Actor beats off stiff competition from Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud to be named best of the best by readers of the StageJudi Dench is not an actor who takes bad reviews lying down " "you're an absolute shit," she wrote to one critic of her stage performance last year " but she found herself dumbstruck yesterday after being awarded the ultimate accolade: readers of the Stage newspaper have named her the greatest …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM on December 15, 2010