The 26-year-old actress suffers from the learning disability - which affects sufferers ability to read - and when she was growing up it was having a negative impact on her studies.
But young Keira idolized 'Nanny McPhee' star Emma and her mother Sharman MacDonald - who worked with Emma on the 1995 film 'Sense and Sensibility' - used her daughter's adoration to inspire her to beat the condition.
The 'Atonement' star was given a copy of the 'Sense and Sensibility' script by her playwright mom to try and read and told her giving up was not an option.
Keira revealed: "I'm a huge fan of Emma Thompson, huge! "I was - am? - dyslexic and the way my mother got me over it was to say, 'If Emma Thompson couldn't read, she'd make sure she'd get over it. So you have to start reading because that's what Emma Thompson would do.' "
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