Judi Dench | Known For: As Time Goes By, On Air For 13 Years

Dame Judi Dench has played some of the most significant characters in Shakespearean plays, including Ophelia, Juliet, and the titular role in Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth, respectively. She knows how to leave a mark everywhere she goes, which is how her fans still remember her for bringing life to Jean Mary Hardcastle in As Time Goes By—a BBC One sitcom that was on the air for 13 years.

Today, Dench’s got a few more wrinkles and fine lines than you’re used to seeing because she is 86 years old. Widowed since 2001, she continues to act with new work in Off the Rails and Belfast coming up.