name	Dame Judi Dench
birth name	Judith Olivia Dench
birth date	December 09, 1934
birth place	York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
occupation	Actress, Author
years active	1957–present
spouse	Michael Williams (1971–2001; widowed)
children	Finty Williams
parents	Reginald Arthur DenchEleanora Olave Jones }}

Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.

Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in ''Hamlet'', Juliet in ''Romeo and Juliet'' and Lady Macbeth in ''Macbeth''. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical ''Cabaret'' in 1968.

During the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series ''A Fine Romance'' from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series ''As Time Goes By''.

Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in ''GoldenEye'' (1995), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in ''Mrs. Brown'' (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998), ''Chocolat'' (2000), ''Iris'' (2001), ''Mrs Henderson Presents'' (2005) and ''Notes on a Scandal'' (2006), and the television production ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'' (2001).

Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television; her awards include ten BAFTAs, (including the Bafta Fellowship in 2001) seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. In June 2011, she received a fellowship from the British Film Institute (BFI).

She was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of actress Finty Williams.

Personal life[link]

Dench was born in Heworth, York, England, the daughter of Eleanora Olave (née Jones), a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor who met Judi's mother while 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 is actor Jeffery Dench, were born in Tyldesley, Lancashire. Notable relatives also include her niece, Emma Dench, a Roman historian and professor previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1971, Dench married British actor Michael Williams and they had their only child, Tara Cressida Frances Williams, known professionally as Finty Williams, on 24 September 1972.

Dench and her husband starred together in several stage productions, and the Bob Larbey British television sitcom, ''A Fine Romance'' (1981–84). Michael Williams died from lung cancer in 2001, aged 65.

Macular degeneration[link]

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 was needing someone to read scripts to her.

Career [link]

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 actress.

Early years [link]

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 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, 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'', then 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 Juliet in ''Romeo and Juliet'' in October 1960, 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 [link]

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."

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 don'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 J C 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 10,000th 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 Samantha Bond 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 the title role of 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, 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 [link]

In 1995, she took over the role of M (James Bond's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with ''GoldenEye'' replacing Robert Brown. She has appeared in six James Bond films, including ''Die Another Day'' (2002),''Casino Royale'' (2006) and its direct sequel ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), making her the longest-running current cast member of the series. She is currently filming her seventh Bond film, ''Skyfall'', to be released in 2012.

She has won multiple awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards. She also won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in David Hare's ''Amy's View''. She has taken on the role of Director for a number of stage productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Elizabeth I in the film ''Shakespeare in Love''.

Judi Dench has frequently appeared with her close friend Geoffrey Palmer. They co-starred in the series ''As Time Goes By'', where she played Jean Pargetter, becoming Jean Hardcastle after she married Lionel Hardcastle. The programme spanned nine seasons. They also worked together on the films ''Mrs. Brown'' and ''Tomorrow Never Dies'', both filmed in 1997. Dench has also lent her distinctive voice to many animated characters, narrations, and various other voice work. She plays the role of "Miss Lilly" in the children's animated series ''Angelina Ballerina'' (alongside her daughter, Finty Williams, as the voice of Angelina) and as Mrs. Calloway in the Disney animated film ''Home on the Range''. She has narrated various classical music recordings (notably Mendelssohn's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and Britten's ''Canticles-The Heart of the Matter''), and has appeared in numerous BBC Radio broadcasts as well as commercials. Her many television appearances include lead roles in the series ''A Fine Romance'' and ''As Time Goes By''. In the United States, ''As Time Goes By'' has been repeated on PBS and on BBC America.

Recent years [link]

Dench returned to the West End stage in April 2006 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's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for ''Mrs. Brown'' in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in ''Shakespeare in Love'' in 1998; for ''Chocolat'' in 2000; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in ''Iris'' in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for ''Mrs Henderson Presents'' (a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre) in 2005; and for 2006's ''Notes on a Scandal'', a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

In 2007, the BBC issued ''The Judi Dench Collection'', DVDs of eight television dramas: ''Talking to a Stranger'' quartet (1966), ''Keep an Eye on Amélie'' (1973), ''The Cherry Orchard'' (1981), ''Going Gently'' (1981), ''Ghosts'' (with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987), ''Make and Break'' (with Robert Hardy, 1987), ''Can You Hear Me Thinking?'' (co-starring with her husband, Michael Williams, 1990) and ''Absolute Hell'' (1991).

Dench, as Miss Matty Jenkins, co-starred with Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis, in the BBC One five-part series ''Cranford''. The series began transmission in the UK in November 2007, and on the BBC's U.S. producing partner station WGBH (PBS Boston) in spring 2008.

Dench became the voice for the narration for the updated Walt Disney World Epcot attraction Spaceship Earth in February 2008.

In February 2008, 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. This culminated on 21 June with a day of city centre performances in York.

She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure ''Quantum of Solace'' and reprised her role as ''M''.

She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, "Smokey Oakey", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.

She returned to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in Yukio Mishima's ''Madame De Sade'', directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar season at Wyndham's Theatre. A year later, Dench renewed her collaboration with Sir Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as Queen Elizabeth I in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Judi 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, the entire concert in honour of his music.

Public life [link]

Dench was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1970 and promoted to Dame Commander of the order in 1988. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2005. In June 2011, she became a fellow of the British Film Institute (BFI).

Dench is a patron of the Leaveners, Friends School Saffron Walden and the Archway Theatre, Horley, Surrey. She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir John Mills, and is also president of the Questors Theatre, Ealing. In May 2006, she became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 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.

Dench is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In 1996, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (D.Univ) from Surrey University and in 2000–2001 she received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University. In July 2000, she was awarded a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) by Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, where she actively supported their Drama School at the Gateway Theatre on Elm Row. On 24 June 2008, she was honoured by the University of St Andrews, receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) at the university's graduation ceremony.

Dench has worked with the non-governmental indigenous organisation, Survival International, campaigning in the defence of the tribal people, the Bushmen of Botswana and the Arhuaco of Colombia. She made a small supporting video saying the Bushmen are victims of tyranny, greed and racism.

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 existing high profile personalities, 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. in Everton, Liverpool. It was also revealed that Dench is a supporter of Everton.

