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
Robert Fox (producer) Hours" with Scott Rudin, directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore; and "Iris" (Miramax/Mirage) directed by Richard Eyre starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent, both of which garnered Oscars in 2003. Other credits include Executive Producer on "Another Country"; a television film of "Suddenly, Last Summer" with Maggie Smith; and "A Month by the Lake" for Miramax starring Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox and Uma Thurman. He co-produced "Notes on a Scandal" for Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Fox is married to Fiona Golfar, with whom he has two children. He