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 received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, which was the second of her nine (so far) Academy Award nominations that also include her roles in Mrs Brown, Chocolat, Iris, Mrs Henderson Presents, Notes on a Scandal, and Philomena.
For Disney, 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 Root in Artemis Fowl. She was mentioned in an episode of BUNK'D and in an episode of Jessie.