Judi Dench net worth: The star amassed huge fortune after debuting as a snail

Dame Judi Dench, 86, is now appearing in the new BBC series Who Do You Think You Are where she discovers she has royal connections. But after a successful acting career, how much money does the star have in her bank account?

Judi’s fortune is attributed to her 60 years acting career.

The star has appeared in more than 65 movies. 

Judi Dench was born in Heworth, York, but moved to London as a young girl to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Her first stage debut was at the age of five wearing a snail costume. “All I had to do was crawl across the stage under this shell. When my parents came to it, I can remember standing up — and I can also remember somebody at the side of the stage saying ‘Get down! Get down!’ My first critic,” she said.

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After that, her first professional stage appearance was in 1957 at the Royal Court Theater in Liverpool playing Hamlet.

Judi’s debut was with the same production a few years later at the West End. 

In 1964, Judi appeared in “Talking to a Stranger” for which she won her first BAFTA for Best Actress.

The actress has been nominated for the Academy Award seven times and finally won the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. 

Since 2010, she has been in a relationship with conservationist David Mills.

In August, Queen Letizia of Spain awarded her with the Masters of Cinema Awards in Mallorca, where the pair looked delighted to meet each other. 

A few years ago, the actress was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a degenerative eye condition which forced her to stop driving.

“I can’t read the paper now, I can’t do the crossword, I can’t read a book. I’ve had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again. So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won’t notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!” she admitted in 2017.