10 More Actors You Didn't Know Played The Same Character In Different Movies
4. Judi Dench (Queen Victoria) - Mrs. Brown/Victoria & Abdul
As your writer has already alluded to over the course of this list, some actors are simply born to play certain famous faces from the very real past. And in the case of the formidable Dame Judi Dench, the role of the Queen of England seems to fit her like a regal glove.
Yet, while her only Academy Award win to date may have come thanks to her show-stealing turn as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, this isn't actually the Queenie that Dench has spent the most time bringing to life on a movie screen.
After picking up her first Oscar nod for her work as Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, playing the monarch after she'd recently become widowed and exploring her relationship with Scottish servant John Brown, Dench would return to the role a whopping twenty years later in Victoria & Abdul.
This flick would once again delve into Victoria's relationship with a servant, this time by the name of Abdul Karim. Her return to the role may not have generated the same buzz as her initial outing, but it still earned Dench an impressive 12th Golden Globe nomination.