MI6 is set to appoint Blaise Metreweli as its first female chief, three decades after Judi Dench's portrayal of 'M' in James ...

A spook for over a quarter of a century, Metreweli was ‘Q’ at the spy agency. Now she’ll be known as ‘C’. Here’s why.

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Even the most highly decorated female spy in history, Virginia Hall, whose intelligence contributions during World War II were instrumental ... was now played by a woman, Judi Dench, and the Bond Girl ...

Years after Judi Dench played James Bond's boss on the big screen, a woman will soon lead the real MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service, for the first time. I spy NPR's Lauren Frayer in London.

Thirty years after Dame Judi Dench first appeared on the silver screen as M, the head of British foreign intelligence agency MI6 in the James Bond universe, reality has finally caught up with fiction.