Filmography [link]

! Year	! Title	! Role	He Who Rides a Tiger''	Joanne
1968	''''	Titania
1973		Katherine
1974		Laura Davidson
1978		Imogen Langrishe	BBC television film
1979	''On Giant's Shoulders''	Hazel Wiles	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress
1985	''''	Narrator
1985		Marcia Pilborough	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1985	''''	Eleanor Lavish	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1987		Nora Doel	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1988	''''	Mrs. Beaver	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1989		Mistress Quickly
1989		Bridget Mayor	Channel 4 television serialNominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
1993–1997		Announcer
1995	''Jack and Sarah''	Margaret
1995	''GoldenEye''
1996		Hecuba
1997	''Mrs. Brown''	Queen Victoria	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleBAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress in a FilmGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture DramaChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressLondon Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the YearOnline Film Critics Society Award for Best ActressSatellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture DramaNominated – Academy Award for Best ActressNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
1997	''Tomorrow Never Dies''	M
1998	''Shakespeare in Love''
1999	''Tea with Mussolini''	Arabella
1999	''''	M
2000	''Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport''	Narrator	Documentary
2000	''''	Elizabeth	British Academy Television Award for Best ActressGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a MovieNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2000		Armande Voizin	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting RoleNominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting RoleNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureNominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2001		Iris Murdoch	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleLondon Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the YearNominated – Academy Award for Best ActressNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture DramaNominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best ActressNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading RoleNominated – Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
2001	''''	Agnis Hamm	Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting RoleNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2002		Lady Bracknell
2002	''Die Another Day''	M
2002–05	''Angelina Ballerina''	Miss Lilly	Voice role
2003	''Bugs!''	Narrator	Short subject
2004		Mrs. Caloway	Voice role
2004	''''	Aereon
2004	''Ladies in Lavender''	Ursula Widdington
2005		Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2005	''Mrs Henderson Presents''	Laura Henderson
2006	''''	Narrator
2006		M
2006		Barbara Covett	British Independent Film Awards 2007
2007	''[[Go Inside to Greet the Light''	Narrator
2007, 2009		Miss Matty	Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best ActressNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a MovieSatellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
2008		M
2009		Mona Carvell
2009		Liliane La Fleur	Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion PictureNominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best CastNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureNominated – Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble
2011		Mrs. Fairfax
2011	''Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides''	Noblewoman	Cameo
2011	''My Week with Marilyn''		Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
2011	''J. Edgar''	Anna Marie
2012	''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel''	Evelyn
2012		Bag Lady	Cameo
2012		M	Post-production

She has also lent her likeness and voice for the role of M in James Bond video games:

''Everything or Nothing''

''GoldenEye: Rogue Agent''

''Quantum of Solace''

''GoldenEye 007''

''Blood Stone''

Theatre work [link]

Source: "Judi Dench: With a Crack in her Voice" by John Miller

As an actress [link]

St Mary's Abbey

1957

:''York Mystery Plays'' – Virgin Mary Old Vic Company

1957

:''Hamlet'' – Ophelia :''Measure for Measure'' – Juliet :''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' – First Fairy

1958

:''Twelfth Night'' – Maria (also USA tour) :''Henry V'' – Katharine (also USA tour)

1959

:''The Double Dealer'' – Cynthia :''As You Like It'' – Phebe :''The Importance of Being Earnest'' – Cecily :''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' – Anne Page

1960

:''Richard II'' – Queen :''Romeo and Juliet'' – Juliet (also Venice Festival) :''She Stoops to Conquer'' – Kate Hardcastle :''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' – Hermia ::Also walk-on roles in ''King Lear'' and ''Henry VI (Parts 1 and 2)'' Royal Shakespeare Company RSC

1961

:''The Cherry Orchard'' – Anya, Aldwych Theatre

1962

:''Measure for Measure'' – Isabella, Stratford :''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' – Titania, Stratford :''A Penny for a Song'' – Dorcas Bellboys, Aldwych Nottingham Playhouse Company

1963

:''Macbeth'' – Lady Macbeth (also West Africa tour) :''Twelfth Night'' – Viola (also West Africa tour) :''A Shot in the Dark'' – Josefa Lautenay, Lyric Theatre The Oxford Playhouse Company

1964

:''Three Sisters'' – Irina :''The Twelfth Hour'' – Anna

1965

:''The Alchemist'' – Dol Common :''Romeo and Jeannette'' – Jeannette :''The Firescreen'' – Jacqueline Nottingham Playhouse Company

1965

:''Measure for Measure'' – Isabella :''Private Lives'' – Amanda

1966

:''The Country Wife'' – Margery Pinchwife :''The Astrakhan Coat'' – Barbara :''St Joan'' – Joan Oxford Playhouse Company

1966

:''The Promise'' – Lika :''The Rules of the Game'' – Silia

1967

:''The Promise'' – Lika, Fortune Theatre Palace Theatre

1968

:''Cabaret'' – Sally Bowles RSC

1969

:''The Winter's Tale'' – Hermione and Perdita, Stratford :''Women Beware Women'' – Bianca, Stratford :''Twelfth Night'' – Viola, Stratford

1970

:''London Assurance'' – Grace Harkaway, Aldwych :''Major Barbara'' – Barbara Undershaft, Aldwych

1971

:''The Merchant of Venice'' – Portia, Stratford :''The Duchess of Malfi'' – Duchess, Stratford :''Toad of Toad Hall'' – Fielfmouse, Stoat and Mother Rabbit, Stratford No Company

1973

:''Context to Whisper'' – Aurelia, Royal, York :''Fanfare'' – Royal Opera House (with Laurence Olivier) :''The Wolf'' – Vilma, Oxford Playhouse (also at Apollo, Queen's & New London) West End

1974

:''The Good Companions'' – Miss Trant, Her Majesty's

1975

:''The Gay Lord Quex'' – Sophy Fullgarney, Albery RSC

1975

:''Too True to Be Good'' – Sweetie Simpkins, Aldwych

1976

:''Much Ado About Nothing'' – Beatrice, Stratford :''Macbeth'' – Lady Macbeth, Stratford (also Donmar Warehouse and Young Vic) :''The Comedy of Errors'' – Adriana, Stratford :''King Lear'' – Regan, Stratford

1977

:''Pillars of the Community'' – Lona Hessel, Aldwych

1978

:''The Way of the World'' – Millamant, Aldwych

1979

:''Cymbeline'' – Imogen, Stratford

1980

:''Juno and the Paycock'' – Juno Boyle, Aldwych No Company

1981

:''A Village Wooing'' – Young Woman, New End National Theatre

1982

:''The Importance of Being Earnest'' – Lady Bracknell, Lyttelton

:''A Kind of Alaska'' – Deborah, Cottesloe

1983

:''Pack of Lies'' – Barbara Jackson, Lyric RSC

1984

:''Mother Courage'' – Mother Courage, Barbican :''Waste'' Amy O'Connell, Barbican and Lyric West End

