $50 million worldwide, exceeding its £ 15 million budget. 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. '' The following year, Dench earned her sixth Academy nomination and went on to win a BIFA Award and an Evening Standard Award. 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. 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. 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. The project gathered generally mixed reviews by critics, who mainly felt that Quantum of Solace was not as impressive as the predecessor Casino Royale, but became another hit for the franchise with a worldwide gross of US $591 million. For her performance, Dench was nominated for a Saturn Award the following year. Dench returned to the West End in mid-2009, playing Madame de Montreuil in Yukio Mishima 's play Madame de Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar season at Wyndham 's Theatre. 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. Attracted to the fact that it was unlike anything she had done before, Dench welcomed the opportunity to work with Potter. `` 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. Her next film was Rob Marshall 's musical film Nine, based on Arthur Kopit 's book for the 1982 musical of the same name, itself suggested by Federico Fellini 's semi-autobiographical film 81⁄2. 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, and awarded both the Satellite Award for Best Film and Best Cast. 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. 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. 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. 2011 -- 2014 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 role of Alice Fairfax, housekeeper to Rochester, the aloof and brooding master of Thornfield Hall, where main character Jane, played by Mia Wasikowska, gets employed as a governess. Dench reportedly signed 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. '' Acclaimed among critics, it was a mediocre arthouse success at the box office, grossing US $30.5 million worldwide. 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 actress Sybil Thorndike. The film garnered largely positive reviews, and earned Dench a Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination at the 65th BAFTA Awards. 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 a closeted homosexual. 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 did n't take it seriously to start with. And then I realised it was really him and that was a tricky conversation, '' she stated. Released to mixed reception, both with critics and commercially, the film went on to gross US $79 million worldwide. 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. She made a second cameo that year in Ray Cooney 's Run for Your Wife. Dench with Skyfall co-star Ben Whishaw at the Noël Coward Theatre in May 2013 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 ( Dev Patel ). Released to positive reviews by critics, who declared the film a `` sweet story about the senior set featuring a top - notch cast of veteran actors, '' it became a surprise box - office hit following its international release, eventually grossing $ US134 million worldwide, mostly from its domestic run. Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was ranked among the highest - grossing specialty releases of the year, and Dench, who Peter Travers from Rolling Stone called `` resilient marvel '', garnered a Best Actress nod at both the British Independent Film Awards and Golden Globe Awards. 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. Dench made her seventh and final appearance as M in the twenty - third James Bond film, Skyfall ( 2012 ), directed by Sam Mendes. 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. Dench 's position as M was subsequently filled by Ralph Fiennes ' character. Coinciding 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 ''. In 2013, Dench starred as the title character in the Stephen Frears directed film, Philomena, a film inspired by true events of a woman looking for the son which the Catholic Church took from her a half - century before. The film was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, where it was very favorably received by critics. On Dench 's performance, The Times commented that `` this is Dench 's triumph. At 78, she has a golden career behind her, often as queens and other frosty matriarchs. So the warmth under pressure she radiates here is nearly a surprise (... ) Dench gives a performance of grace, nuance and cinematic heroism. '' She was subsequently nominated for many major acting awards, including a seventh Academy Award nomination. 2015 -- present In 2015, Dench appeared opposite Dustin Hoffman in Dearbhla Walsh 's small screen adaptation of Roald Dahl 's children 's novel Esio Trot ( 1990 ), in which a retired bachelor falls in love with his widowed neighbour, played by Dench, who keeps a tortoise as a companion after the death of her husband, First broadcast on BBC One on New Year 's Day 2015, it became one of the most - watched programmes of the week, and earned Dench a her first Best Actress nomination at the 2016 International Emmy Awards. On her performance, Telegraph 's Michael Hogan commented : `` We 've grown accustomed to seeing Dench in forbidding roles but here she recalled her footloose, flirtatious side, displayed in sitcoms as A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By. The Dame was sparkly and downright ravishing. '' As with most of the original cast, Dench reprised the role of Evelyn in John Madden 's The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( 2015 ), the sequel to the 2011 sleeper hit. The comedy - drama was released to lukewarm reviews from critics, who found it `` as original as its title -- but with a cast this talented and effortlessly charming, that hardly matters. '' From April to May 2015, Dench played a mother, with her real - life daughter Finty Williams playing her character 's daughter, in The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse. The final performance was broadcast live on More4 at 8 : 25 pm ; the time when the events in the play take place. The appearance marked her first performance at the theatre since 1976. On 20 September 2015, she was the guest on BBC Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs for the third time, in