Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

" The following year Dench earned her sixth Academy nomination and went on to win a BIFA Award and an Evening Standard Award. The Lee Tamahori–directed spy film marked her fourth appearance as MI6 head M and the franchise's last performance by Pierce Brosnan as Bond. So frightened was Judi Dench of singing in public that Judi Dench auditioned from the wings leaving the pianists alone on stage".

She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Over the following few years Judi Dench played in several of Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001.