Dame Judi Dench is considered to be one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, including several of Shakespeare’s plays.
However, it was a Shakespearean role in a film about the Bard that won her film’s most coveted award – the Oscar (she also won the BAFTA). Playing Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1999) for only a few minutes earned her the Best Supporting Actress statue. In her acceptance speech she said “I feel for eight minutes on the screen, I should only get a little bit of him.” Her understated take on the monarch does set much of the film’s plot in motion.
Dame Judi signed my sketch through the post and sent me a nice complimentary letter.
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Preety neat …a quiker!!! Any spcl pen you use?!?
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Think this is from my biro collection 😉
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Just fantastic! Being from the states and (I feel) somewhat enlightened by British comedy – I just can’t get ‘Yes, Minister’ (and a little ‘To the Manor Born’) out of my mind when I look at this … not that Judi brings this out, it’s the texture and frazzled wit of the strokes that frame Elizabeth’s stoic sternness that gives her a smart and chiseled finish. Classic, dry and utterly English!
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Thanks. I’m from NZ, but you can’t start to draw Judi without bringing out the ‘quintessentially English’ 🙂
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shes lovely, as is your work, writing, and blog 😉 odie and I are happy to follow!!!
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Thank you!
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