which she revealed that her first acting performance was as a snail. She reprised her role as M in the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre, in the form of a recording that was delivered to Bond. In 2016, Dench made Olivier Award history when she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in The Winter 's Tale, breaking her own record with her eighth win as a performer. Next, she co-starred as Cecily Neville, Duchess of York to Benedict Cumberbatch 's Richard III in the second series of the BBC Two historical series The Hollow Crown. The same year, she was cast alongside Eva Green and Asa Butterfield in Tim Burton 's dark fantasy film Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children. Dench played Miss Esmeralda Avocet, a headmistress who can manipulate time and can transform into a bird. The film garnered mixed reviews from critics, who felt it was `` on stronger footing as a visual experience than a narrative one. '' Budgeted on US $110 million, it became a commercial hit, grossing nearly US $300 million worldwide. Dench appeared in several 2017 films. She co-starred in Justin Chadwick 's Tulip Fever, alongside Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz, and headlined Stephen Frears 's biographical drama Victoria & Abdul, reprising the role of Queen Victoria, opposite Ali Fazal as Abdul. In addition, she will play Princess Natalia Dragomiroff in Kenneth Branagh 's ensemble mystery film Murder on the Orient Express, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. Personal life On 5 February 1971, Dench married British actor Michael Williams. They had their only child, Tara Cressida Frances Williams, an actress known professionally as Finty Williams, on 24 September 1972. Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions and on the Bob Larbey British television sitcom, A Fine Romance ( 1981 -- 84 ). Michael Williams died from lung cancer in 2001, aged 65. They have one grandchild, Finty 's son Sam Williams ( born in 1997 ). Dench has been in a relationship with conservationist David Mills since 2010. During a 2014 interview with The Times magazine, she discussed how she never expected to find love again after her husband 's death, `` I was n't even prepared to be ready for it. It was very, very gradual and grown up... It 's just wonderful. '' 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. She also underwent knee surgery in 2013, but stated that she recovered from the procedure well and `` It 's not an issue for me. '' Dench has been critical of prejudice in the movie industry against older actresses. She stated in 2014, `` I 'm tired of being told I 'm too old to try something. I should be able to decide for myself if I ca n't do things and not have someone tell me I 'll forget my lines or I 'll trip and fall on the set '' ; and `` Age is a number. It 's something imposed on you... It drives me absolutely spare when people say, ' Are you going to retire ? Is n't it time you put your feet up ? ' Or tell me ( my ) age. '' In 2013, she spoke about her personal religious faith. Dench, a Quaker, said `` I think it informs everything I do... I could n't be without it ''. Honours and charity Dench was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in the 1970 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) in the 1988 New Year Honours. She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ( CH ) in the 2005 Birthday Honours. In June 2011, she became a fellow of the British Film Institute ( BFI ). Dench is a patron of the Leaveners, Friends School Saffron Walden, The Archway Theatre, Horley, Surrey and OnePlusOne Marriage and Partnership Research, London. She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir John Mills, and is president of 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, and Vice President of The Little Foundation. Dame Judi is also a long - standing and active Vice President of the national disabled people 's charity Revitalise. Dench is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In 1996, she was awarded a DUniv degree from Surrey University and in 2000 -- 2001, she received an honorary DLitt degree from Durham University. On 24 June 2008, she was honoured by the University of St Andrews, receiving an honorary DLitt degree at the university 's graduation ceremony. On 26 June 2013, she was honoured by the University of Stirling, receiving an honorary doctorate at the university 's graduation ceremony in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the Arts, particularly to film. In March 2013, Dench was listed as one of the fifty best - dressed over 50s by The Guardian. One of the highest - profile actresses in British popular culture, Dench appeared on Debrett 's 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK. 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 San of Botswana and the Arhuaco of Colombia. She made a small supporting video saying the San are victims of tyranny, greed and racism. Dench is also a patron of the Karuna Trust, a charity that supports work amongst some of India 's poorest and most oppressed people, mainly though not exclusively Dalits. On 22 July 2010, Dench was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters ( DLitt ) by Nottingham Trent University. The Dr. Hadwen Trust announced on 15 January 2011, that Dench had become a patron of the trust, joining, among others, Joanna Lumley and David Shepherd. 