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"I became a hippy instead," she says.

And they're very ruthless and they're very tough.

' There was also the practical matter of having a family to think about.

WHOLE LOT OF WOMAN; AT THE AGE OF 51, FRANCESCA ANNIS IS HAVING RED-HOT AFFAIRS WITH TWO YOUNGER MEN.

One critic described her as "impossibly beautiful".

In 1980 she starred with Sir John Gielgud in the first Agatha Christie novel to be adapted for television, Why Didn't They Ask Evans? "I'm rarely offered the good-girl parts," she says.

'I don't know where I got it into my head that I could be there and have wonderful parts and not be a sex object' Cold, regal, distant — these are the things I'd expected Francesca Annis to be in person.

In fact, when I mention the F-word — suggesting that it must be a liberation to no longer be in a relationship where your every move is followed — no such thing happens.

Nonetheless, the role had gotten her foot in the door and led to her gigs in Electric Dreams and Dune.

She says she would like to live in America but stays in Britain because "this is where my head is", and more importantly, "my work is here".