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Jenny Well, he’s only 19. Eddie’s my brother. both in the theatre and on film. Many people think it
Jenny I need to go. was one of the best ever performances of the play.
Rob Well, have a good journey. She also appeared in British films like A Room with a
Jenny Thanks, Rob. Bye. View in nineteen eighty-five and Henry V in nineteen
Rob Bye. And see you in New York! eighty-nine.
In the nineteen nineties, her career changed with two
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films. The first of these was the James Bond film,
1 I can’t believe it!
GoldenEye, where Dench played Bond’s boss, M,
2 Thank you so much.
normally a part for a man. Dench was a great
3 I’m so happy.
success in the part. She was hard, and at the same
4 Have a good journey.
time funny. She played the part in eight films, with
5 See you in New York!
both Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig as James
Bond. The second film that changed her career was
Mrs Brown in nineteen ninety-seven. Dench played
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Queen Victoria. This small, British film was a great
Judi Dench – a life in acting success and she was nominated for an Oscar for
Judi Dench is one of a golden generation of British Best Actress.
actors who have had long and successful careers,
In nineteen ninety-eight, she played Queen Elizabeth
including Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian
I in the comedy, Shakespeare in Love. The film was
McKellen, Michael Caine, and Anthony Hopkins. She
another big hit. It won the nineteen ninety-nine Oscar
has acted in the theatre, on television, and in films in
for Best Film, and Judi Dench won the Oscar for Best
a career of nearly sixty years.
Supporting Actress. She’s only in the film for eight
Judith Olivia Dench was born on the ninth of minutes, but, as ever, she's absolutely brilliant.
December nineteen thirty-four in York in the north of
England. Dench’s father was a doctor, but she had
connections from a very early age to the Theatre
Royal in York – her father was the theatre’s doctor
and her mother made costumes for the theatre. As a
teenager, Judi Dench acted in the York Mystery
Plays. These religious plays have been performed in
York every four years since the fourteenth century.
In the late nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, she
acted with Britain’s most important theatre
companies, the Old Vic, the Royal Court, and the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
In the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties,
Dench continued to work in the theatre and on British
television. In nineteen seventy-eight, she acted in
Shakespeare’s Macbeth with the actor Ian McKellen,
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