Judi Dench Biography (2)

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In 1999, Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Shakespeare in Love as well as a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production of Amy's View. She received the O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) in 1970 for services to the theater, and subsequently became a D.B.E. (Dame of the British Empire) in 1988.

Since playing Ophelia in Hamlet at the Old Vic 40 years ago, Dench has received wide critical acclaim for a career marked by outstanding performances in both classical and contemporary roles. She has won more than 25 awards - including five British Academy Awards - in a career that has encompassed the stage, television and motion pictures. Her feature film credits include: Mrs. Brown (for which she won a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and Oscar nomination), Wetherby, A Room With a View (for which she won a BAFTA Award as Best Supporting Actress), 84 Charing Cross Road, A Handful of Dust (another BAFTA Award-winning performance as Best Supporting Actress) and two films for Kenneth Branagh, Henry V and Hamlet.

More recently, she appeared with an ensemble cast in Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini. Dench won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and was named Best Supporting Actress by the National Society of Film Critics for her performance in the hit romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love.

She continues to work on the London stage, most recently David Hare's Amy's View. Dench subsequently starred (with Samantha Bond, her co-star in The World is Not Enough) in that play's recent Broadway production, winning a Tony Award for her performance.

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