Two-time Oscar-winning actress Dame Maggie Smith died on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at age 89. In this “Sunday Morning” profile that aired Dec. 27, 2015, she talked with correspondent Mo Rocca about her stage and screen career, which ranged from Shakespeare and Neil Simon to Harry Potter; and how she cheated with regard to wearing a corset while shooting the series “Downton Abbey.” Rocca also talked with playwright Alan Bennett, who wrote “The Lady in the Van,” the real-life story in which Smith stars as the indigent woman who'd camped out in Bennett’s driveway for 15 years.

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