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"With M, she's always slightly changed in each film. In the first one naturally I would have thought out why and how this woman has gotten to this part and why she’s head of MI6. Each time you come to do it you actually learn a little bit more about her, and you supply a little bit more about her. So there's a lot more of the relationship between her and Bond beforehand that goes into this one, but it adds a bit more because there's more to tell."
― Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934),[1] is an English actress and was notable for being the first female M in the James Bond film series. Her first appearance as the chief of MI6 was in GoldenEye (1995), a role she continued to play until Spectre (2015). To date, she is the longest-serving cast member in the franchise, and the only one to appear in both the original movies and the reboot series.

Bond Involvement[]

Everything or Nothing[]

In early 2004 Electronic Arts' video game Everything or Nothing presented an essemble of celebrities and had a script by the veteran screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. Returning along with John Cleese as "Q" were Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Dame Judi Dench as "M", and Richard Kiel as Jaws.[2] This was Dench's fifth official role as M. All cast members ended contributing generously with their likenesses provided thanks to EA's electronic "cyberscanning" process.[2]

Bond Filmography[]

Year Title Role Other notes
1995 GoldenEye (film) M Released
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (film) M Released
1999 The World Is Not Enough (film) M Released
2002 Die Another Day (film) M Released
2003 Everything or Nothing M Released
2005 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent M Released
2006 Casino Royale (film) M Released
2008 Quantum of Solace (film) M Released
2008 Quantum of Solace (video game) M Released
2010 Blood Stone M Released
2010 GoldenEye 007 (2010 game) M Released
2012 Skyfall (film) M Released
2012 007 Legends M Released
2012 Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 Herself Released
2015 Spectre (film) M Released (on video tape)

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • Dench had a longtime, close friendship with the late Tim Pigott-Smith, who portrayed the Foreign Secretary in Quantum of Solace, alongside Dench.
  • Happens that Dench wasn't best pleased when her character was killed off in the movies, she said "I have played M three more times and was not best pleased when they killed me off in Skyfall."[3]

References[]

  1. "Entertainment: Hollywood's premier Dame", BBC News, 24 February 2002. Retrieved on 13 January 2012. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hans ten Cate. Daily Llama - NEWS 2003 (en). Daily Llama. Archived from the original on 2024-01-23.
  3. Rob Leigh. Judi Dench wasn't "best pleased" when James Bond character M was killed off (en). The Mirror. Retrieved on 2024-01-25.

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