The Oscar-winning actress had been working on a Christmas special of BBC TV show ‘Cranford’ – which is based on three 19th Century novellas written by Elizabeth Gaskell – when she had a dental disaster and lost a crown.

Judi was in full 1840s dress – which she wears for her role as Matty Jenkins in the drama – when she was rushed to the practice in Ealing, west London.

She said: “There wasn’t time for me to change. So I was in my wig and bonnet and all my clothes. I went into the waiting room and everyone kept looking.

“When I got in to see the dentist, he said, ‘Are you busy working?’ I was wearing a full wig with curls.”

Although 74-year-old Judi is famous for her period roles on both the big and small screens, she insists she wouldn’t have wanted to live in the 1800s because of “all that washing”.

The actress – who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her turn as British monarch Queen Elizabeth I in ‘Shakespeare in Love’ – said: “Mind you, when I was little we didn’t have a dishwasher, we didn’t have a washing machine – we didn’t have any of those things, so we had a bit of that at the end of the 1930s.”

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The ‘Iron Man’ actress has signed on to replace Charlize Theron in ‘The Danish Girl’, an adaptation of a novel about the first post-operative transsexual.

The film follows Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener who found success after Einar stood in for a female model that Greta was set to paint. As their work gained popularity, Greta encouraged her husband to continue to adopt a female guise.

This eventually led to Einar undergoing a sex change operation in 1931, shocking the world and threatening their marriage.

Anand Turker is set to direct the film, which screenwriter Lucinda Coxon is adapting from David Ebershoff’s novel of the same name.

Nicole previously won an Oscar for playing a lesbian in ‘The Hours’, while Gwyneth saw her character in ‘Shakespeare In Love’ disguise herself as a man in order to fulfil her acting dreams.

Last week, Nicole said she actively sought out “extreme” film choices and explored all aspects of love, sex and marriage.

She said: “In the end I hope my life will be a mix of extreme love and bold artistic choices. I’ve never wanted to be safe. I’ve never chosen safe relationships. And I’ve never chosen safe films.”

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