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For nearly 70 years, she played Peggy Woolley in the long-running radio drama: one of the best-loved matriarchs in British broadcasting.

Dame Maggie Smith was one of Britain's best-loved and most celebrated actresses, with a career spanning eight decades.

A carer has said her life has been turned upside after embracing a striking resemblance to one of the UK's best-loved TV characters.

“It was daunting because it’s one of the best-loved books not only in Russia but around the world,” he says.

Often classified among Ibsen’s sociological dramas, this debate play may seem less psychologically layered than the Norwegian playwright’s best-loved works.