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Judi Dench
Age: 75
Height: 5' 1"
Birth Place: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Born: Dec. 9th, 1934
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BIOGRAPHY: Attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and at Old Vic Theatre. She is a five-time BAFTA winner including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for "A Fine Romance" (1981) in which she appeared with her husband, Michael Williams (I), and Best Supporting Actress in A Handful of Dust (1988) and A Room with a View (1985) . She received an ACE award for her performance in the television series Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985) (TV). She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1970, and was created Dame of Order of the British Empire in 1988.
TRIVIA:
- Shares two roles with both 'Kate Winslet' (qv) and 'Cate Blanchett' (qv). She and Winslet both played the title role in _Iris (2001/I)_ (qv), and she and Blanchette have both played Queen Elizabeth. All three of them have played Ophelia in Hamlet.
- She was awarded the 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) Theatre Award in 1988 (1987 season) for Best Actress in a New Play for Antony and Cleopatra.
- She was awarded the 2004 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) Theatre Special Award for her Outstanding Contributions to British Theatre.
- Awarded honorary D.Litt from the University of St Andrews, June 2008.
- Judi Dench is the new narrator of Spaceship Earth, the dark ride at EPCOT. She replaced Jeremy Irons after Walt Disney World and Siemens decided to update the classic ride housed inside the infamous golf-ball.
- She was awarded the 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) Theatre Award in 1996 (1995 season) for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Absolute Hell at the Royal National Theatre Lyttleton Stage.
- When Royal Shakespeare Company Director 'Peter Hall (I)' (qv) asked Judi Dench to play the title role in a staged, and then later televised, production of Cleopatra, Dench refused, saying that her Cleopatra would be a "menopausal dwarf." Director Hall was later successful in coaxing Dench into the role, of which she won rave reviews from both theatre critics and TV audiences.
- She is a frequent co-star of her close friend 'Geoffrey Palmer' (qv).
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