1986

:''Mr and Mrs Nobody'' – Carrie Pooter, Garrick National Theatre

1987

:''Antony and Cleopatra'' – Cleopatra, Olivier :''Entertaining Strangers'' – Sarah Eldridge, Cottesloe

1989

:''Hamlet'' – Gertrude, Olivier RSC :''The Cherry Orchard'' – Ranevskaya, Aldwych

1991

:''The Plough and the Stars'' – Bessie Burgess, Young Vic National Theatre

1991

:''The Sea'' – Mrs Rafi, Lyttelton

1992

:''Coriolanus'' – Volumnia, Chichester Royal Shakespeare Company

1992

:''The Gift of the Gorgon'' – Helen Damson, Barbican and Wyndham's National Theatre

1994

:''The Seagull'' – Arkadina, Olivier

1995

:''Absolute Hell'' – Christine Foskett, Lyttelton

:''A Little Night Music'' – Desirée Armfeldt, Olivier

1997

:''Amy's View'' – Esmé, Lyttelton

1998

:''Amy's View'' – Esmé, Aldwych West End and Broadway

1998

:''Filumena'' – Filumena, Piccadilly

1999

:''Amy's View'' – Esmé, Barrymore, New York

2001

:''The Royal Family'' – Fanny Cavendish, Theatre Royal Haymarket

2002

:''The Breath of Life'' – Frances, Theatre Royal Haymarket RSC

2003

:''All's Well That Ends Well'' – The Countess, Stratford and Gielgud West End

2006

:''Hay Fever'' – Judith Bliss, Theatre Royal Haymarket RSC

2006

:''The Merry Wives – The Musical'' – Mistress Quickly, Stratford Donmar Warehouse

2009

:''Madame de Sade'' – Madame de Montreuil, Donmar at Wyndham's Rose Theatre, Kingston

2010 ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' – Titania (as Elizabeth I, Queen of the Forest of Arden)

Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

2010 ''Into The Woods – Stephen Sondheim'' – Voice of The Giant

As a director [link]

1988 – ''Much Ado About Nothing'', Renaissance Theatre Company

1989 – ''Look Back in Anger'' – Renaissance Theatre Company

1989 – ''Macbeth'' – Central School of Speech and Drama

1991 – ''The Boy from Syracuse'', Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

1993 – ''Romeo and Juliet'', Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Discography [link]

''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

Awards and nominations [link]

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Theatre [link]

; Awards

1977: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival – ''Macbeth''

1980: Evening Standard Award for Best Actress – ''Juno and the Paycock''

1980: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival – ''Juno and the Paycock''

1982: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress – ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' and ''A Kind of Alaska''

1982: Evening Standard Award for Best Actress – ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' and ''A Kind of Alaska''

1984: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play – ''Pack of Lies''

1987: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress – ''Antony and Cleopatra''

1987: Evening Standard Award for Best Actress – ''Antony and Cleopatra''

1987: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress – ''Antony and Cleopatra''

1996: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress – ''Absolute Hell''

1996: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Entertainment – ''A Little Night Music''

1997: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress – ''Amy's View''

1999: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play – ''Amy's View''

2004: Laurence Olivier Award: Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to British Theatre''

Television [link]

; Awards 1967: BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress – ''Talking to a Stranger''

1982: British Academy Television Award for Best Actress – ''A Fine Romance'', Going Gently and The Cherry Orchard

1982: Broadcast Press Guild Award for Best Actress – ''A Fine Romance''

1985: British Academy Television Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance – ''A Fine Romance''

2001: British Academy Television Award for Best Actress – ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells''

2001: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film – ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells''

; Nominations

1979 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress – ''On Giant's Shoulders''

1983: British Television Academy Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance – ''A Fine Romance''

1984: British Academy Television Award for Best Actress – Saigon: Year of the Cat

1984: British Television Academy Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance – ''A Fine Romance''

1990: British Academy Television Award for Best Actress – ''Behaving Badly''

1998: British Television Academy Award for Best Comedy Performance – ''As Time Goes By''

2001: American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special – ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2001: Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie – ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2001: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie – ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells''

2008: British Academy Television Award for Best Actress – ''Cranford''

2008: Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie – ''Cranford''

2008: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film – ''Cranford''

2008: Satellite Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film – ''Cranford''

2010: Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie – ''Return to Cranford''

References [link]

Further reading [link]

Dench, Judi. ''And Furthermore''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010. ISBN 978-0-297-85967-3.

Lavery, Alison (ed.). ''The Judi Dench Handbook''. Emereo, 2010. ISBN 978-1-74244-659-2.

Miller, John (ed.). ''Darling Judi: A Celebration of Judi Dench''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN 0-297-84791-0.

Trowbridge, Simon. ''The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company''. Oxford: Editions Albert Creed, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9559830-2-3.

External links [link]

Judi Dench Biography

Judi Dench at the Royal Shakespeare Company performance database

As Time Goes By Central website

Judi Dench on Acting Regal

University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Bristol

The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the RSC: Online database

Dame Judi Dench at Emmys.com

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name	Graham Norton
birth name	Graham William Walker
birth date	April 04, 1963
birth place	Clondalkin, Dublin, Ireland
medium	Television, radio, stand-up
nationality	Irish
active	1992–present
genre	Observational comedy
subject	Everyday life, pop culture, current events, celebrities, sex
awards
notable work	''So Graham Norton''''V Graham Norton''''The Graham Norton Effect''''Graham Norton's Bigger Picture''''The Graham Norton Show'' }}

Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton, (born 4 April 1963) is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist. He is the host of comedy chat programme ''The Graham Norton Show'' on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US. ''Hot Press'' has described him as "the 21st century's answer to Terry Wogan", with both men sharing an Irish background and the common link of being a BBC Radio 2 presenter and the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest. Norton has won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance on five occassions.

Early life and career[link]

Norton was born in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, but grew up in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland to a Protestant family. He was educated at Bandon Grammar School, in County Cork and then University College Cork but did not complete his studies.

In 1992 his stand-up comedy drag act in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a tea-towel clad Mother Teresa of Calcutta made the press when Scottish Television's religious affairs department mistakenly thought he represented the real Mother Teresa.

