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Christine Smith

Netflix star's huge brain tumour only discovered when he started going blind at 45

Welsh actor Craig Russell was feeling fit, healthy and on top of the world as he played Marc Antony in Netflix ’s Queen Cleopatra.

But just seven months later he was being sedated for an operation he didn’t know if he would wake up from.

The 45 year-old had noticed the vision in his left eye and hearing were both worsening, and the migraines he’d suffered with since his teenage years also appeared to have returned with a vengeance. Or so he thought.

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