What do you want to do when you’re 90?

These days anyone over 50 is at risk of being considered over the hill. It’s a youth obsessed world, and in the acting business even more so – especially for women.

If you haven’t had a lead role by your thirties, you can pretty much forget it.

Not so June Squibb.  She’s just got her a first lead at the age of 94, and what a role she’s created. 

The movie is called “Thelma” and if she doesn’t get the Oscar nomination this year, there is no justice. 

Thelma is the story of a feisty old woman who gets cheated out of a large sum of money in a phone scam and, despite her family’s attempt to write her off as senile and stick her in a home, decides that this will not stand.

As John Patterson observed in the Guardian “June Squibb may top out at 5ft 2in. But in the middle of her ninth decade, we're finally clocking her as an acting colossus.”

It’s in cinemas now – I urge to go and see it. June Squibb is a marvel.  And after seeing her, don’t you dare write off age and experience as irrelevant!