Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH DBE FRSA is an English film, stage, and television actress, occasional singer, and author who is well known for her role as M in the James Bond films from 1995 to 2012. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 romantic comedy-drama film Shakespeare in Love.
She has voiced Mrs. Calloway in Home on the Range, the current narrator of Spaceship Earth, and had a cameo as a wealthy woman in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. She will play Commander Julius Root in Artemis Fowl. She was mentioned in an episode of BUNK'D.