The star has not let problems with her eyesight slow her down.
, recently sharing that she likes to pretend she is over 30 years younger than she really is, at 56.
‘We’ve got to keep going and not think of age too much. You have to think you are about 56,’ she explained.Dame Judi is set to appear as a special guest on the new series of Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts, where she will sit for four hours and be painted by 10 previous winners, all vying for her approval.
The star was spotted beaming at Braemar Literary Festival on Saturday as she told Portrait Artist of the Year that she likes to think she’s 56 On the show, according to, she also told 90-year-old presenter Dame Joan Bakewell: ‘I am not frightfully good at sitting still and I am very inclined to drop off. After lunch is a tricky time for me.’
She also recalled a funny past occasion where she’d fallen asleep on stage during a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream because ‘we’d been there a long time’.The veteran actress with her Academy Award for Shakespeare in Love in 1999 fight back tears as she observed rare golden eaglesAlongside Strictly Come Dancing champion Hamza Yassin, the actress was treated to the ‘breathtaking sight’ through a special camera to assist her sight.
The star, who has advanced macular degeneration, told Hamza of her reaction: ‘I’m very overcome. It is an enormous privilege.‘How often does anybody see that? Not very often.’
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