Actress Dame Judi Dench is Battling Blindness!

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LONDON (AP) — Actress Judi Dench is battling to save her sight.

The James Bond star said in an interview published Saturday that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition which can cause blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn't even read her own scripts.

The 77-year-old told the Daily Mirror that she was relying on friends and family to keep her up to speed with her lines.

"It's usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind," she told the newspaper during an interview at a London hotel. "The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can't see the person I'm having dinner with."

The Mirror didn't say exactly where or when the interview took place. Messages left for Dench's agent were not immediately returned Saturday.

Dench made her Shakespearean debut in 1957 at London's Old Vic and has since taken on a vast number of theater, film and television roles.

She won an Academy Award for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love" and is best known to international audiences as intelligence boss M in the James Bond series.

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If anyone is a fan of hers what is your favorite movie/etc performance she has had?

thats sad, I liked her in Shakespeare in love.

Don't know who she is. This is scary as hell. I can't even imagine not ever being able to see and hear. Hopefully her situation will improve.

I know of her but I don't really know many movies she has been in.

I know the Bond films, Shakespeare in Love which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Notes on a Scandal which I think she got another Oscar nom for, and a couple more movies.

I really hope she gets well because going blind would suck so bad. Actress Dame Judi Dench is Battling Blindness! 478927

Actress Dame Judi Dench is Battling Blindness! 478927

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