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Dame Eileen, 73, beats on-screen sister to Bafta

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From: Belfast Telegraph
Date: 20080421
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Dame Eileen had to wait until the age of 73 for her first Bafta, winning best actress for her role in BBC1 costume drama Cranford, in which she played an elderly spinster, Miss Deborah Jenkyns. It is 39 years since she was last nominated.

In the series, adapted from the works of Elizabeth Gaskell about a northern town on the brink of radical social change, Dame Judi played Miss Jenkyns's sister, Miss Matty.

Interviewed on the way into the ceremony at the London Palladium, Dame Judi joked: "I've got my money on [Dame Eileen]," adding mischievously that there would be "a huge catfight" later.

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