In the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, the character Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) loses her leg to amputation due to severe infection caused by gangrene. This occurs after she becomes paralyzed from the neck down following a catastrophic spinal cord injury sustained during a boxing match, where she was struck after the bell.
Maggie develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg.
During her rise, Frankie gives Maggie the Gaelic nickname 'Mo Cuishle,' but refuses to tell her what it means. When she reaches a title fight, Maggie's opponent hits her from behind between rounds. Maggie falls and strikes her head on her stool and is paralysed from the neck down.
Later that night, as Frankie and Maggie drive along in the dark, Maggie tells Frankie about her dad and his dog, Axel, and how her dad had to take Axel out in the woods and put him down one day. She misses watching them together.
In 2004, Clint Eastwood made film history by becoming the oldest person to win the Academy Award for Best Director with Million Dollar Baby. At 74, he proved that passion and storytelling don't age—cementing his legacy as one of Hollywood's greatest creative forces.
Maggie had big news — she is pregnant with her first child conceived with donor sperm. She hadn't shared the news yet with Winston whose love life has been a mess since the two split.
In Season 14, Jackson begins a relationship with Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary), but by Season 16, they break up.
Falling from a swing, she breaks a finger on her infected arm, from which black fluid oozes. Terrified, even though she feels little to no pain, and despairing over her condition, Maggie cuts off the finger.
While filming "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), Hilary Swank contracted a bacterial infection from a blister she developed on her foot during training for her role. The infection was so serious that she told that if it hadn't been caught in time, she could have been hospitalized for three weeks.
That shot, of course, creates an opportunity for Maggie to tell a story about her father euthanizing a crippled dog named Axle. This reflection in turn foreshadows the film's great twist—in the title match, Maggie's neck is broken, leaving her a ventilator dependent quadriplegic.
It is later revealed that Maggie is actually pregnant, which she happily tells Glenn after he returns back from Hilltop.
In the novel, Maggie has a baby with Cal, named Elizabeth, but the book also mentions that Maggie was previously pregnant with Andrew's baby and suffered a miscarriage.
Michelle Trachtenberg as Maggie O'Donnell, Mike and Scarlet's 18-year-old daughter. Her conception was the reason Mike chose to abandon his dreams and marry Scarlet.
Following their marriage struggles throughout season 19, the pair's relationship ended with Maggie telling Winston that she needed to accept the job in Chicago after seeing how her birth mother Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) and adoptive mother Diane Pierce (LaTanya Richardson Jackson) stayed with their husbands longer than ...
It's later revealed that Hershel has grown angry and resentful towards his mother for her obsession with Negan, feeling that Maggie doesn't see him and is only constantly looking over his shoulder for Negan.
Carl Grimes loses his virginity to the possible Whisperer rat, Lydia.
Walt Disney received a record 26 Oscars, including 22 competitive awards and 4 honorary ones, for his groundbreaking work in animation and film production, holding the record for the most wins by an individual in Academy Awards history.
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While Clint Eastwood had many significant relationships, including two wives (Maggie Johnson, Dina Ruiz) and long-term partners like actress Sondra Locke, his last public partner of ten years, Christina Sandera, who passed away in July 2024, was described by Eastwood as a "lovely, caring woman" and an "important part of my life," leading many to view her as a deeply loved companion in his later years. Eastwood, known for his private life, only publicly confirmed their relationship shortly before her death, though they had been together since around 2014.