His first appearances in broadcasting were in his spot as a regular comedian and panellist on the BBC Radio 4 show ''Loose Ends'', when the show ran on Saturday mornings, in the early 1990s. His rise to fame began as one of the early successes of Channel 5, when he won an award for his performance as the stand-in host of a late-night TV talk show usually presented by Jack Docherty. This was followed by a comic quiz show on Channel 5 called ''Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment'', which was not well received as a programme, but did further enhance Norton's individual reputation as a comic and TV host. In 1996, Norton co-hosted the late-night quiz show ''Carnal Knowledge'' on ITV with Maria McErlane.

In 1996, Norton played the part of Father Noel Furlong in three episodes ("Hell", "Flight Into Terror", "The Mainland") of the Channel 4 series ''Father Ted''. Father Noel Furlong was often seen taking charge of a small youth folk-group.

Channel 4[link]

After this early success, Norton moved to Channel 4 to host his own chat shows including ''So Graham Norton'' and ''V Graham Norton''. As a performer who is not only openly gay, but also camp and flamboyant, it was here that Norton's act was fully honed as a cheeky, innuendo-laden joker.

In 2003, he was the subject of controversy when, on his show on Channel 4, he made a comedic reference to the recent death of Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb. The Independent Television Commission investigated after complaints about this insensitivity were forwarded to it and eventually Channel 4 had to make two apologies: one in the form of a caption slide before the show, another from Norton in person.

Also in 2003, he was listed in ''The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. (Though Norton is Irish, the bulk of his television career has been in the UK.)

In the summer of 2004, Norton moved across the Atlantic to start a new venture in American television. ''The Graham Norton Effect'' debuted on 24 June 2004 on Comedy Central, and was also broadcast in the UK on BBC Three. In the midst of controversy surrounding Janet Jackson's Super Bowl performance, Norton was wary of moving into the market.

BBC[link]

In 2005, Norton moved to the BBC and began hosting the Saturday evening reality TV series ''Strictly Dance Fever'' on BBC One, as well as a new comedy chat show, ''Graham Norton's Bigger Picture''. He also read stories some nights on the BBC children's channel CBeebies as part of ''Bedtime Hour''.

In 2006, Norton hosted the BBC One series ''How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?'' in which Andrew Lloyd Webber tried to find a lead actress for his West End version of ''The Sound of Music''. Norton has subsequently presented the 3 follow-up series: ''Any Dream Will Do'' in 2007, in which a group of males competed to win the role of Joseph in the West End production of ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''; ''I'd Do Anything'' in 2008, in which Andrew Lloyd Webber seeks to find the part of Nancy and Oliver for Sir Cameron Mackintosh's production of Lionel Bart's ''Oliver!''; and ''Over the Rainbow'' in 2010, following a similar format to find a new Dorothy for a ''Wizard of Oz'' West end Production.

Norton hosted various other shows for the BBC during this time, including ''When Will I Be Famous?'' (2007), ''The One and Only'' (2008) and ''Totally Saturday'' (2009). Since 2007, Norton has also been a regular host of The British Academy Television Awards. On 7 July 2007, Norton presented at Live Earth and undertook a trip to Ethiopia with the Born Free Foundation to highlight the plight of the Ethiopian wolf – the rarest canid in the world. In the same year, he was the subject of an episode of the BBC1 genealogy documentary ''Who Do You Think You Are?''.

Norton's chat show, ''The Graham Norton Show'', began on 22 February 2007 on BBC Two. Although in a format that he had not been involved in for 4 years, it is very similar to his previous Channel 4 shows. On 6 October 2009, the show moved to BBC One, in a new one-hour format.

In May 2010, he stood in for Chris Evans' breakfast show on BBC Radio 2. Later that month, it was confirmed that he would be replacing Jonathan Ross's Saturday morning slot on the same station.

In December 2011, the panel show ''Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton'' premiered on BBC America in the time slot immediately following ''The Graham Norton Show''. Recorded in New York, it is one of BBC America's earliest efforts at producing original programming, and is also the first panel game the channel has shown, either of British or American origin.

In January 2012, he called on listeners to his Radio 2 show to help find his car hours after it was stolen. He called it "The Great Car Hunt" and told listeners to “Keep your eyes out for it. It was filthy by the way."

Eurovision[link]

Norton hosted the first annual ''Eurovision Dance Contest'' alongside Claudia Winkleman which was held on 1 September 2007 in London, England. The format was based on the BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing'' and the EBU's ''Eurovision Song Contest''. Norton and Winkleman also hosted the 2008 Contest in Glasgow, Scotland.

In October 2008, it was confirmed by the BBC that Norton would replace Terry Wogan as the BBC's presenter for the UK heats of the ''Eurovision Song Contest'', in a show to be called ''Your Country Needs You''.

On 5 December 2008 it was announced that Norton would also take over from Wogan as the presenter of the main Eurovision Song Contest. The 54th Eurovision Song Contest was held in the Olimpiyskiy (Olympic) Stadium, Moscow on 16 May 2009.

Norton's jokes during his debut received some positive reviews from the British media. ''The Guardian'' noted his comments on Iceland's entry, which finished in second place, had "rooted around in a cupboard and found an old bridesmaid dress from 1987" and the Armenian singers, who finished in tenth place, were sporting traditional dress, "which would be true if you come from the village where Liberace is the mayor."

His comment “The bad news is you’re about to watch Albania. She’s only 17 so please bear that in mind. Where was her mother? Why didn’t she step in and say no?” which was made just before Albanian singer Kejsi Tola was set to take the stage dubbed an insult by many, sent ripples of outrage through not only Albania, but also the Albanian population in Britain. He then announced that Albania should get no points and that he didn't care what anybody else thought. There was a petition circling the net calling for a formal apology from Norton. The petition, which called his comment “very rude and insulting,” had drawn over 1,000 signatures. He never responded.

In 2011, he snarked that if Jedward's entry into the competition that year won, the twins would never sleep again. In the end, they were eighth. Earlier in that year's televote, he joked "Quick, someone take a picture", when The British entry that year went temporarily in the lead early on after high votes from Russia(4), Bulgaria(12) and Italy(10). In the end, the song dropped down the 11th, earning 100 points. Very annoyed, Norton claimed 'We were better than Jedward'.

