Dame Judi Dench has received her seventh Oscar nomination for the title role in Philomena, the story of a pregnant unmarried girl in Roman Catholic Ireland. Philomena is forced by the church to relinquish her child for adoption in the US, and later in life goes on a quest to locate the boy. All of Dame Judi Dench’s Oscar nods have come after she reached the age of 60.
According to DAILY UK MAIL, 79-year-old Dame Judi Dench was struggling with age-related mocular degeneration while filming Philomena. Unable to recognize faces or see anything clearly Dame Judi had to learn her script with the aid of a tape-recorder and help from friends who also helped her on the set with walking and keeping her footing.
Dame Judi Dench is of course an English actress who has solid formal training. She was educated at the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Old Vic (similar to Daniel Day Lewis). She has received 10 BAFTA Awards including Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She has starred in numerous theater, TV and film productions, receiving her Best Supporting Oscar in 1999 for her 8 minutes on screen as Queen Elizabeth 1 in Shakespeare in Love. She also won a Broadway Tony Award in 1999 for Best Actress in a play for Amy’s View. She considers her breakthrough role that of Mrs. Brown in 1997 and has become known for playing strong-willed, dignified women of authority such as M in the James Bond films starting in 1995 with Goldeneye with Sean Connery right up to the 2012 Skyfall with Daniel Craig.
Judi Dench became Dame Judi Dench in 1998 when she received the title of Dame Commander Order of the Empire. To read more on Dame Judi you can check out her autobiography And Furthermore, and tune in to the Academy Awards March 2 to see if she nabs the Best Actress Oscar.
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