Judi Dench Award. In 1989, Judi Dench starred in David Tucker's Behaving Badly for Channel 4, based on Catherine Heath's novel of the same name. After the long period between James Bond films "Licence to Kill" (1989) and "GoldenEye" (1995), the producers brought in Dench to take over as the role of M, James Bond's boss. The character was reportedly modeled on Dame Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996; Dench became the first woman to portray M, succeeding Robert Brown. The seventeenth spy film in the series and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional
Paul Englishby include "Death Of A Salesman" (starring Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter), "Twelfth Night" (starring Richard Wilson), "Hamlet" (starring David Tennant), "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (starring Judi Dench), "Love's Labour's Lost" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In 2013, Englishby scored Peter Morgan's "The Audience", starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. "The Audience", with Mirren, transferred to Broadway in 2015, with Kristin Scott Thomas taking up the role in the West End. In 2014, Englishby wrote the music for David Hare's "Skylight", starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, which also transferred to Broadway from the West End in 2015. Other