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‘Die Another Day’ Star Toby Stephens Shares Why He And Mother Maggie Smith Never Acted Together
The British actor shares his pride in his mother's extraordinary career.
Toby Stephens with his mother, the late Dame Maggie Smith Dave Benett/Getty Images UK actor Toby Stephens has enjoyed his own triumphs on screen – best known for his role as James Bond’s youngest ever villain Gustav Graves opposite Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day(2002). And the career of his mother, Dame Maggie Smith who died in 2023, is celebrated as one of the 20 th century’s great legacies – on theatre, stage and screen, although two roles came to define her to younger generations, those of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series, and the acerbic Dowager Duchess in the long-running TV series Downton Abbey. More recently, Stephens has appeared in Amazon’s teenage spy series Alex Rider, where he played billionaire villain Damian Cray.
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