In 2012, Norton joked about the Spanish singer Pastora Soler and the economic situation of Spain. This statements unleashed many bad reviews on the internet. Norton joked about Rona Nishliu (the singer of Albania) too. He said that Rona was a singer that "she shout a lot".

Other[link]

In July 2000 Graham was one of three judges of the Miss Lesbian Beauty Contest 2000 held at The Talk of London, Drury Lane. The contest was won by 42 year old Carol Hutchins who wowed the audience with her sit-down comedy routine from a wheelchair. Graham described Carol as a "very bright, funny lady."

Graham Norton played Mr. Puckov in the 2006 American comedy spoof film ''Another Gay Movie''. In 2007, Norton played Taylor in the romantic comedy film ''I Could Never Be Your Woman''.

Norton was involved in a high-publicity advertising campaign for the UK National Lottery as an animated unicorn, the stooge to a character based on Lady Luck (played by Fay Ripley). He has also advertised McVitie's biscuits.

In 2007, Norton featured in Girls Aloud and Sugababes' Comic Relief video for the single "Walk This Way."

In January 2009, Norton made his West End stage debut in a revival of ''La Cage Aux Folles'' at the Playhouse Theatre.

Since 2009, Norton has been the host of the comedy game-show ''Most Popular'' on US cable television channel WE tv.

Norton currently writes an advice column in ''The Daily Telegraph'' newspaper. In October 2010, these columns were made into a book entitled ''Ask Graham'', published by John Blake Publishing.

Personal life[link]

Norton has stated that he felt "out of place" growing up in Ireland; his family are Protestant yet the Republic of Ireland is overwhelmingly Catholic. Norton took part in the TV programme, ''Who Do You Think You Are?'', to trace his ancestry. It was discovered that his family were originally planters sent over from England to take over Irish land. Some members of his family had fought for the British Monarchy during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and taken part in a massacre of Catholics in Carnew Castle. Another member of his family was later killed in battle by the United Irishmen. Norton said he was comforted to find out that his family had resided in Ireland for generations.

In 1989 while living in London, Norton was mugged, beaten and stabbed by a group of attackers on the street. He says he lost half his blood and nearly died, and he was hospitalised for two and a half weeks.

Norton is openly gay.

Norton owns a holiday home in Ahakista, County Cork, which is near to where he grew up, in Bandon. The house has a private beach and overlooks Dunmanus Bay.

TV appearances[link]

Main presenting credits[link]

''Carnal Knowledge'' (TV series, co-presenter) (1996, 27 one hour shows)

''Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment''

''So Graham Norton'' (1998–2002)

''V Graham Norton'' (2002–2003)

''NY Graham Norton'' (2004)

''The Graham Norton Effect'' (2004–2005)

''Graham Norton's Bigger Picture'' (2005–2006)

''Strictly Dance Fever'' (2005–2006)

BBC/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical theater talent searches (2006–present)

* ''How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?'' (2006)

* ''Any Dream Will Do'' (2007)

* ''I'd Do Anything'' (2008)

* ''Over the Rainbow'' (2010)

''The Big Finish'' (2006–)

''When Will I Be Famous?'' (2007)

''The Graham Norton Show'' (2007–present)

''The British Academy Television Awards'' (2007)

''Live Earth'' (2007)

''Eurovision Dance Contest'' (2007)

''The One and Only'' (2008)

''Eurovision Dance Contest'' (2008)

''Eurovision: Your Country Needs You'' (2009–present)

''Eurovision Song Contest'' (UK commentator, 2009–present)

''Totally Saturday'' (2009)

''Most Popular'' (2009–present)

''Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton'' (BBC America, 2011–present)

Other television credits[link]

''Rex the Runt'': A Crap Day Out ''Absolutely Fabulous'': Gay ''Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)

!Year!!Title!!Character!!Broadcaster
1996–98	''Father Ted'':	* Hell	* Flight into Terror	* The Mainland	Father Noel Furlong	Channel 4
rowspan=3	2001	|	The Plants voice	BBC
''Rex the Runt'': Patio	Osvalde Halitosis voice
''The Kumars at No. 42''	Himself
2002	|	Himself	BBC
rowspan=4	2007	Who Do You Think You Are?'' ||	Himself	BBC
''Saving Planet Earth''	*Saving Wolves	Himself	BBC
''Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List''
''Robbie the Reindeer'' in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind	Computer voice

Radio[link]

''Just a Minute''

Sitting in for Steve Wright August 2009 BBC Radio 2

Sitting in for Chris Evans May /July 2010 BBC Radio 2

On 2 October 2010, he began his weekly BBC Radio 2 Saturday show taking over from Jonathan Ross. The show airs from 10.00am-1.00pm and combines a mixture of music, chat and celebrity guests.

2011/12 Radio 2 Saturday mornings

Filmography[link]

''Stargay'' ''Another Gay Movie'' ''I Could Never Be Your Woman''

!Year!!Title!!Character!!Production
1999	|	Graham Solex	Canal+
2006	|	Mr. Puckov	Luna Pictures
2007	|	Taylor	The Weinstein Company

Stand-Up videos[link]

''Live At The Roundhouse'' (19 November 2001)

Awards[link]

1999 : Gaytime Award for ''Gay Entertainer of the Year''

2000 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance – ''So Graham Norton''

2001 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance - ''So Graham Norton''

2001 : RTS Television Award for Best Presenter – ''So Graham Norton''

2001 : TRIC Award TV Personality of the Year

2002 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Perfromance - ''So Graham Norton''

2011 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance – ''The Graham Norton Show''

2012 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance - ''The Graham Norton Show''

References[link]

External links[link]

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name	Sue Perkins
birth name	Susan Elizabeth Perkins
birth date	September 22, 1969
birth place	East Dulwich, London, England
nationality	English
genre	Comedy
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Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969, East Dulwich, London) is an English comedian, broadcaster and conductor.

Education[link]

Perkins was educated at Croham Hurst School, an independent school for girls in Croydon in South London, at the same time as the ''BBC Breakfast News'' presenter Susanna Reid. She later studied English at New Hall at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1990. While at Cambridge, she was a member of the Footlights, where she met Mel Giedroyc. She was Footlights president during the academic year 1990/91.

Mel and Sue[link]

Perkins first came to notice with Mel Giedroyc as ''Mel and Sue''. The duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993. After a few years writing for French & Saunders (and occasionally appearing on their BBC series), they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called ''Light Lunch'', and an early evening version, ''Late Lunch''.

