Judi Dench

1977 - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for Macbeth. They write that Esmond's feelings of betrayal were genuine despite the unconventional nature of the marriage. 1980 - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for Juno and the Paycock. The biographies describe the marriage as a relatively happy one, based on mutual respect and affection and their shared love of theatre. 1982 - London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for The Importance of Being Earnest and A Kind of Alaska. Since the deaths of Esmond and Olivier, biographers have written that Olivier was bisexual for his entire life, and that his marriage with Esmond was convenient for both of them, as she was also bisexual. 1984 - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for Pack of Lies. She did not remarry, and died in Wimbledon, London.

1987 - Laurence Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award and London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for Antony and Cleopatra. In her later years, Esmond discussed the bitterness she still felt towards Olivier and her feeling that she had sacrificed her career so that he could further his own, only to find herself cruelly discarded. 1996 - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Entertainment for A Little Night Music. Her acting appearances grew more sporadic with the passage of time and she made her final film appearance in 1955. 1996 - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for Absolute Hell. She starred in the Broadway production of The Morning Star in 1942, a production noted for the acting debut of Gregory Peck. 1997 - London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for Amy's View. She returned briefly to acting and appeared in such popular films as Journey for Margaret, The Pied Piper and Random Harvest (all 1942) and The White Cliffs of Dover (1944).

In recent interviews she claimed to be returning to the role for the next James Bond film tentatively titled James Bond 21. Pressed by Olivier, who was anxious to marry Leigh, she eventually agreed and they were divorced in 1940. In 2003 she also lent her voice in the James Bond video game, Everything or Nothing. Esmond withstood the publicity of Olivier's affair with Vivien Leigh and did not seek a divorce. In 1995 she took over the role of M in the James Bond franchise and has starred in the films:. Her career continued to ascend while Olivier's own career languished, but when his career began to show promise after a couple of years, she began to refuse roles. She is often compared and contrasted with Dame Maggie Smith, another British actress of the same generation. She also appeared in two Broadway productions with Olivier - Private Lives in 1931 with Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, and The Green Bay Tree in 1933.

As she enters her seventies, Dame Judi remains probably the biggest draw on the London stage. Returning to the United Kingdom she made her film debut with a starring role in an early Alfred Hitchcock film The Skin Game (1931), and over the next few years appeared in several British and Hollywood films, including Thirteen Women (1932). She has also appeared with success on Broadway. Olivier continued to follow Esmond, and after proposing to her several times, she agreed and the couple were married in 1930. She is a multiple winner of the main awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards. Esmond won rave reviews for her performance. Dame Judi has also made numerous appearances in the West End and with the National Theatre in London. Determined to be near Esmond he travelled to New York where he found work as an actor.

In 1961 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made numerous appearances with the company in Stratford and London over the next two decades, winning several best actress awards. When Bird in the Hand was being staged on Broadway, Esmond was chosen to join the American production - but Olivier was not. She subsequently spent seasons in repetory in Oxford and Nottingham. In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour. Dame Judi received her professional training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made her professional debut as Ophelia in Liverpool in 1957. In 1928 she appeared in the production of Bird in the Hand where she met fellow cast member Laurence Olivier for the first time. In her native United Kingdom, Dame Judi has developed her reputation as arguably the greatest British actress of the post-1945 period primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her main forte throughout her career. In 1925, she starred with her mother in a play Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, and after a few more successful roles, won critical praise for her part as a young suicide in Outward Bound.

Her many television appearances include the series As Time Goes By and the aforementioned A Fine Romance. After reassessing her future and coming to terms with her father's death she studied with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and returned to the West End stage in 1924. She has also occasionally directed plays. When her father died suddenly in 1922 Esmond returned to school and at the time considered abandoning her ambition to act. In 1988 she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE). She made her stage debut playing Wendy to Gladys Cooper's Peter Pan but her success was shortlived. They starred together in a British sitcom, A Fine Romance. While her parents toured with theatre companies, Esmond spent her childhood in boarding schools until she decided at the age of fourteen to become an actress.

In 1971, she married British actor Michael Williams, who died of cancer in 2001. Esmond and Eva Moore. She was born in York as Judith Olivia Dench. Esmond was born in London, England, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Dame Judi Dench (born December 9, 1934) is a renowned British stage, film and television actress. Jill Esmond (January 26, 1908 – July 28, 1990) was a British actress. 1966 - Won BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Four in the Morning.

1967 - Won BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for Talking to a Stranger. 1987 - Won BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Room with a View. Brown. 1998 - Nominated Academy Award for Best Actress and won Golden Globe for Mrs.

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