Film star June Squibb is filling cinemas with her latest film, Thelma, about a 93-year-old who is the victim of a phone scam. She then sets out to reap vengeance on the scammers.

June only made her film debut in 1990 in Woody Allen’s film Alice, but Thelma is her first leading role.

She converted to Judaism in 1953 before marrying her first husband, Edward Sostek.

Later, she married acting teacher Charles Kakatsakis. They have a son named Harry.

June got on so well with the rabbi she studied with during her conversion that “we would talk and he would say, ‘Oh gee, we’ve got to stop this. We have to get back to Judaism’.”

The real-life Thelma is 103-year-old Thelma Post, the grandmother of the film’s director Josh Margolin.

In Thelma, June shows that there’s no such thing as Mission Impossible.

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