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Dame Maggie Smith, an iconic actress for multiple generations, is dead at 89.
An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end, they added.
The family moved to Oxford when Smith was 4.
What did the teacher see?
I think I was just very odd, Smith toldThe Guardianin 2004.
The two separated in 73 and she married playwright Beverley Cross in 75.
She won her second Academy Award forCalifornia Suitein 1979.
Smith was made a dame in 1990 by Queen Elizabeth II.
As she dies, she admonishes her ladys maid: Stop crying, Denker.
I cant hear myself die.