Television[link]

Perkins has been a presenter on Channel 4's ''RI:SE'' and appeared in ''Celebrity Big Brother'' during 2002 in aid of a number of charities. During the series she had some notable dancing moments with eventual winner Mark Owen of Take That. She has made numerous appearances on BBC TV shows ''Have I Got News for You'', ''Mock the Week'', ''QI'', ''Room 101'', ''Celebrity Weakest Link'', ''Question Time'' and ''Newsnight''; she has often joked that the BBC pay her a regular wage for "blabbering on random shows". She made notable appearances as a 'field reporter' for Armando Iannucci vehicle ''The Saturday Night Armistice''.

Perkins hosted ''Good Evening, Rockall'' (second series), a short-lived news orientated panel game shown on BBC Choice. She appeared in BBC Four's 2006 language quiz show ''Never Mind the Full Stops''. She was also a team captain on ITV's ''Win, Lose or Draw Late'', appeared on ''Celebrity MasterChef'' in 2006, performed in early 2007 on ''Celebrity Poker'' and ''News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald'' in 2007.

In April 2007, she participated in ''Edwardian Supersize Me'' for the BBC with food critic Giles Coren, spending a week eating the equivalent of a wealthy Edwardian couple's food, whilst wearing a corset. The duo returned, in May 2008, with a series called ''The Supersizers Go...'' where they live, for a week, eating food based upon certain diets. The first programme saw them survive for a week on WWII rations, the second covers the English Restoration period, the third the Victorian period, the fourth the Seventies, the fifth the Elizabethan period and the sixth the Regency period.

In August and September 2008, Sue Perkins appeared in the reality TV talent show television series ''Maestro'' on BBC Two. During the series, a group of eight celebrities attempted (until eliminated) to learn to conduct orchestral, choral and operatic music. Perkins won the competition with her mentor conductor Jason Lai. She then conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra at ''Proms in the Park'', part of the BBC's ''Last Night of the Proms''. Her ''Maestro'' section of the programme was broadcast live from Hyde Park, London on 13 September 2008, in front of a crowd of more than 30,000. During the programme, Perkins conducted three pieces, two of them with soprano soloist Lesley Garrett.

Also in 2008 Perkins narrated the series ''....and Proud'' on Virgin 1.

Sue Perkins appeared in a second 'Supersizers' series called ''The Supersizers Eat...'' with Giles Coren which aired on BBC Two in June and July 2009. In September and October 2009 she hosted the Channel 4 panel game ''The Big Food Fight''.

In March 2010, Perkins appeared in a three part mini-series broadcast on BBC Two ''A Band for Britain'' in which she attempted to revive the fortunes of the ''Dinnington Colliery Band''.

In 2010, she appeared on ''QI'', where host Stephen Fry embarrassed himself by absent-mindedly calling her Mel. Alan Davies responded by calling him Hugh.

Perkins filmed two series which aired on BBC Two in 2010: ''Giles and Sue Live The Good Life'', with Giles Coren, and ''The Great British Bake Off'', a cookery competition series which she co-hosts with Mel Giedroyc, each episode looking at a different aspect of baking. The latter had a second series in 2011. She also narrated the 2011 game show ''Don't Scare the Hare''. With Alison Steadman and Stephen Mangan she presented a mini-series on BBC Two called ''All Roads Lead Home'', in October 2011, based on navigating short rambles, or nature walks, solely with the use of natural clues.

She presented and performed ''Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas'', a sixty minute documentary for BBC Two broadcast on 30 December 2011 which examined the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife, Catherine.

Conducting[link]

Following her success in ''Maestro'', Perkins guest-conducted the London Gay Symphony Orchestra on 11 October 2009, at St Anne's Church Garden in Soho. She conducted two pieces, the Simpsons Theme by Danny Elfman, and the William Tell Overture by Rossini, the latter for the first time.

As part of ''A Band for Britain'', Perkins conducted the Dinnington Colliery Band at the DW Stadium playing the National Anthem for a Four Nations rugby match, and also conducted them together with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band at Sheffield City Hall.

Perkins again conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra at the first ever Comedy Prom at the Royal Albert Hall during 2011 Prom season.

Radio[link]

Perkins is a panel member of Radio 4's ''The News Quiz'' and has made regular appearances on BBC Radio 2's ''It's Been a Bad Week''. She is also a frequent panelist on another popular Radio 4 show, ''Just a Minute'': in the 2012 television version of that series, she appeared in 4 out of the 10 episodes (more than any other panellist except Paul Merton who appeared in all 10) and won on all 4 occasions.

She was the chairman of BBC Radio 4's ''The 99p Challenge'' until the show finished in 2004. Perkins appeared every day in the last half hour of Mark Radcliffe's afternoon radio show on BBC Radio 2, when he sat in for Steve Wright.

Since 2006 Perkins has been a panellist on a Radio 4 show, ''The Personality Test'', a quiz show about the host, presented by a different host each week. Past hosts include Gyles Brandreth and Rick Wakeman, and other panelists include Robin Ince, Lucy Porter, and Will Smith. Perkins is a regular cast member of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show.

While presenting a Radio 4 documentary on the Lake District's competition the "World's Biggest Liar", she ended up winning it.

In December 2008 she was a guest on ''Private Passions'', the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.

Perkins also chairs the Radio 4 panel game ''Dilemma'', in which four humorous guests discussed moral conundrums she provided for them. The first series ran for six episodes on Sunday evenings from 13 November to 18 December 2011.

Books[link]

Perkins was a judge for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Edinburgh Festival appearances[link]

Perkins has performed two stand-up comedy solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Spectacle Wearer Of The Year 2006" in 2005 and "The Disappointing Second Show" in 2006.

Personal life [link]

Perkins lives in London and Penzance.

She was outed as a lesbian in 2002 by her ex-girlfriend Rhona Cameron during Cameron's appearance on ITV's ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!''. Perkins had a four-year relationship with artist Kate Williams, until early 2012.

References[link]

External links [link]

Official MySpace (does not appear to be active)

Official Mel and Sue website (has not been updated in many years)

Sue Perkins at Biogs.com

Sue Perkins Management - Debi Allen

Sue Perkins Twitter feed

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}} Dame Margaret Natalie "Maggie" Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress. She has had an extensive career both on screen and in live theatre, and is known as one of Britain's pre-eminent actors. She made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 60 years. She has won numerous awards for acting, both for the stage and for film, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards and two special awards including the Bafta Fellowship in 1996), two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, two SAG Awards and a Tony Award. Dame Maggie is the only actor ever to win this collective of awards and is one of the most successful and acclaimed actors of the film era.

