WRITING EXCLUSIVELY FOR HELLO! DAME JUDI DENCH TELLS THE HEARTWARMING STORY OF HER ADOPTED BEAR FINTY — AND HOW YOU CAN HELP THESE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS DAME JUDI DENCH

Dame Judi Dench is one of Britain’s finest actors on stage and screen, winning an Oscar in 1999. She was married for 30 years to fellow actor Michael Williams before his death in 2001 and they had one daughter, Finty, now 51 and also an actress. A friend of the King and Queen, she was made a Dame in 1988.

She has long been committed to animal welfare and has