US EditionJudi Dench says vision loss now prevents her from recognizing people: 'I can’t see anymore'
Dame Judi Dench, 90, adapts to age-related macular degeneration by relying on memory and friends as worsening vision disrupts her acting and daily activities.
- In a recent ITV interview, Dame Judi Dench, 90-year-old Oscar-winning actress, said worsening vision from age-related macular degeneration has left her unable to read, watch television or recognize people.
- Medical experts note that age-related macular degeneration gradually blurs central vision and Dench first disclosed the diagnosis years earlier as it worsened.
- To keep working she depends on a photographic memory to retain parts and friends who help rehearse lines repeatedly, which Dench described as essential to coping.
- She has stepped back from acting and told the Chelsea Flower Show she has no acting gigs coming up as appearing on film sets has become difficult.
- She has expressed hope that a proposed machine to teach lines could assist her, and on the Graham Norton Show, she said she hopes to find such a device.
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The Oscar-winning actress, six Bafta, two Golden Globes and a Tony Judi Dench recently shared with the British media ITV News that she can no longer see.
Legendary British actress Dame Judi Dench has revealed the sad reason she has been retiring from film and television in recent years. At the age of 90, the actress who began her career in 1957 as Ophelia in 'Hamlet' and rose to fame as M in the 'James Bond' series, is facing a serious health problem that is preventing her from working. During a prolific and decade-long career, Dench starred in around sixty films, winning an Oscar for her role in…
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