Maggie Smith actress who plays Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter, she was diagnosed with breast cancer while still filming the last film of the saga. Still, she decided to continue recording until the end, not to disappoint the fans. At the time, she even made fun to face the disease with the highest possible mood: "There are advantages in cancer, you know? My chemotherapy encouraged the make-up department of Harry Potter because the wig fixed much easier without a single hair on my head. "

Currently the actress won the cancer, but still suffers after-effects of the treatments that has been exposed.

In Portugal more than 6000 new cases of breast cancer are detected in a year and 1500 dies with this disease.
Nowadays there are a higher percentage of women who detect this cancer in time. 
Between those women, Sofia Ribeiro, a famous portuguese actress (who always have demonstrated assiduous to promote the prevention of this cancer and the support to this “female fight”) was far from imagine that would be affected by this evil.
In 13 November of 2015 (ironically in her lucky day), she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
The actress has shown her face into this war and joined the thousands of Portuguese women, claiming to resist and never give up.
She is an example to all women.