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Dame Judi Dench honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
| National treasure and legend of the stage and screen Dame Judi Dench was honoured at the European Film Awards in Copenhagen with a Lifetime Achievement Award this weekend. | |
| Dench has innumerable stage credits under her belt, first making a name for herself in Shakespeare productions in the early 1960’s including Henry V, which was her Broadway debut in 1961. Other notable credits include Sally Bowles in the London premiere of Kander and Ebb’s classic musical Cabaret and Esme Allen in Amy’s View in New York, which in 1999 won her a Tony award to add to her record breaking seven Oliviers. |  |
| Dame Judi made her big screen debut in 1964 in The Third Secret and starred in a number of films before achieving worldwide movie stardom in the 1995 Bond film Goldeneye in which she began a long, successful gig as spy boss M. Other hit films include Mrs Brown, Tea with Mussolini, Chocolat, Iris, Ladies in Lavender and Notes on a Scandal. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1998 for eight minutes on screen as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. | |
| Judi, who turns 74 tomorrow, said on Saturday night, "I have been acting for 51 years now, so I hope lifetime achievement means more than 51 years, because I'm about to do a play in my 52nd year. It would be nice to think it's not all over." | |
| The play she speaks of is Yukio Mishima’s Madame de Sade, with performances beginning on 13 March 2009 at the Wyndham’s Theatre. A hard hitting historical drama shifting tickets at an alarming rate, Dame Judi almost certainly has more awards flying her way. It’s safe to say that her career is far from all over. Get your tickets for Madame de Sade at the Wyndham’s Theatre here. | |
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