#Judi dench shakespeare in love movie#
Her previous on-screen bard outings include Peter Hall’s 1968 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a 1979 TV movie of Macbeth (opposite McKellen), and a 1978 TV movie of The Comedy of Errors. Last Christmas he directed and starred as Hercule Poirot in a new version of Murder On the Orient Express a followup, Death On the Nile, is currently in pre-production.ĭench, 83, last acted opposite Branagh on stage in a 2015 production of The Winter’s Tale, and also featured in his films of Hamlet and Henry V – and Murder on the Orient Express. Ian McKellen co-stars as the Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated his two narrative poems, and who has frequently been identified as the “Fair Youth” of his sonnets.īranagh, 57, has directed and starred in multiple big screen adaptations of Shakespeare plays, including Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1992), Hamlet (1996), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000) and As You Like It (2006). When orphaned governess Jane Eyre (Wasikowska) arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she. Dame Judi Dench has described Sir Antony Sher as a sublime actor who performed with incredible intensity following his death at the age of 72. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland), Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) and Academy Award winner Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love) star in acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga’s daring new adaptation of the timeless romance. The Royal Shakespeare Company announced the news of his death from cancer. Shakespeare died three years later, aged 52 Hathaway in 1623, aged 67.īranagh directs, from a script by Ben Elton. Dame Judi Dench leads tributes to Sir Antony Sher following his death aged 72. The film reportedly examines their by-then troubled marriage, and their grief at the death of their only son, Hamnet.
The plot involves Shakespeare’s return to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1613 after a devastating fire destroys the Globe theatre.
The film, which will have a one-week awards-qualifying run in the US before the end of this year, before being released more widely in 2019, stars Branagh as Shakespeare and Dench as his wife, Anne Hathaway. A late contender to next year’s Oscar race was announced on Wednesday, as Sony Pictures confirmed their purchase of All Is True, Kenneth Branagh’s latest Shakespearean enterprise.