Editing Judi Dench (section)

=== 1990s: Established actress ===
[[File:Queen Victoria - Winterhalter 1859.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Dench portrayed [[Queen Victoria]] in ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' (1997)]]
After a long gap in the series of [[James Bond films]] following ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' (1989), in ''[[GoldenEye]]'' (1995) the producers brought in Dench to take over as the role of [[M (James Bond)|M]], [[James Bond (literary character)|James Bond]]'s boss. The character was reportedly modeled on Dame [[Stella Rimington]], the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996;<ref>{{cite book |last=West |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel West |title=Historical dictionary of Ian Fleming's world of intelligence: fact and fiction |year=2010 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield|Scarecrow Press]] |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=978-0-7524-2896-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mmi5sfirstspymas00cook/page/45 45] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/mmi5sfirstspymas00cook/page/45}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Rimington |author-link=Stella Rimington |first=Stella |title=Open secret: the autobiography of the former Director-General of MI5 |year=2008 |publisher=[[Arrow Books]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-09-943672-0 |page=244}}</ref> Dench became the first woman to portray M, succeeding [[Robert Brown (British actor)|Robert Brown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookpage.com/0502bp/stella_rimington.html |publisher=BookPage |title=Her majesty's not-so-secret service |access-date=14 November 2006 |first=Jay |last=MacDonald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826194750/http://www.bookpage.com/0502bp/stella_rimington.html |archive-date=26 August 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020430/ai_n12622913 |title=Woman tipped to head MI5 in footsteps of Stella Rimington |work=The Independent (London) |access-date=14 November 2006 |first=Nigel |last=Morris |date=30 April 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013210329/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020430/ai_n12622913 |archive-date=13 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The seventeenth [[spy film]] in the [[James Bond in film|series]] and the first to star [[Pierce Brosnan]] as the fictional [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] officer, ''GoldenEye'' marked the first Bond film made after the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] and the end of the [[Cold War]], which provided the plot's back story. The film earned a worldwide gross of US$350.7 million,<ref name="nos">{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/JamesBond.php|title=Box Office History for James Bond Movies|access-date=18 October 2007|work=The Numbers|publisher=Nash Information Service}}</ref> with critics viewing the film as a modernisation of the series.<ref name="QNetwork">{{cite web|title=GoldenEye|publisher=Qnetwork|url=http://www.qnetwork.com/?page=review&id=348|access-date=27 April 2007|first=James|last=Kendrick|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218211646/http://www.qnetwork.com/index.php?page=review&id=348|archive-date=18 February 2012}}</ref><ref name="variety">{{cite news|title=GoldenEye|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Todd|last=McCarthy|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117904690.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|date=15 November 1995|access-date=18 November 2006|archive-date=13 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013145128/http://variety.com/review/VE1117904690.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> She also starred in BBC1's ''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By]]'', a romantic comedy. Several series of the show were made between 1992 and 2005. In 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''[[A Little Night Music]]'', for which she won an Olivier Award.

In 1997, Dench appeared in her first starring film role as [[Queen Victoria]] in [[John Madden (director)|John Madden]]'s teleplay ''[[Mrs Brown]]'', which depicts Victoria's relationship with her personal servant and [[favourite]] [[John Brown (servant)|John Brown]], played by [[Billy Connolly]]. Filmed with the intention of being shown on [[BBC One]] and on [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]]'s ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'', it was eventually acquired by [[Miramax]] mogul [[Harvey Weinstein]]. Released to generally positive reviews and unexpected commercial success, going on to earn more than $13 million worldwide,<ref>{{cite web|title=Mrs Brown (1997)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_brown|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=17 December 2012}}</ref> the film was screened in the ''[[Un Certain Regard]]'' section at the [[1997 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4836/year/1997.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Mrs Brown |access-date=27 September 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> For her performance, Dench garnered universal acclaim by critics and was awarded her fourth [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|BAFTA]] and first [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] nomination at the [[70th Academy Awards]].<ref name="awards">{{cite web |title=Awards for Judi Dench|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001132/awards|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref> In 2011, while accepting a [[British Film Institute]] Award in London, Dench commented that the project launched her Hollywood career and joked that "it was thanks to Harvey, whose name I have had tattooed on my bum".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/judi-dench-got-fake-tattoo-of-harvey-weinsteins-name-on-her-bum-2017-10|title=Here's the actual story about Judi Dench getting a fake 'tattoo' of Harvey Weinstein's name on her 'bum'|work=Business Insider UK|date=9 October 2017|access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36673739|title=Judi Dench gets first tattoo for her 81st birthday|publisher=BBC News|date=30 June 2016|access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref>

Dench's other film of 1997 was [[Roger Spottiswoode]]'s ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', her second film in the [[James Bond in film|James Bond series]].<ref>{{cite news|title=China Resists Western Efforts to Bond|url=http://www.klast.net/bond/tndnews1.html#yeoh|last=Cohen|first=David|work=[[New York Daily News]]|date=10 March 1997|access-date=6 January 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004225636/http://www.klast.net/bond/tndnews1.html#yeoh|archive-date=4 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=goldeneye.htm|title=GoldenEye|access-date=14 January 2007|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> The same year, Dench reteamed with director John Madden to film ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' (1998), a romantic comedy drama that depicts a love affair involving playwright [[William Shakespeare]], played by [[Joseph Fiennes]], while he was writing the play ''Romeo and Juliet''. On her performance as [[Queen Elizabeth I]], ''[[The New York Times]]'' commented that "Dench's shrewd, daunting Elizabeth is one of the film's utmost treats".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B05E4D9103AF932A25751C1A96E958260|title=FILM REVIEW: Shakespeare Saw a Therapist|date=11 December 1998|access-date=7 October 2013|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The following year, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning both the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Academy Award]] and the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]].<ref name="awards" /> On her Oscar win, Dench joked on-stage, "I feel for eight minutes on the screen, I should only get a little bit of him."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/071-4|title=1998 (71st) Academy Awards|access-date= 14 October 2013|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>

Also in 1999, Dench won the [[Tony Award]] for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in Sir [[David Hare (dramatist)|David Hare]]'s ''[[Amy's View]]''.<ref name="awards" /> The same year, she co-starred along with [[Cher]], [[Joan Plowright]], [[Maggie Smith]], and [[Lily Tomlin]] in [[Franco Zeffirelli]]'s semi-autobiographical period drama ''[[Tea with Mussolini]]'' which tells the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of British and American women, before and during [[World War II]]. 1999 also saw the release of Pierce Brosnan's third Bond film, ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]''. This film portrayed M in a larger role with the villain, Renard, coming back to haunt her when he engineers the murder of her old friend Sir Robert King and seemingly attempts to kill his daughter Elektra.