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. and it was revealed that Dench is an Everton supporter. Dench 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. She is also a patron of Shakespeare North, a playhouse project due to be completed in 2019 in the town of Prescot in Knowsley, near Liverpool. She is patron of East Park Riding for the Disabled, a riding school for disabled children at Newchapel, Surrey. Dench is also a Vice-President of national charity Revitalise, that provides accessible holidays for those with disabilities. In 2011, along with musician Sting and billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, she publicly urged policy makers to adopt more progressive drug policies by decriminalizing drug use. Dench was one of 200 celebrities to sign an open letter to the people of Scotland asking them to vote No to independence, published in August 2014, a few weeks before the Scottish referendum. Filmography Main article : Judi Dench filmography The Third Secret ( 1964 ) A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1968 ) A Room with a View ( 1985 ) Henry V ( 1989 ) GoldenEye ( 1995 ) Hamlet ( 1996 ) Tomorrow Never Dies ( 1997 ) Mrs Brown ( 1997 ) Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ) The World Is Not Enough ( 1999 ) Tea with Mussolini ( 1999 ) Chocolat ( 2000 ) The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2000 ) The Shipping News ( 2001 ) Iris ( 2001 ) Die Another Day ( 2002 ) Chronicles of Riddick ( 2004 ) Ladies in Lavender ( 2004 ) Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ) Pride & Prejudice ( 2005 ) Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ) Casino Royale ( 2006 ) Quantum of Solace ( 2008 ) Nine ( 2009 ) J. Edgar ( 2011 ) Jane Eyre ( 2011 ) My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) Skyfall ( 2012 ) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( 2012 ) Philomena ( 2013 ) Roald Dahl 's Esio Trot ( 2014 ) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( 2015 ) Spectre ( 2015 ) Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children ( 2016 ) Tulip Fever ( 2017 ) Victoria & Abdul ( 2017 ) Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017 ) Discography Pericles ( 1968 ) Shakespeare Recording Society, Caedmon Records Cabaret ( 1968 ), Original London cast album CBS ( 1973 ) The Good Companions ( 1974 ), Original London cast recording ( 1974 ) A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1995 ) ; from Felix Mendelssohn as Recitant. Conducted by Seiji Ozawa A Little Night Music ( 1995 ) by Stephen Sondheim, Royal National Theatre Cast Nine ( 2009 ) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Spaceship Earth ( Epcot ) narrator of the current version of the attraction. 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And Furthermore. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978 - 0 - 297 - 85967 - 3. Herbert, Ian ; Baxter, Christine ; Finlay, Robert E. ( 1981 ). Who 's Who in the Theatre ( 17th ed. ). Detroit : Gale. ISBN 0 - 273 - 01717 - 9. Miller, John, ed. ( 2004 ). Darling Judi : A Celebration of Judi Dench. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0 - 297 - 84791 - 0. Trowbridge, Simon ( 2010 ). The Company : A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oxford : Editions Albert Creed. ISBN 978 - 0 - 9559830 - 2 - 3. Dench, Judi ( 2014 ). Behind the Scenes. New York : St. Martin 's Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 250 - 07111 - 8. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Judi Dench. Wikiquote has quotations related to : Judi Dench Judi Dench on IMDb Judi Dench at the Internet Broadway Database Judi Dench at AllMovie Judi Dench at the TCM Movie Database Works by or about Judi Dench in libraries ( WorldCat catalog ) Judi Dench Biography As Time Goes By Central website Judi Dench on Acting Regal University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Bristol Dame Judi Dench at Emmys.com Judi Dench interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 17 April 1998 Judi Dench interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 15 September 2015 Awards for Judi Dench Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1936 -- 1950 Gale Sondergaard ( 1936 ) Alice Brady ( 1937 ) Fay Bainter ( 1938 ) Hattie McDaniel ( 1939 ) Jane Darwell ( 1940 ) Mary Astor ( 1941 ) Teresa Wright ( 1942 ) Katina Paxinou ( 1943 ) Ethel Barrymore ( 1944 ) Anne Revere ( 1945 ) Anne Baxter ( 1946 ) Celeste Holm ( 1947 ) Claire Trevor ( 1948 ) Mercedes McCambridge ( 1949 ) Josephine Hull ( 1950 ) 1951 -- 1975 Kim Hunter ( 1951 ) Gloria Grahame ( 1952 ) Donna Reed ( 1953 ) Eva Marie Saint ( 1954 ) Jo Van Fleet ( 1955 ) Dorothy Malone ( 1956 ) Miyoshi Umeki ( 1957 ) Wendy Hiller ( 1958 ) Shelley Winters ( 1959 ) Shirley Jones ( 1960 ) Rita Moreno ( 1961 ) Patty Duke ( 1962 ) Margaret Rutherford ( 1963 ) Lila Kedrova ( 1964 ) Shelley Winters ( 1965 ) Sandy Dennis ( 1966 ) Estelle Parsons ( 1967 ) Ruth Gordon ( 1968 ) Goldie Hawn ( 1969 ) Helen Hayes ( 1970 ) Cloris Leachman ( 1971 ) Eileen Heckart ( 1972 ) Tatum O'Neal ( 1973 ) Ingrid Bergman ( 1974 ) Lee Grant ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 Beatrice Straight ( 1976 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 1977 ) Maggie Smith ( 1978 ) Meryl Streep ( 1979 ) Mary Steenburgen ( 1980 ) Maureen Stapleton ( 1981 ) Jessica Lange ( 1982 ) Linda Hunt ( 1983 ) Peggy Ashcroft ( 1984 ) Anjelica Huston ( 1985 ) Dianne Wiest ( 1986 ) Olympia Dukakis ( 1987 ) Geena Davis ( 1988 ) Brenda Fricker ( 1989 ) Whoopi Goldberg ( 1990 ) Mercedes Ruehl ( 1991 ) Marisa Tomei ( 1992 ) Anna Paquin ( 1993 ) Dianne Wiest ( 1994 ) Mira Sorvino ( 1995 ) Juliette Binoche ( 1996 ) Kim Basinger ( 1997 ) Judi Dench ( 1998 ) Angelina Jolie ( 1999 ) Marcia Gay Harden ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Jennifer Connelly ( 2001 ) Catherine Zeta - Jones ( 2002 ) Renée Zellweger ( 2003 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2004 ) Rachel Weisz ( 2005 ) Jennifer Hudson ( 2006 ) Tilda Swinton ( 2007 ) Penélope Cruz ( 2008 ) Mo'Nique ( 2009 ) Melissa Leo ( 2010 ) Octavia Spencer ( 2011 ) Anne Hathaway ( 2012 ) Lupita Nyong'o ( 2013 ) Patricia Arquette ( 2014 ) Alicia Vikander ( 2015 ) Viola Davis ( 2016 ) BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1952 -- 1967 Vivien Leigh British, Simone Signoret Foreign ( 1952 ) Audrey Hepburn British, Leslie Caron Foreign ( 1953 ) Yvonne Mitchell British, Cornell Borchers Foreign ( 1954 ) Katie Johnson British, Betsy Blair Foreign ( 1955 ) Virginia McKenna British, Anna Magnani Foreign ( 1956 ) Heather Sears British, Simone Signoret Foreign ( 1957 ) Irene Worth British, Simone Signoret Foreign ( 1958 ) Audrey Hepburn British, Shirley MacLaine Foreign ( 1959 ) Rachel Roberts British, Shirley MacLaine Foreign ( 1960 ) Dora Bryan British, Sophia Loren Foreign ( 1961 ) Leslie Caron British, Anne Bancroft Foreign ( 1962 ) Rachel Roberts British, Patricia Neal Foreign ( 1963 ) Audrey Hepburn British, Anne Bancroft Foreign ( 1964 ) Julie Christie British, Patricia Neal Foreign ( 1965 ) Elizabeth Taylor British, Jeanne Moreau Foreign ( 1966 ) Edith Evans British, Anouk Aimée Foreign ( 1967 ) 1968 -- present Katharine Hepburn ( 1968 ) Maggie Smith ( 1969 ) Katharine Ross ( 1970 ) Glenda Jackson ( 1971 ) Liza