Is Laura Dern in Jurassic Park III

A.� She's back as paleobotanist Dr Ellie Sattler in the third of the series, but this time in a much smaller role.�This time it's Tea Leoni, wife of X-Files star David Duchovny, who has to evade the prehistroic creatures.

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Q.� Is the format similar to the last Jurassic Park

A.� Once more, Sam Neill co-stars and he is joined by Tea Leoni and WIlliam H Macy, in a battle with the genetically-cloned dinosaurs on another fictitious island off Costa Tice, this time Isla Sorna. This film, unlike the last two which were based on Michael Crichton novels, was specifically written as a screenplay. Steven Spielberg is executive producer, but the director is Joe Johnston.

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Q.� What else has Laura Dern been in

A.� Before Jurassic Park - it's eight years since the last blockbuster - she was known for her roles in Wild At Heart and Rambling Rose, in which she won as Oscar nomination for playing highly sexed Rose, and critical acclaim for the dimwitted abortion target in Citizen Ruth.

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She is currently on British screens in Robert Altman's Dr T And The Women. She stars alongside Kate Hudson, Shelley Long and Farrah Fawcett and plays a flamboyant and heavy-drinking good-time girl.� Laura Dern is the daughter of Hollywood parents,�actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, and has had highly publicised relationships with co-star Jeff Goldblum, Kyle MacLachlan (Blue Velvet) and Vincent Spano (Afterburn). Her partner Billy Bob Thornton left her for Lara Croft star Angelina Jolie last year.

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Q.� When is the film on our screens

A.� Jurassic Park opened in a blaze of publicity in Los Angeles and premiered in the UK on Friday.

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By Katharine MacColl