English actress (born 1934)
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She spent decades owning British stages before the rest of the world caught up — then became M, the steely spymaster who could freeze Pierce Brosnan with a look, and suddenly everyone knew the face.
Dench made her professional debut with the Old Vic Company in 1957, cutting her teeth on Shakespeare — Ophelia, Juliet, Lady Macbeth — and winning a BAFTA as Most Promising Newcomer even as theatre remained her center. Her 1968 turn as Sally Bowles in Cabaret drew excellent reviews, and over the next two decades she became a pillar of the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. Television brought her into British living rooms through A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By, but film work stayed sparse until 1995, when GoldenEye cast her as M — a role she'd play in eight Bond films through 2…
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As long as there is a possibility of working I'm not going to retire because if I retire nothing will work any more, and it's hard enough as it is.
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