Her critically acclaimed films include ''Othello'' (1965), ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' (1969), ''Travels with My Aunt'' (1972), ''California Suite'' (1978), ''Clash of the Titans'' (1981), ''A Room with a View'' (1985) and ''Gosford Park'' (2001). She has also appeared in a number of widely-popular films, including ''Hook'' (1991), ''Sister Act'' (1992) and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the ''Harry Potter'' film series. She currently stars in the critically acclaimed drama ''Downton Abbey'' as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she has won an Emmy.

Early life[link]

Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, London. She is the daughter of Margaret Smith (née Hutton), a Glasgow-born secretary, and Nathaniel Smith, a Newcastle upon Tyne-born public health pathologist who worked at Oxford University. She has older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian, who went to architecture school. Smith studied at Oxford High School.

Career[link]

Smith began her career at the Oxford Playhouse with Frank Shelley and made her first film in 1956. She became a fixture at the Royal National Theatre in the 1960s, most notably for playing Desdemona in ''Othello'' opposite Laurence Olivier and winning her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1965 film version.

She appeared with Ronnie Barker at the Oxford Playhouse in the play ''The Housemaster'' and various others. Barker did not think much of her, saying "she only had two styles-either grand and rather camp, or sharp cockney".

In 1969, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'', a role originally created on stage by Vanessa Redgrave in 1966 in London. (Zoe Caldwell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play when she created the role in New York.) Smith was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in ''California Suite,'' acting opposite Michael Caine. Afterwards, on hearing that Michael Palin was about to embark on a film (''The Missionary'') with Smith, Caine is supposed to have humorously telephoned Palin, warning him that she would steal the film. She also starred with Palin in the black comedy ''A Private Function'' in 1984.

Smith appeared in ''Sister Act'' in 1992 and had a major role in the 1999 film ''Tea with Mussolini,'' where she appeared as the formidable Lady Hester. Indeed, many of her more mature roles have centred on what Smith refers to as her "gallery of grotesques", playing waspish, sarcastic or plain rude characters. Recent examples of this would include the judgmental sister in ''Ladies in Lavender'' and the cantankerous snob Constance, Countess of Trentham, in ''Gosford Park'', for which she received another Oscar nomination.

Other notable roles include the querulous Charlotte Bartlett in the Merchant-Ivory production of ''A Room with a View'', a vivid supporting turn as the aged Duchess of York in Ian McKellen's film of ''Richard III'', and a little known but powerful performance as Lila Fisher in the 1973 film ''Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing'' with Timothy Bottoms. Due to the international success of the ''Harry Potter'' movies, she is now widely known for playing the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall, opposite Daniel Radcliffe, with whom she had previously worked in the 1999 BBC television adaptation of ''David Copperfield'', playing Betsey Trotwood. She also plays an older Wendy in the Peter Pan movie ''Hook'', and Mrs. Medlock in ''The Secret Garden''. In 2010, she appeared as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the first and second series of the British period drama ''Downton Abbey''.

She appeared in numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, to acclaim from 1976 through to 1980. These roles included Queen Elizabeth in ''Richard III'', Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Virginia Woolf in ''Virginia'', and countless lead roles with long-time Stratford icon Brian Bedford including the Noël Coward comedy ''Private Lives''.

On stage, her many roles have included the title character in the stage production of Alan Bennett's ''The Lady in the Van'' and starring as Amanda in a revival of ''Private Lives''. She won a Tony Award in 1990 for Best Actress in a Play for Peter Shaffer's ''Lettice and Lovage'', in which she starred as an eccentric tour guide in an English stately home. In 2007, she appeared in Edward Albee's ''The Lady from Dubuque'' at Theatre Royal Haymarket.

She appeared in a 1954 BBC television programme, ''Oxford Accents'', produced by the late Ned Sherrin. She was one of the performers, playing several roles, in ''New Faces of 1956'' at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from 14 June to 22 December 1956. She was "in Orange" in the musical comedy ''Share My Lettuce'', based on the book by Bamber Gascoigne, that opened at the Lyric Hammersmith on 21 August 1957. With Anthony Bowles as musical director, it transferred to the Comedy Theatre on 25 September 1957 and to the Garrick Theatre on 27 January 1958. Smith's musical numbers in this performance included: ''Love's Cocktail'' (solo), ''On Train He'll Come'' (solo), ''Party Games'' (solo), ''Bubble Man'' (with Kenneth Williams) and ''Menu'' (with Kenneth Williams). Eight photos from this performance as well as an article on Smith appeared in the November 1957 issue of ''Theatre World'' magazine. One of Smith's earliest acting citations was as nominee for Most Promising Newcomer to Film of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for ''Nowhere To Go'' in 1958. In Hollywood, Smith was a nominee for the Golden Globe Awards New Star of the Year (Actress) in 1964 for her performance in ''The V.I.P.s''. In 2012, she earned another Golden Globe Awards nomination (her ninth) for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for series 1 of ''Downton Abbey''. Smith won her second ''Emmy Award'' for this role.

In 2012, Maggie played Muriel in the British comedy ''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel''. She is also starring as Jean Horton in ''Quartet'', based on Ronald Harwood's play, directed by Dustin Hoffman.

Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours and was raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours.

In 1986, she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Bath. She also received honorary degrees from the University of St Andrews in 1971 and the University of Cambridge in 1995.

Personal life[link]

Smith has been married twice. She married actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967 at Greenwich Register Office. The couple had two sons: actors Chris Larkin (born in 1967) and Toby Stephens (born in 1969), and divorced on 6 May 1974. Smith is a grandmother via both her sons.

She married playwright Beverley Cross on 23 August 1975 at the Guildford Register Office; he died on 20 March 1998.

In 2007, the ''Sunday Telegraph'''s Mandrake diary disclosed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She was subsequently reported to have made a full recovery.

