How many films has Dame Judi Dench made

A.� Dame Judi's first big screen appearance was in Four in the Morning in 1966. She made a number of films during the Seventies and Eighties, including Dead Cert in 1974, and A Room with a View in 1986, but it was during this time she concentrated on her stage career.

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She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961, winning rave reviews for her appearances as Ophelia, Titania and Lady Macbeth. She was in Noel Coward's Private Lives and showed versatility in Cabaret, only illness forced her out of the role as Grizabella in Cats, a role made famous by Elaine Paige.

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Iris - directed by Richard Eyre and tipped for Oscar success.

A.� She won one of her five Baftas for the series A Fine Romance, alongside her husband of 30 years Michael WIlliams. She received an OBE in 1970 and was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 1988. During this time she made Henry V with Kenneth Branagh.

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It was the double whammy of Mrs Brown, as Queen Victoria, playing alongside Billy Connolly in 1997, for which she gained an Oscar nomination, and playing a female M in�the new 007 Bond movie, GoldenEye, that made Hollywood sit up and take notice.� Harvey Weinstein, the box of American movie film Miramax, allegedly said: "If it were up to me, Judi Dench would be in all my moives."

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As the stately Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 she won a best Supporting Actress Oscar. She starred alongside Cher and Maggie Smith in Tea With Mussolini in 1999 and worked with Juliette Binoche in the 2000 film Chocolat.

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Q.� What's her latest work

A.� Her role as Iris Murdoch, the novelist stricken with Alzheimer's disease, she has received plaudits and awards from the British and American movie industry.�

She followed Iris with The Shipping News, alongside Kevin Spacey in Nova Scotia, and returned to Britain to play Lady Bracknell in The Importance of being Earnest. She will be on stage in the West End shortly in The Royal Family.

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By Katharine MacColl