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I'd done Gosford Park, a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.
Maggie Smith
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Maggie Smith
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 28
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Ilford
London
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith
Margaret Natalie Smith
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