Judi Dench has spent her entire career abiding by one cardinal rule, but as often tends to be the case, there is always one exception.

It's been nearly two decades since Dame Judi Dench came up with this highly specific idea for a role, and still, it has yet to materialise.

BBC film saw Joan Plowright chat with high-profile friends - The group discussed her husband Lord Laurence Olivier, ageing, ...

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

Have yourself a Jellicle Ball!

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

In a new interview for a BBC tribute to Maggie, Judi revealed that ... in the Harry Potter movies and her incredible 70-year acting career, had been friends with Dench, since the 1950s.