Filmography[link]

Television and cinema[link]

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1958		Bridget Howard	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer
1962		Chantal
1963	''''	Miss Mead	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
1964	''''	Philpot
''Young Cassidy''	Nora	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1967	''''	Sarah Watkins
1968	''Hot Millions''	Patty Terwilliger Smith
1969	''''	Jean Brodie
1969	''Oh! What a Lovely War''	Music Hall Star
1972		Aunt Augusta
1973	''Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing''	Lila Fisher
1974	''''	Gwendylspire Boughgrough
1975	''''	Ms. Collins
1976	''Murder by Death''	Dora Charleston
		Miss Bowers	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
	Diana Barrie
		Lois Heidler	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
	Thetis	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
		Daphne Castle
''''	Lady Isabel Ames
	Miss Anderson
	''''	Joyce Chilvers	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
''Lily in Love''	Lily Wynn	Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
1985	''''	Charlotte Bartlett
	''''	Judith Hearne	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
	Susan	Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
1991		Wendy Darling
	''Sister Act''	Reverend Mother
''Memento Mori''	Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew	Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
	''Suddenly, Last Summer''	Violet Venable
''Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit''	Reverend Mother
''''	Mrs. Medlock	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1995		Duchess of York
1996	''''	Gunilla Garson Goldberg	National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
1997		Aunt Lavinia Penniman	Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
		Lily Gale
''''	Lady Myra Naylor
''Tea with Mussolini''	Lady Hester Random	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
	Queen Alexandra
	Betsey Trotwood
	''Gosford Park''	Constance, Countess of Trentham
		Professor Minerva McGonagall	Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
	Caro Eliza Bennett
2003	''My House in Umbria''	Emily Delahunty
		Professor Minerva McGonagall
''Ladies in Lavender''	Janet Widdington	Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actress
	''Keeping Mum''	Grace Hawkins
	Professor Minerva McGonagall
		Professor Minerva McGonagall
''Becoming Jane''	Lady Gresham
''Capturing Mary''	Mary Gilbert
		Professor Minerva McGonagall
	Linnet Oldknow
2010	''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang''	Mrs. Docherty
2010–present	''Downton Abbey''		Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieTV Times Award for Best ActressNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated — Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best ActressNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Monte Carlo Television Festival Award for Outstanding ActressNominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
	''Gnomeo & Juliet''	Lady Bluebury
''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''	Professor Minerva McGonagall
	''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel''	Muriel Donnelly
	Jean Horton	''post-production''

Theatre roles[link]

''Twelfth Night'', Oxford Playhouse, 1952

''He Who Gets Slapped'', Clarendon Press Institute, 1952

''Cinderella'', Oxford Playhouse, 1952

''Rookery Nook'', Oxford Playhouse, 1953

''The Housemaster'', Oxford Playhouse, 1953

''Cakes and Ale'' (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1953

''The Love of Four Colonels'', Oxford Playhouse, 1953

''The Ortolan'', Maxton Hall, 1954

''Don’t Listen Ladies'', Oxford Playhouse, 1954

''The Government Inspector'', Oxford Playhouse, 1954

''The Letter'', Oxford Playhouse, 1954

''A Man About The House'', Oxford Playhouse, 1954

''On the Mile'' (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1954

''Oxford Accents'', New Watergate Theatre, London, 1954

''Theatre 1900'', Oxford Playhouse, 1954

''Listen to the Wind'', Oxford Playhouse, 1954

''The Magistrate'', Oxford Playhouse, 1955

''The School For Scandal'', Oxford Playhouse, 1955

''New Faces'' (revue), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1956

''Share My Lettuce'' (revue), Lyric Hammersmith and Comedy Theatre, 1957

''The Stepmother'', St. Martin's Theatre, 1958

''The Double Dealer'', Old Vic, 1959

''As You Like It'', Old Vic, 1959

''Richard II'', Old Vic, 1959

''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', Old Vic, 1959

''What Every Woman Knows'', Old Vic, 1960

''Rhinoceros'', Strand Theatre, 1960

''Strip the Willow'', UK Tour, 1960

''The Rehearsal'', Bristol Old Vic and Globe Theatre, 1961

''The Private Ear'' and ''The Public Eye'', Globe Theatre, 1962

''Mary, Mary'', Queen's Theatre, 1963

''The Recruiting Officer'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1963

''Othello'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964

''The Master Builder'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964

''Hay Fever'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964

''Much Ado About Nothing'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965

''Trelawney of the Wells'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965

''Miss Julie'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966

''Black Comedy'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966

''A Bond Honoured'', National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966

''The Country Wife'', Chichester Festival Theatre, 1969

''The Beaux Stratagem'', National Theatre/Old Vic and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1970

''Hedda Gabler'', National Theatre/Cambridge Theatre, 1970

''Design For Living'', Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1971

''Private Lives'', Queen's Theatre, 1972

''Peter Pan'', London Coliseum, 1973

''Snap'', Vaudeville Theatre, 1974

''Private Lives'', US tour and 46th Street Theatre, New York, 1975 [Tony nomination]

''The Way of the World'', Stratford, Canada, 1976

''Antony and Cleopatra'', Stratford, Canada, 1976

''Three Sisters'', Stratford, Canada, 1976

''The Guardsman'', Stratford, Canada and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1976

''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Stratford, Canada amd Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1977

''Richard III'', Stratford, Canada, 1977

''As You Like It'', Stratford, Canada, 1977

''Hay Fever'', Stratford, Canada, 1977

''Macbeth'', Stratford, Canada, 1978

''Private Lives'', Stratford, Canada, 1978

''Night and Day'', Phoenix Theatre, Washington D.C. and ANTA Playhouse, New York, 1979 [Tony nomination]

''Much Ado About Nothing'', Stratford, Canada, 1980

''The Seagull'', Stratford, Canada, 1980

''Virginia'', Stratford, Canada, 1980 and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1981

''The Way of the World'', Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1984

''The Interpreters'', Queen's Theatre, 1985

''The Infernal Machine'', Lyric Hammersmith, 1986

''Coming Into Land'', National Theatre/Lyttelton, 1987

''Lettice and Lovage'', Globe Theatre, 1987

''Lettice and Lovage'', Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1990 [Tony win]

''The Importance of Being Earnest'', Aldwych Theatre, 1993

''Three Tall Women'', Wyndham's Theatre, 1994 and 1995

''Talking Heads'', Chichester Festival Theatre and Comedy Theatre, 1996

''A Delicate Balance'', Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1997

''The Lady in the Van'', Queen's Theatre, 1999

''The Breath of Life'', Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2002

''Talking Heads'', Australian tour, 2004

''The Lady From Dubuque'', Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2007

Awards and nominations[link]

See also[link]

Tale Spinners For Children

University College Players

References[link]

External links[link]

''You have to laugh'' – The Guardian, 20 November 2004, in-depth interview and profile.

Maggie Smith at Emmys.com

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