Dame Maggie Smith who we all know as Professor Minerva McGonagall has breast cancer

“She is dealing with it in her typically brave and understated way,” one of her friends tells me. “She has had a tumour removed and subsequently completed a course of chemotherapy. This was precautionary and the prognosis looks good. The last thing she wants to do is to make a fuss about it.”

But Don’t worry The 73-year-old Oscar winner, insisted on going ahead with filming her role as Minerva McGonagall in the latest instalment of the Harry Potter series last month even as she was undergoing radiation therapy.

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