ACTRESSES

often complain that roles dry up when they hit 40, but Dame Maggie Smith is still coining it in at 83. Accounts for the company through which she channels her earnings disclose a net worth of £4.7 million, up from £3.8 million in 2016.

Interestingly, she has changed the name of the business, Maggie Smith Productions, to Dame Margaret Cross Productions, in honour of her second husband, playwright Beverley Cross, who died in 1998.