Philomena Lee's life-long search to find her son is documented in an award-winning film. But their reunion was prevented by nuns who sold him for an alleged $2,000 at three years old ...

Steve Coogan adapted the true story and also stars in "Philomena" about a woman who tries to find the son she was forced to give up for adoption as a pregnant teenager in 1950s Ireland.

The Oscar-nominated film Philomena airs on the BBC tonight, starring Judi Dench as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who maintained a 50-year search for her forcibly adopted son. The film tells Lee's ...

Philomena Lee was just 18 when she met a young man at the ... If you read the book Philomena, you will discover the true story of the lost son who made a success of his new life but was haunted ...

I first heard of Philomena Lee at a New Year’s party in 2004, when her daughter Jane approached me to ask for help. She told me her mother had just revealed a shocking secret – that she, Jane ...

This true story is told in the recent film "Philomena," starring Judi Dench as Philomena Lee. The film is based on a 2009 book by Martin Sixsmith, a former journalist who helped Lee in her search.

The 2013 movie was based on the true story of Philomena Lee, who was forced by the irish Catholic Church to give up her illegitimate son for adoption, and her quest 50 years later with journalist ...

Dame Judi Dench has signed on to play in the true life story of Philomena Lee, a heartbroken Irish mother whose search for her long lost son she gave up for adoption ended up at his grave.

Based on a true story by Martin Sixsmith and published in 2009 as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, the movie stars the peerless Judi Dench as Philomena and Steve Coogan as Sixsmith, the journalist ...

Philomena was one of thousands of women who were subjected to such forced adoptions in Ireland. Her story about her 50-year search for Anthony helped shed a light on the injustices suffered by ...

Philomena has released a US trailer. The film stars Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in the true story of a woman's search for her lost son. Coogan portrays former BBC journalist Martin Sixsmith ...