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Born
December 9, 1934 · York, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Birth name
Judith Olivia Dench

Spouse
Michael Williams(February 5, 1971 – January 11, 2001) (his death, 1 child)

QUOTES:

[on her long marriage to Michael Williams] We were just happy to be in the same room together.

My only regret is that I didn’t have more children.

[in 1994, when asked why A Room with a View (1985) was such a success] I’ve never seen it, so I don’t know. Florence was lovely, of course, and it’s a wonderful love story. I did enjoy doing the part, because Maggie Smith and I were old friends from 1958. We both arrived in Florence on the same day and neither of us had any family with us, so we would spend all day together filming and then go out to dinner together, catching up on our Old Vic days. But I didn’t enjoy working with James Ivory. I didn’t feel that I was on his wavelength and I didn’t feel that he wanted me in the film, I have to say that. I remember doing that scene in the middle of the square where she goes mad and attacks the man selling postcards; James went to see the rushes and told me afterwards that everyone had laughed at it, they’d thought it was very funny. “Well done”, he said to me. I thought perhaps we’d turned the corner but, when I came to post-sync the film, that scene was missing. When I asked why, he told me that Helena Bonham Carter hadn’t been feeling up to it that day, so he’d cut the whole sequence. I don’t know if that was the real reason he cut it – I just don’t know.