“In 1974 I met the actor David Buck while making the TV show Crown Court. He was 15 years older than me and very bright, but not an easy man. We had our daughter, Emily, in 1984. He died in 1989 ...

Emily hates everything I’ve ever done.” Emily, 39, is Madeline’s only child, from her marriage to actor David Buck, whom she wed six months before he died from a brain tumour in 1989.

Actress and model Madeline Smith earned less than £100 ... I was married to the actor David Buck, and there were long lean periods of no acting work. There was often nothing left over after ...

“In 1974 I met the actor David Buck while making the TV show Crown Court. He was 15 years older than me and very bright, but not an easy man. We had our daughter, Emily, in 1984. He died in 1989 ...