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Dench, Dame Judi Olivia
Dench, Dame Judi Olivia [ Dame Judith Olivia Dench] (1934– ), major English actress whose career has covered a wide variety of parts old and new. She made her first appearance in 1957 at the Old Vic as Ophelia to the Hamlet of John Neville, remaining with the company for four years before joining the RSC to play Anya in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard followed by Isabella in Measure for Measure. She then appeared in her first modern play as Dorcas Bellboys in the 1962 revival of John Whiting's A Penny for a Song. She made another incursion into modern drama in Arbuzov's The Promise in 1967, afterwards scoring a success as Sally Bowles in her first musical, Cabaret (1968). In 1969 she returned to the RSC to play Viola in Twelfth Night, and in 1970 was seen both in the title-role of Shaw's Major Barbara and as the bluestocking Grace Harkaway in Boucicault's London Assurance. A year later she played the title-role in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Other roles with the RSC included Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Lady Macbeth, Millamant in Congreve's The Way of the World, Juno in O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock and, in 1984, Brecht's Mother Courage. Among her roles at the National Theatre were a younger-than-usual Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1982, Cleopatra to Anthony Hopkins's Antony in 1987, and Gertrude in Hamlet in 1989.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dench, Dame Judi Olivia." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dench, Dame Judi Olivia." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DenchDameJudiOlivia.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dench, Dame Judi Olivia." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DenchDameJudiOlivia.html |
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Dench, Dame Judi (Judith) Olivia
Dench, Dame Judi (Judith) Olivia (1934– ) English actress. Dench began her career with the Old Vic (1957–61) before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Victoria in Mrs Brown (1997), and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998). Other films include 84 Charing Cross Road (1986), A Handful of Dust (1987), and Iris (2001).
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"Dench, Dame Judi (Judith) Olivia." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Dench, Dame Judi (Judith) Olivia." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-DenchDameJudiJudithOlivia.html "Dench, Dame Judi (Judith) Olivia." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-DenchDameJudiJudithOlivia.html |
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