Judi Dench’s name has an interesting background story. Dench, who plays the eccentric Madame Arcati in the new “Blithe Spirit” movie, said her moniker was revealed to her parents by a 1930s medium.
Dench shared, according to the Guardian: “A very strange thing happened at the time that I was born. My father was a doctor, my mother was from Dublin, and they lived in York. “There was a famous medium.
My father met her a day after I was born. She said to him, ‘I’m very pleased to hear about Judith.’ My parents had no idea what I would be called and so I was called Judith which – fortunately – now I’m never called.” RELATED: Judi Dench Reveals She Saved Pet Goldfish By Doing Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation The actress, who was born in December
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