Dame Judi Dench too has a bad reputation when it comes to giggling!

Veteran actor Judi Dench says she is infamous for having a terrible laugh, that it sometimes gets difficult for her to stop.

The 82-year-old star says she is a serious person but likes a bit of a chuckle here and there, according to Contactmusic.

"I've got a bad reputation for giggling. I mean, I can be a serious person, but I see humour in a great many things. I've always found it quite difficult keeping it straight. I'm a terrible laugher! Somehow not being allowed to go to pieces, such as when I'm acting, makes doing so even more irresistible," says Dench.

The legendary actor admits it was this quality that helped her identify with Queen Victoria.

"I just have to believe that she possessed more humour than we give her credit for, especially in this final part of her life with this wonderful young man, who she could talk to and tell jokes to. That shows such great spirit, doesn't it? And it's something we don't attach to that rather solemn view we have of her," she says.

Dench played the former British monarch in Stephen Frears' Victoria & Abdul, alongside Ali Fazal.