Minnelli ( 1972 ) Stéphane Audran ( 1973 ) Joanne Woodward ( 1974 ) Ellen Burstyn ( 1975 ) Louise Fletcher ( 1976 ) Diane Keaton ( 1977 ) Jane Fonda ( 1978 ) Jane Fonda ( 1979 ) Judy Davis ( 1980 ) Meryl Streep ( 1981 ) Katharine Hepburn ( 1982 ) Julie Walters ( 1983 ) Maggie Smith ( 1984 ) Peggy Ashcroft ( 1985 ) Maggie Smith ( 1986 ) Anne Bancroft ( 1987 ) Maggie Smith ( 1988 ) Pauline Collins ( 1989 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1990 ) Jodie Foster ( 1991 ) Emma Thompson ( 1992 ) Holly Hunter ( 1993 ) Susan Sarandon ( 1994 ) Emma Thompson ( 1995 ) Brenda Blethyn ( 1996 ) Judi Dench ( 1997 ) Cate Blanchett ( 1998 ) Annette Bening ( 1999 ) Julia Roberts ( 2000 ) Judi Dench ( 2001 ) Nicole Kidman ( 2002 ) Scarlett Johansson ( 2003 ) Imelda Staunton ( 2004 ) Reese Witherspoon ( 2005 ) Helen Mirren ( 2006 ) Marion Cotillard ( 2007 ) Kate Winslet ( 2008 ) Carey Mulligan ( 2009 ) Natalie Portman ( 2010 ) Meryl Streep ( 2011 ) Emmanuelle Riva ( 2012 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2013 ) Julianne Moore ( 2014 ) Brie Larson ( 2015 ) Emma Stone ( 2016 ) BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 1968 -- 1984 Billie Whitelaw ( 1968 ) Celia Johnson ( 1969 ) Susannah York ( 1970 ) Margaret Leighton ( 1971 ) Cloris Leachman ( 1972 ) Valentina Cortese ( 1973 ) Ingrid Bergman ( 1974 ) Diane Ladd ( 1975 ) Jodie Foster ( 1976 ) Jenny Agutter ( 1977 ) Geraldine Page ( 1978 ) Rachel Roberts ( 1979 ) Rohini Hattangadi / Maureen Stapleton ( 1982 ) Jamie Lee Curtis ( 1983 ) Liz Smith ( 1984 ) 1985 -- 2009 Rosanna Arquette ( 1985 ) Judi Dench ( 1986 ) Susan Wooldridge ( 1987 ) Judi Dench ( 1988 ) Michelle Pfeiffer ( 1989 ) Whoopi Goldberg ( 1990 ) Kate Nelligan ( 1991 ) Miranda Richardson ( 1992 ) Miriam Margolyes ( 1993 ) Kristin Scott Thomas ( 1994 ) Kate Winslet ( 1995 ) Juliette Binoche ( 1996 ) Sigourney Weaver ( 1997 ) Judi Dench ( 1998 ) Maggie Smith ( 1999 ) Julie Walters ( 2000 ) Jennifer Connelly ( 2001 ) Catherine Zeta - Jones ( 2002 ) Renée Zellweger ( 2003 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2004 ) Thandie Newton ( 2005 ) Jennifer Hudson ( 2006 ) Tilda Swinton ( 2007 ) Penélope Cruz ( 2008 ) Mo'Nique ( 2009 ) 2010 -- present Helena Bonham Carter ( 2010 ) Octavia Spencer ( 2011 ) Anne Hathaway ( 2012 ) Jennifer Lawrence ( 2013 ) Patricia Arquette ( 2014 ) Kate Winslet ( 2015 ) Viola Davis ( 2016 ) BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Most Promising Newcomer to Film Claire Bloom ( 1952 ) Norman Wisdom ( 1953 ) David Kossoff ( 1954 ) Paul Scofield ( 1955 ) Eli Wallach ( 1956 ) Eric Barker ( 1957 ) Paul Massie ( 1958 ) Hayley Mills ( 1959 ) Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Albert Finney ( 1960 ) Rita Tushingham ( 1961 ) Tom Courtenay ( 1962 ) James Fox ( 1963 ) Julie Andrews ( 1964 ) Judi Dench ( 1965 ) Vivien Merchant ( 1966 ) Faye Dunaway ( 1967 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1968 ) Jon Voight ( 1969 ) David Bradley ( 1970 ) Dominic Guard ( 1971 ) Joel Grey ( 1972 ) Peter Egan ( 1973 ) Georgina Hale ( 1974 ) Valerie Perrine ( 1975 ) Jodie Foster ( 1976 ) Isabelle Huppert ( 1977 ) Christopher Reeve ( 1978 ) Dennis Christopher ( 1979 ) Most Outstanding Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Judy Davis ( 1980 ) Joe Pesci ( 1981 ) Ben Kingsley ( 1982 ) Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film Phyllis Logan ( 1983 ) Haing S. Ngor ( 1984 ) BAFTA Fellowship recipients 1971 -- 2000 Alfred Hitchcock ( 1971 ) Freddie Young ( 1972 ) Grace Wyndham Goldie ( 1973 ) David Lean ( 1974 ) Jacques Cousteau ( 1975 ) Charlie Chaplin ( 1976 ) Laurence Olivier ( 1976 ) Denis Forman ( 1977 ) Fred Zinnemann ( 1978 ) Lew Grade ( 1979 ) Huw Wheldon ( 1979 ) David Attenborough ( 1980 ) John Huston ( 1980 ) Abel Gance ( 1981 ) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger ( 1981 ) Andrzej Wajda ( 1982 ) Richard Attenborough ( 1983 ) Hugh Greene ( 1984 ) Sam Spiegel ( 1984 ) Jeremy Isaacs ( 1985 ) Steven Spielberg ( 1986 ) Federico Fellini ( 1987 ) Ingmar Bergman ( 1988 ) Alec Guinness ( 1989 ) Paul Fox ( 1990 ) Louis Malle ( 1991 ) John Gielgud ( 1992 ) David Plowright ( 1992 ) Sydney Samuelson ( 1993 ) Colin Young ( 1993 ) Michael Grade ( 1994 ) Billy Wilder ( 1995 ) Jeanne Moreau ( 1996 ) Ronald Neame ( 1996 ) John Schlesinger ( 1996 ) Maggie Smith ( 1996 ) Woody Allen ( 1997 ) Steven Bochco ( 1997 ) Julie Christie ( 1997 ) Oswald Morris ( 1997 ) Harold Pinter ( 1997 ) David Rose ( 1997 ) Sean Connery ( 1998 ) Bill Cotton ( 1998 ) Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise ( 1999 ) Elizabeth Taylor ( 1999 ) Michael Caine ( 2000 ) Stanley Kubrick ( 2000 ) Peter Bazalgette ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Albert Finney ( 2001 ) John Thaw ( 2001 ) Judi Dench ( 2001 ) Warren Beatty ( 2002 ) Merchant Ivory Productions ( 2002 ) Andrew Davies ( 2002 ) John Mills ( 2002 ) Saul Zaentz ( 2003 ) David Jason ( 2003 ) John Boorman ( 2004 ) Roger Graef ( 2004 ) John Barry ( 2005 ) David Frost ( 2005 ) David Puttnam ( 2006 ) Ken Loach ( 2006 ) Anne V. Coates ( 2007 ) Richard Curtis ( 2007 ) Will Wright ( 2007 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 2008 ) Bruce Forsyth ( 2008 ) Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders ( 2009 ) Terry Gilliam ( 2009 ) Nolan Bushnell ( 2009 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 2010 ) Shigeru Miyamoto ( 2010 ) Melvyn Bragg ( 2010 ) Christopher Lee ( 2011 ) Peter Molyneux ( 2011 ) Trevor McDonald ( 2011 ) Martin Scorsese ( 2012 ) Rolf Harris ( 2012 ) Alan Parker ( 2013 ) Gabe Newell ( 2013 ) Michael Palin ( 2013 ) Helen Mirren ( 2014 ) Rockstar Games ( 2014 ) Julie Walters ( 2014 ) Mike Leigh ( 2015 ) David Braben ( 2015 ) Jon Snow ( 2015 ) Sidney Poitier ( 2016 ) John Carmack ( 2016 ) Ray Galton & Alan Simpson ( 2016 ) Mel Brooks ( 2017 ) Joanna Lumley ( 2017 ) BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards Excellence in Film Albert R. Broccoli ( 1989 ) Michael Caine ( 1990 ) Peter Ustinov ( 1992 ) Martin Scorsese ( 1993 ) Anthony Hopkins ( 1995 ) Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein ( 1996 ) Dustin Hoffman ( 1997 ) John Travolta ( 1998 ) Stanley Kubrick ( 1999 ) Steven Spielberg ( 2000 ) George Lucas ( 2002 ) Hugh Grant ( 2003 ) Tom Hanks ( 2004 ) Tom Cruise ( 2005 ) Clint Eastwood ( 2006 ) Denzel Washington ( 2007 ) Sean Penn ( 