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How Maggie Smith won two Oscars despite her mother telling her she'd never be an actress 'with a face like that'... and even became a fashion model aged 88
If there had been a competition for scene-stealing among Britain's great actresses, it's odds-on that Dame Maggie Smith, who died yesterday at the age of 89, would have won it hands down.
King Charles spoke for many last night when he paid tribute saying: 'As the curtain comes down on a national treasure, we join all those around the world in remembering with the fondest admiration and affection her many great performances, and her warmth and wit that shone through both on and off the stage.' In her 88th year, she was named as the new face of the luxury Spanish fashion house Loewe, and modelled the brand arrayed in a ruffled white dress layered over a black polo neck sweater, and carrying a burgundy handbag. Maggie and Stephens had a second son, Toby, in 1969, who also became an acclaimed actor, but by the time the couple co-starred in a West End revival of Private Lives, Noel Coward's searching study of a disintegrating marriage, the similarities between the feuding characters on stage and the stars portraying them were impossible to ignore.
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