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Dame Maggie Smith, star of the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89.
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Jean Brodie is the name of a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), as well as in the play and 1969 film of the same name—both by Jay Presson Allen—which were both based on the novel.
Dame Maggie Smith, star of the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89.