2008 ) Robert De Niro ( 2009 ) Jeff Bridges ( 2010 ) Warren Beatty ( 2011 ) Daniel Day - Lewis ( 2012 ) George Clooney ( 2013 ) Robert Downey Jr. ( 2014 ) Meryl Streep ( 2015 ) Jodie Foster ( 2016 ) Matt Damon ( 2017 ) Excellence in Directing Peter Weir ( 2003 ) Jim Sheridan ( 2004 ) Mike Newell ( 2005 ) Anthony Minghella ( 2006 ) Martin Campbell ( 2007 ) Stephen Frears ( 2008 ) Danny Boyle ( 2009 ) Christopher Nolan ( 2010 ) David Yates ( 2011 ) Quentin Tarantino ( 2012 ) Kathryn Bigelow ( 2013 ) Mike Leigh ( 2014 ) Sam Mendes ( 2015 ) Ang Lee ( 2016 ) Ava DuVernay ( 2017 ) Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment Howard Stringer ( 2003 ) Kirk Douglas ( 2009 ) Ridley Scott & Tony Scott ( 2010 ) John Lasseter ( 2011 ) Will Wright ( 2012 ) Ben Kingsley ( 2013 ) Judi Dench ( 2014 ) Harrison Ford ( 2015 ) Samuel L. Jackson ( 2016 ) Kenneth Branagh ( 2017 ) British Artist of the Year Rachel Weisz ( 2006 ) Kate Winslet ( 2007 ) Tilda Swinton ( 2008 ) Emily Blunt ( 2009 ) Michael Sheen ( 2010 ) Helena Bonham Carter ( 2011 ) Daniel Craig ( 2012 ) Benedict Cumberbatch ( 2013 ) Emma Watson ( 2014 ) James Corden ( 2015 ) Felicity Jones ( 2016 ) Claire Foy ( 2017 ) Excellence in Comedy Betty White ( 2010 ) Ben Stiller ( 2011 ) Trey Parker and Matt Stone ( 2012 ) Sacha Baron Cohen ( 2013 ) Julia Louis - Dreyfus ( 2014 ) Amy Schumer ( 2015 ) Ricky Gervais ( 2016 ) Aziz Ansari ( 2017 ) Excellence in Television Aaron Spelling ( 1999 ) HBO Original Programming ( 2002 ) Dick Van Dyke ( 2017 ) Humanitarian Award Richard Curtis ( 2007 ) Don Cheadle ( 2008 ) Colin Firth ( 2009 ) Idris Elba ( 2013 ) Mark Ruffalo ( 2014 ) Orlando Bloom ( 2015 ) Ewan McGregor ( 2016 ) Retired Awards BBC ( 1999 ) Tarsem Singh ( 1999 ) Angela Lansbury ( 2003 ) Helen Mirren ( 2004 ) Elizabeth Taylor ( 2005 ) Ronald Neame ( 2005 ) Sidney Poitier ( 2006 ) Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne ( 2007 ) BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress 1952 -- 1959 Googie Withers ( 1955 ) Virginia McKenna ( 1956 ) Rosalie Crutchley ( 1957 ) Gwen Watford ( 1959 ) 1960 -- 1979 Catherine Lacey ( 1960 ) Billie Whitelaw ( 1961 ) Ruth Dunning ( 1962 ) Brenda Bruce ( 1963 ) Vivien Merchant ( 1964 ) Katharine Blake ( 1965 ) Gwen Watford ( 1966 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 1967 ) Judi Dench ( 1968 ) Wendy Craig ( 1969 ) Margaret Tyzack ( 1970 ) Annette Crosbie ( 1971 ) Patricia Hayes ( 1972 ) Billie Whitelaw ( 1973 ) Celia Johnson ( 1974 ) Lee Remick ( 1975 ) Annette Crosbie ( 1976 ) Siân Phillips ( 1977 ) Penelope Keith ( 1978 ) Francesca Annis ( 1979 ) 1980 -- 1999 Cheryl Campbell ( 1980 ) Peggy Ashcroft ( 1981 ) Judi Dench ( 1982 ) Beryl Reid ( 1983 ) Coral Browne ( 1984 ) Peggy Ashcroft ( 1985 ) Claire Bloom ( 1986 ) Anna Massey ( 1987 ) Emma Thompson ( 1988 ) Thora Hird ( 1989 ) Diana Rigg ( 1990 ) Geraldine McEwan ( 1991 ) Helen Mirren ( 1992 ) Helen Mirren ( 1993 ) Helen Mirren ( 1994 ) Juliet Aubrey ( 1995 ) Jennifer Ehle ( 1996 ) Gina McKee ( 1997 ) Daniela Nardini ( 1998 ) Thora Hird ( 1999 ) 2000 -- 2019 Thora Hird ( 2000 ) Judi Dench ( 2001 ) Julie Walters ( 2002 ) Julie Walters ( 2003 ) Julie Walters ( 2004 ) Anamaria Marinca ( 2005 ) Anna Maxwell Martin ( 2006 ) Victoria Wood ( 2007 ) Eileen Atkins ( 2008 ) Anna Maxwell Martin ( 2009 ) Julie Walters ( 2010 ) Vicky McClure ( 2011 ) Emily Watson ( 2012 ) Sheridan Smith ( 2013 ) Olivia Colman ( 2014 ) Georgina Campbell ( 2015 ) Suranne Jones ( 2016 ) Sarah Lancashire ( 2017 ) BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance 1970 -- 1989 Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise ( 1970 ) Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise ( 1971 ) Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett ( 1972 ) Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise ( 1973 ) Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise ( 1974 ) Stanley Baxter ( 1975 ) Ronnie Barker ( 1976 ) Penelope Keith ( 1977 ) Ronnie Barker ( 1978 ) Ronnie Barker ( 1979 ) John Cleese ( 1980 ) Rowan Atkinson ( 1981 ) Nigel Hawthorne ( 1982 ) Nigel Hawthorne ( 1983 ) Tracey Ullman ( 1984 ) Judi Dench ( 1985 ) Victoria Wood ( 1986 ) Nigel Hawthorne ( 1987 ) Nigel Hawthorne ( 1988 ) Victoria Wood ( 1989 ) 1990 -- 2009 Rowan Atkinson ( 1990 ) David Jason ( 1991 ) Richard Wilson ( 1992 ) Joanna Lumley ( 1993 ) Richard Wilson ( 1994 ) Rory Bremner ( 1995 ) Rory Bremner ( 1996 ) John Bird & John Fortune ( 1997 ) Paul Whitehouse ( 1998 ) Michael Parkinson ( 1999 ) Graham Norton ( 2000 ) Graham Norton ( 2001 ) Graham Norton ( 2002 ) Paul Merton ( 2003 ) Jonathan Ross ( 2004 ) Paul O'Grady ( 2005 ) Jonathan Ross ( 2006 ) Jonathan Ross ( 2007 ) Harry Hill ( 2008 ) Harry Hill ( 2009 ) 2010 -- 2029 Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly ( 2010 ) Graham Norton ( 2011 ) Graham Norton ( 2012 ) Alan Carr ( 2013 ) Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly ( 2014 ) Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly ( 2015 ) Leigh Francis ( 2016 ) Michael McIntyre ( 2017 ) BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film Kathy Burke ( 1998 ) Emily Watson ( 1999 ) Gillian Anderson ( 2000 ) Kate Ashfield ( 2001 ) Samantha Morton ( 2002 ) Olivia Williams ( 2003 ) Imelda Staunton ( 2004 ) Rachel Weisz ( 2005 ) Kate Dickie ( 2006 ) Judi Dench ( 2007 ) Vera Farmiga ( 2008 ) Carey Mulligan ( 2009 ) Carey Mulligan ( 2010 ) Olivia Colman ( 2011 ) Andrea Riseborough ( 2012 ) Lindsay Duncan ( 2013 ) Gugu Mbatha - Raw ( 2014 ) Saoirse Ronan ( 2015 ) Sasha Lane ( 2016 ) European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Ingmar Bergman ( 1988 ) Marcello Mastroianni ( 1988 ) Federico Fellini ( 1989 ) Andrzej Wajda ( 1990 ) Alexandre Trauner ( 1991 ) Billy Wilder ( 1992 ) Michelangelo Antonioni ( 1993 ) Robert Bresson ( 1994 ) Marcel Carné ( 1995 ) Alec Guinness ( 1996 ) Jeanne Moreau ( 1997 ) Ennio Morricone ( 1999 ) Richard Harris ( 2000 ) Monty Python ( 2001 ) Tonino Guerra ( 2002 ) Claude Chabrol ( 2003 ) Carlos Saura ( 2004 ) Sean Connery ( 2005 ) Roman Polanski ( 2006 ) Jean - Luc Godard ( 2007 ) Judi Dench ( 2008 ) Ken Loach ( 2009 ) Bruno Ganz ( 2010 ) Stephen Frears ( 2011 ) Bernardo Bertolucci ( 2012 ) Catherine Deneuve ( 2013 ) Agnès Varda ( 2014 ) Charlotte Rampling ( 2015 ) Jean - Claude Carrière ( 2016 ) Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama 1943 -- 1975 Jennifer