Dame
Maggie Smith, who plays Professor McGonagall in the
Harry Potter series, has been battling cancer since 2007, yet she has
vowed to "stagger through" the final film,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
She's surely a trooper!
"The cancer was hideous. It takes the wind out of your sails and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. You feel so ghastly, you wouldn't mind dying a lot of the time," divulged the actress. "The