Judi Dench
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench is an English actress. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actresses, she is noted for her versatile roles on stage and screen. Dench has garnered various accolades th
Dench in March 2023
Dench during an Old Vic tour at Belgrade, Serbia, in 1959
Dench portrayed Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997) and Victoria & Abdul (2017).
Wax statue of Dench as M at Madame Tussauds, London
M (James Bond)
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M is a codename held by a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for the agency known as MI6. Fleming based
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…infrequent – though included supporting roles in major films, such as James Ivory's A Room with a View (1985) – before she rose to international fame as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she went on to play in eight James Bond films until her final cameo appearance in Spectre (2015). An eight-time Academy…
Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey, Fleming's superior at the Naval Intelligence Division and a basis for M.
Bernard Lee portrayed M from 1962 to 1979
Robert Brown portrayed M from 1983 to 1989
Judi Dench portrayed M from 1995 to 2015.