Jones ( 1943 ) Ingrid Bergman ( 1944 ) Ingrid Bergman ( 1945 ) Rosalind Russell ( 1946 ) Rosalind Russell ( 1947 ) Jane Wyman ( 1948 ) Olivia de Havilland ( 1949 ) Gloria Swanson ( 1950 ) Jane Wyman ( 1951 ) Shirley Booth ( 1952 ) Audrey Hepburn ( 1953 ) Grace Kelly ( 1954 ) Anna Magnani ( 1955 ) Ingrid Bergman ( 1956 ) Joanne Woodward ( 1957 ) Susan Hayward ( 1958 ) Elizabeth Taylor ( 1959 ) Greer Garson ( 1960 ) Geraldine Page ( 1961 ) Geraldine Page ( 1962 ) Leslie Caron ( 1963 ) Anne Bancroft ( 1964 ) Samantha Eggar ( 1965 ) Anouk Aimée ( 1966 ) Edith Evans ( 1967 ) Joanne Woodward ( 1968 ) Geneviève Bujold ( 1969 ) Ali MacGraw ( 1970 ) Jane Fonda ( 1971 ) Liv Ullmann ( 1972 ) Marsha Mason ( 1973 ) Gena Rowlands ( 1974 ) Louise Fletcher ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 Faye Dunaway ( 1976 ) Jane Fonda ( 1977 ) Jane Fonda ( 1978 ) Sally Field ( 1979 ) Mary Tyler Moore ( 1980 ) Meryl Streep ( 1981 ) Meryl Streep ( 1982 ) Shirley MacLaine ( 1983 ) Sally Field ( 1984 ) Whoopi Goldberg ( 1985 ) Marlee Matlin ( 1986 ) Sally Kirkland ( 1987 ) Jodie Foster / Shirley MacLaine / Sigourney Weaver ( 1988 ) Michelle Pfeiffer ( 1989 ) Kathy Bates ( 1990 ) Jodie Foster ( 1991 ) Emma Thompson ( 1992 ) Holly Hunter ( 1993 ) Jessica Lange ( 1994 ) Sharon Stone ( 1995 ) Brenda Blethyn ( 1996 ) Judi Dench ( 1997 ) Cate Blanchett ( 1998 ) Hilary Swank ( 1999 ) Julia Roberts ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Sissy Spacek ( 2001 ) Nicole Kidman ( 2002 ) Charlize Theron ( 2003 ) Hilary Swank ( 2004 ) Felicity Huffman ( 2005 ) Helen Mirren ( 2006 ) Julie Christie ( 2007 ) Kate Winslet ( 2008 ) Sandra Bullock ( 2009 ) Natalie Portman ( 2010 ) Meryl Streep ( 2011 ) Jessica Chastain ( 2012 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2013 ) Julianne Moore ( 2014 ) Brie Larson ( 2015 ) Isabelle Huppert ( 2016 ) Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Miniseries or Television Film Jane Seymour ( 1981 ) Ingrid Bergman ( 1982 ) Ann - Margret ( 1983 ) Ann - Margret ( 1984 ) Liza Minnelli ( 1985 ) Loretta Young ( 1986 ) Gena Rowlands ( 1987 ) Ann Jillian ( 1988 ) Christine Lahti ( 1989 ) Barbara Hershey ( 1990 ) Judy Davis ( 1991 ) Laura Dern ( 1992 ) Bette Midler ( 1993 ) Joanne Woodward ( 1994 ) Jessica Lange ( 1995 ) Helen Mirren ( 1996 ) Alfre Woodard ( 1997 ) Angelina Jolie ( 1998 ) Halle Berry ( 1999 ) Judi Dench ( 2000 ) Judy Davis ( 2001 ) Uma Thurman ( 2002 ) Meryl Streep ( 2003 ) Glenn Close ( 2004 ) S. Epatha Merkerson ( 2005 ) Helen Mirren ( 2006 ) Queen Latifah ( 2007 ) Laura Linney ( 2008 ) Drew Barrymore ( 2009 ) Claire Danes ( 2010 ) Kate Winslet ( 2011 ) Julianne Moore ( 2012 ) Elisabeth Moss ( 2013 ) Maggie Gyllenhaal ( 2014 ) Lady Gaga ( 2015 ) Sarah Paulson ( 2016 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play Peggy Ashcroft ( 1976 ) Alison Fiske ( 1977 ) Joan Plowright ( 1978 ) Jane Lapotaire ( 1979 ) Frances de la Tour ( 1980 ) Elizabeth Quinn ( 1981 ) Rosemary Leach ( 1982 ) Judi Dench ( 1983 ) Thuli Dumakude ( 1984 ) Pauline Collins ( 1988 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival Dorothy Tutin ( 1976 ) Judi Dench ( 1977 ) Dorothy Tutin ( 1978 ) Zoë Wanamaker ( 1979 ) Judi Dench ( 1980 ) Margaret Tyzack ( 1981 ) Cheryl Campbell ( 1982 ) Frances de la Tour ( 1983 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 1984 ) Harriet Walter ( 1988 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress Yvonne Bryceland ( 1985 ) Lindsay Duncan ( 1986 ) Judi Dench ( 1987 ) Fiona Shaw ( 1989 / 1990 ) Kathryn Hunter ( 1991 ) Juliet Stevenson ( 1992 ) Alison Steadman ( 1993 ) Fiona Shaw ( 1994 ) Clare Higgins ( 1995 ) Judi Dench ( 1996 ) Janet McTeer ( 1997 ) Zoë Wanamaker ( 1998 ) Eileen Atkins ( 1999 ) Janie Dee ( 2000 ) Julie Walters ( 2001 ) Lindsay Duncan ( 2002 ) Clare Higgins ( 2003 ) Eileen Atkins ( 2004 ) Clare Higgins ( 2005 ) Eve Best ( 2006 ) Tamsin Greig ( 2007 ) Kristin Scott Thomas ( 2008 ) Margaret Tyzack ( 2009 ) Rachel Weisz ( 2010 ) Nancy Carroll ( 2011 ) Ruth Wilson ( 2012 ) Helen Mirren ( 2013 ) Lesley Manville ( 2014 ) Penelope Wilton ( 2015 ) Denise Gough ( 2016 ) Billie Piper ( 2017 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical Virginia McKenna ( 1979 ) Gemma Craven ( 1980 ) Carlin Glynn ( 1981 ) Julia McKenzie ( 1982 ) Barbara Dickson ( 1983 ) Natalia Makarova ( 1984 ) Patti LuPone ( 1985 ) Lesley Mackie ( 1986 ) Nichola McAuliffe ( 1987 ) Patricia Routledge ( 1988 ) Lea Salonga ( 1989 / 1990 ) Imelda Staunton ( 1991 ) Wilhelmenia Fernandez ( 1992 ) Joanna Riding ( 1993 ) Julia McKenzie ( 1994 ) Ruthie Henshall ( 1995 ) Judi Dench ( 1996 ) Maria Friedman ( 1997 ) Ute Lemper ( 1998 ) Sophie Thompson ( 1999 ) Barbara Dickson ( 2000 ) Samantha Spiro ( 2001 ) Martine McCutcheon ( 2002 ) Joanna Riding ( 2003 ) Maria Friedman ( 2004 ) Laura Michelle Kelly ( 2005 ) Jane Krakowski ( 2006 ) Jenna Russell ( 2007 ) Leanne Jones ( 2008 ) Elena Roger ( 2009 ) Samantha Spiro ( 2010 ) Sheridan Smith ( 2011 ) Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Sophia Kiely, and Eleanor Worthington Cox ( 2012 ) Imelda Staunton ( 2013 ) Zrinka Cvitešić ( 2014 ) Katie Brayben ( 2015 ) Imelda Staunton ( 2016 ) Amber Riley ( 2017 ) Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role 1977 -- 1984 Actor Nigel Hawthorne ( 1977 ) Robert Eddison ( 1978 ) Patrick Stewart ( 1979 ) David Threlfall ( 1980 ) Joe Melia ( 1981 ) David Healy ( 1982 ) Alan Devlin ( 1983 ) Edward Petherbridge ( 1984 ) Actress Mona Washbourne ( 1977 ) Elizabeth Spriggs ( 1978 ) Doreen Mantle ( 1979 ) Suzanne Bertish ( 1980 ) Gwen Watford ( 1981 ) Anna Massey ( 1982 ) Abigail McKern ( 1983 ) Marcia Warren ( 1984 ) 1985 -- 1990 Merged Imelda Staunton ( 1985 ) Paul Jesson ( 1986 ) Michael Bryant ( 1987 ) Eileen Atkins ( 1988 ) Michael Bryant ( 1989 / 1990 ) 1991 -- 1995 Actor David Bradley ( 1991 ) Oleg Menshikov ( 1992 ) Julian Glover ( 1993 ) Joseph Mydell ( 1994 ) Ken Stott ( 1995 ) Actress Sara Crowe ( 1991 ) Frances de la Tour ( 1992 ) Barbara Leigh - Hunt ( 1993 ) Helen Burns ( 1994 ) Dora Bryan ( 1995 ) 1996 -- 2002 Actor Trevor Eve ( 1997 ) Roger Allam ( 2000 ) Ben Daniels ( 2001 ) Toby Jones ( 2002 ) Actress Deborah Findlay ( 1997 ) Patricia Hodge ( 2000 ) Essie Davis ( 2001 ) Marcia Warren ( 2002 ) Merged Simon Russell Beale ( 1996 ) Sarah Woodward ( 1998 ) Brendan Coyle ( 1999 ) 2003 -- 2009 Merged Essie Davis ( 2003 ) Warren Mitchell ( 2004 ) Amanda Harris ( 2005 ) Noma Dumezweni ( 2006 ) Jim Norton ( 2007 ) Rory Kinnear ( 2008 ) Patrick Stewart ( 2009 ) 2010 -- present Actor Eddie Redmayne ( 2010 ) Adrian Scarborough ( 2011 ) Richard McCabe ( 2013 ) Jack Lowden ( 2014 ) Nathaniel Parker ( 2015 ) Mark Gatiss ( 2016 ) Anthony Boyle ( 2017 ) Actress Ruth Wilson ( 2010 ) Michelle Terry ( 2011 ) Nicola Walker ( 2013 ) Sharon D. Clarke ( 2014 ) Angela Lansbury ( 2015 ) Judi Dench ( 2016 ) Noma Dumezweni ( 2017 ) Merged Sheridan Smith ( 2012 ) Society of London Theatre Special Award Laurence Olivier ( 1979 ) Ralph Richardson ( 1980 ) Charles Wintour ( 1982 ) Joan Littlewood ( 1983 ) John Gielgud ( 1985 ) Alec Guinness ( 1988 ) Peggy Ashcroft ( 1991 ) Ninette de Valois ( 1992 ) Kenneth MacMillan ( 1993 ) Sam Wanamaker ( 1994 ) Harold Pinter ( 1996 ) Margaret Harris ( 1997 ) Ed Mirvish / David Mirvish ( 1998 ) Peter Hall ( 1999 ) Rupert Rhymes ( 2002 ) Sam Mendes ( 2003 ) Judi Dench ( 2004 ) Alan Bennett ( 2005 ) Ian McKellen ( 2006 ) John Tomlinson ( 2007 ) Andrew Lloyd Webber ( 2008 ) Alan Ayckbourn ( 2009 ) Maggie Smith ( 2010 ) Stephen Sondheim ( 2011 ) Monica Mason / Tim Rice ( 2012 ) Michael Frayn / Gillian Lynne ( 2013 ) Nicholas Hytner & Nick Starr / Michael White ( 2014 ) Sylvie Guillem / Kevin Spacey ( 2015 ) Kenneth Branagh ( 2017 ) London Film Critics ' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year Miranda Richardson ( 1993 ) Crissy Rock ( 1994 ) Kate Winslet ( 1995 ) Brenda Blethyn ( 1996 ) Judi Dench ( 1997 ) Helena Bonham Carter ( 1998 ) Emily Watson ( 1999 ) Julie Walters ( 2000 ) Judi Dench ( 2001 ) Lesley Manville ( 2002 ) Anne Reid ( 2003 ) Eva Birthistle / Kate Winslet ( 2004 ) Rachel Weisz ( 2005 ) Helen Mirren ( 2006 ) Julie Christie ( 2007 ) Kristin Scott Thomas ( 2008 ) Carey Mulligan ( 2009 ) Lesley Manville ( 2010 ) Olivia Colman ( 2011 ) Andrea Riseborough ( 2012 ) Judi Dench ( 2013 ) Rosamund Pike ( 2014 ) Saoirse Ronan ( 2015 ) Kate Beckinsale ( 2016 ) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress 1967 -- 1979 Marjorie Rhodes ( 1967 ) Billie Whitelaw ( 1968 ) Siân Phillips / Delphine Seyrig ( 1969 ) Lois Smith ( 1970 ) Ellen Burstyn ( 1971 ) Jeannie Berlin ( 1972 ) Valentina Cortese ( 1973 ) Bibi Andersson ( 1974 ) Lily Tomlin ( 1975 ) Jodie Foster ( 1976 ) Ann Wedgeworth ( 1977 ) Meryl Streep ( 1978 ) Meryl Streep ( 1979 ) 1980 -- 1999 Mary Steenburgen ( 1980 ) Maureen Stapleton ( 1981 ) Jessica Lange ( 1982 ) Sandra Bernhard ( 1983 ) Melanie Griffith ( 1984 ) Anjelica Huston ( 1985 ) Dianne Wiest ( 1986 ) Kathy Baker ( 1987 ) Mercedes Ruehl ( 1988 ) Anjelica Huston ( 1989 ) Annette Bening ( 1990 ) Jane Horrocks ( 1991 ) Judy Davis ( 1992 ) Madeleine Stowe ( 1993 ) Dianne Wiest ( 1994 ) Joan Allen ( 1995 ) Barbara Hershey ( 1996 ) Julianne Moore ( 1997 ) Judi Dench ( 1998 ) Chloë Sevigny ( 1999 ) 2000 -- present Elaine May ( 2000 ) Helen Mirren ( 2001 ) Patricia Clarkson ( 2002 ) Patricia Clarkson ( 2003 ) Virginia Madsen ( 2004 ) Amy Adams ( 2005 ) Meryl Streep ( 2006 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2007 ) Hanna Schygulla ( 2008 ) Mo'Nique ( 2009 ) Olivia Williams ( 2010 ) Jessica Chastain ( 2011 ) Amy Adams ( 2012 ) Jennifer Lawrence ( 2013 ) Patricia Arquette ( 2014 ) Kristen Stewart ( 2015 ) Michelle Williams ( 2016 ) Satellite Award for Best Cast -- Motion Picture Sideways Thomas Haden Church Paul Giamatti Virginia Madsen Sandra Oh 2005 Crash Chris Bridges Sandra Bullock Don Cheadle Matt Dillon Jennifer Esposito William Fichtner Brendan Fraser Terrence Howard Thandie Newton Ryan Phillippe Larenz Tate 2006 The Departed Anthony Anderson Alec Baldwin Matt Damon Leonardo DiCaprio Vera Farmiga Jack Nicholson Martin Sheen Mark Wahlberg Ray Winstone 2007 Before the Devil Knows You 're Dead Albert Finney Rosemary Harris Ethan Hawke Philip Seymour Hoffman Brían F. O'Byrne Amy Ryan Michael Shannon Marisa Tomei 2009 Nine Marion Cotillard Penélope Cruz Daniel Day - Lewis Judi Dench Fergie Kate Hudson Nicole Kidman Sophia Loren 2011 The Help Anna Camp Jessica Chastain Viola Davis Nelsan Ellis Aunjanue Ellis Bryce Dallas Howard Dana Ivey Allison Janney Leslie Jordan Brian Kerwin Chris Lowell Ahna O'Reilly David Oyelowo Sissy Spacek Octavia Spencer Mary Steenburgen Emma Stone Cicely Tyson Mike Vogel 2012 Les Miserábles Samantha Barks Sacha Baron Cohen Helena Bonham Carter Russell Crowe Anne Hathaway Hugh Jackman Eddie Redmayne Amanda Seyfried Aaron Tveit 2013 Nebraska Bruce Dern Missy Doty Will Forte Rance Howard Stacy Keach Angela McEwan Bob Odenkirk Devin Ratray Melinda Simonsen June Squibb Roger Stuckwisch Mary Louise Wilson 2014 Into the Woods Christine Baranski Tammy Blanchard Emily Blunt James Corden Lilla Crawford Frances de la Tour Johnny Depp Daniel Huttlestone Anna Kendrick Billy Magnussen MacKenzie Mauzy Chris Pine Lucy Punch Meryl Streep Tracey Ullman 2015 Spotlight Brian d'Arcy James Michael Keaton Rachel McAdams Mark Ruffalo Liev Schreiber John Slattery Stanley Tucci 2016 Hidden Figures Mahershala Ali Kevin Costner Kirsten Dunst Taraji P. Henson Aldis Hodge Janelle Monáe Jim Parsons Glen Powell Kimberly Quinn Octavia Spencer Satellite Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( 1996 -- 2010, retired ) Gwyneth Paltrow ( 1996 ) Helen Hunt ( 1997 ) Christina Ricci ( 1998 ) Janet McTeer ( 1999 ) Renée Zellweger ( 2000 ) Nicole Kidman ( 2001 ) Jennifer Westfeldt ( 2002 ) Diane Keaton ( 2003 ) Annette Bening ( 2004 ) Reese Witherspoon ( 2005 ) Meryl Streep ( 2006 ) Ellen Page ( 2007 ) Sally Hawkins ( 2008 ) Meryl Streep ( 2009 ) Anne Hathaway ( 2010 ) Motion Picture Drama ( 1996 -- 2010, retired ) Frances McDormand ( 1996 ) Judi Dench ( 1997 ) Cate Blanchett ( 1998 ) Hilary Swank ( 1999 ) Ellen Burstyn ( 2000 ) Sissy Spacek ( 2001 ) Diane Lane ( 2002 ) Charlize Theron ( 2003 ) Hilary Swank ( 2004 ) Felicity Huffman ( 2005 ) Helen Mirren ( 2006 ) Marion Cotillard ( 2007 ) Angelina Jolie ( 2008 ) Shohreh Aghdashloo ( 2009 ) Noomi Rapace ( 2010 ) Motion Picture ( 2011 -- present ) Viola Davis ( 2011 ) Jennifer Lawrence ( 2012 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2013 ) Julianne Moore ( 2014 ) Saoirse Ronan ( 2015 ) Isabelle Huppert ‎ / Ruth Negga ( 2016 ) Satellite Award for Best Actress -- Miniseries or Television Film Helen Mirren ( 1996 ) Jennifer Beals ( 1997 ) Angelina Jolie ( 1998 ) Linda Hamilton ( 1999 ) Jill Hennessy ( 2000 ) Judy Davis ( 2001 ) Vanessa Williams ( 2002 ) Meryl Streep ( 2003 ) Dianne Wiest ( 2004 ) Kristen Bell ( 2005 ) Judy Davis ( 2006 ) Samantha Morton ( 2007 ) Judi Dench ( 2008 ) Drew Barrymore ( 2009 ) Claire Danes ( 2010 ) Kate Winslet ( 2011 ) Julianne Moore ( 2012 ) Elisabeth Moss ( 2013 ) Frances McDormand ( 2014 ) Sarah Hay ( 2015 ) Sarah Paulson ( 2016 ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ( 1995 -- 2000 ) 1995 Apollo 13 Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinise The Birdcage Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Robin Williams The Full Monty Mark Addy, Paul Barber, Robert Carlyle, Deirdre Costello, Steve Huison, Bruce Jones, Lesley Sharp, William Snape, Hugo Speer, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Woof 1998 Shakespeare in Love Ben Affleck, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Martin Clunes, Judi Dench, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Antony Sher, Imelda Staunton 1999 American Beauty Annette Bening, Wes Bentley, Thora Birch, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari 2000 Traffic Steven Bauer, Benjamin Bratt, James Brolin, Don Cheadle, Erika Christensen, Clifton Collins Jr., Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Albert Finney, Topher Grace, Luis Guzmán, Amy Irving, Tomas Milian, D.W. Moffett, Dennis Quaid, Peter Riegert, Jacob Vargas, Catherine Zeta - Jones Complete list ( 1995 -- 2000 ) ( 2001 -- 2010 ) ( 2011 -- 2020 ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Dianne Wiest ( 1994 ) Kate Winslet ( 1995 ) Lauren Bacall ( 1996 ) Kim Basinger / Gloria Stuart ( 1997 ) Kathy Bates ( 1998 ) Angelina Jolie ( 1999 ) Judi Dench ( 2000 ) Helen Mirren ( 2001 ) Catherine Zeta - Jones ( 2002 ) Renée Zellweger ( 2003 ) Cate Blanchett ( 2004 ) Rachel Weisz ( 2005 ) Jennifer Hudson ( 2006 ) Ruby Dee ( 2007 ) Kate Winslet ( 2008 ) Mo'Nique ( 2009 ) Melissa Leo ( 2010 ) Octavia Spencer ( 2011 ) Anne Hathaway ( 2012 ) Lupita Nyong'o ( 2013 ) Patricia Arquette ( 2014 ) Alicia Vikander ( 2015 ) Viola Davis ( 2016 ) Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Ingrid Bergman / Helen Hayes ( 1947 ) Judith Anderson / Katharine Cornell / Jessica Tandy ( 1948 ) Martita Hunt ( 1949 ) Shirley Booth ( 1950 ) Uta Hagen ( 1951 ) Julie Harris ( 1952 ) Shirley Booth ( 1953 ) Audrey Hepburn ( 1954 ) Nancy Kelly ( 1955 ) Julie Harris ( 1956 ) Margaret Leighton ( 1957 ) Helen Hayes ( 1958 ) Gertrude Berg ( 1959 ) Anne Bancroft ( 1960 ) Joan Plowright ( 1961 ) Margaret Leighton ( 1962 ) Uta Hagen ( 1963 ) Sandy Dennis ( 1964 ) Irene Worth ( 1965 ) Rosemary Harris ( 1966 ) Beryl Reid ( 1967 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1968 ) Julie Harris ( 1969 ) Tammy Grimes ( 1970 ) Maureen Stapleton ( 1971 ) Sada Thompson ( 1972 ) Julie Harris ( 1973 ) Colleen Dewhurst ( 1974 ) Ellen Burstyn ( 1975 ) Irene Worth ( 1976 ) Julie Harris ( 1977 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1978 ) Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley ( 1979 ) Phyllis Frelich ( 1980 ) Jane Lapotaire ( 1981 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1982 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1983 ) Glenn Close ( 1984 ) Stockard Channing ( 1985 ) Lily Tomlin ( 1986 ) Linda Lavin ( 1987 ) Joan Allen ( 1988 ) Pauline Collins ( 1989 ) Maggie Smith ( 1990 ) Mercedes Ruehl ( 1991 ) Glenn Close ( 1992 ) Madeline Kahn ( 1993 ) Diana Rigg ( 1994 ) Cherry Jones ( 1995 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1996 ) Janet McTeer ( 1997 ) Marie Mullen ( 1998 ) Judi Dench ( 1999 ) Jennifer Ehle ( 2000 ) Mary - Louise Parker ( 2001 ) Lindsay Duncan ( 2002 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 2003 ) Phylicia Rashad ( 2004 ) Cherry Jones ( 2005 ) Cynthia Nixon ( 2006 ) Julie White ( 2007 ) Deanna Dunagan ( 2008 ) Marcia Gay Harden ( 2009 ) Viola Davis ( 2010 ) Frances McDormand ( 2011 ) Nina Arianda ( 2012 ) Cicely Tyson ( 2013 ) Audra McDonald ( 2014 ) Helen Mirren ( 2015 ) Jessica Lange ( 2016 ) Laurie Metcalf ( 2017 ) VIAF : 19878023 LCCN : n87856331 ISNI : 0000 0001 1488 4730 GND : 122325702 SUDOC : 069320063 BNF : cb14011620f ( data ) MusicBrainz : a69f5a73 - e016 - 4069 - 989d - 8c093ec63ec5 NLA : 35371092 NKC : xx0005660 BNE : XX1361647 IATH : w6pr92mx Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judi_Dench&oldid=804863026 '' Categories : 1934 births 20th - century English actresses 20th - century women writers 20th - century writers 21st - century English actresses 21st - century women writers Actresses awarded British damehoods Actresses from York Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award winners European Film Awards winners ( people ) BAFTA winners ( people ) Best Actress BAFTA Award winners Best Drama Actress Golden Globe ( film ) winners Best Miniseries or Television Movie Actress Golden Globe winners Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners English racehorse owners and breeders Converts to Quakerism Critics ' Circle Theatre Award winners Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire English people of Irish descent English autobiographers English film actresses English musical theatre actresses English Quakers English radio actresses English television actresses English video game actresses English voice actresses English women writers Evening Standard Award for Best Actress winners Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts Indigenous rights activists Interactive Achievement Award winners Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Laurence Olivier Award winners Living people Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners People educated at The Mount School, York Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale Royal Shakespeare Company members English Shakespearean actresses Tony Award winners English theatre directors Freemen of the City of London Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y Use British English from September 2011 Use dmy dates from November 2015 Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July 2017 Articles needing more detailed references Articles with IBDb links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - 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Question: who plays m in the james bond movies
Answer: Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench