Real-life mum and daughter in Netflix maid drama

Margaret Qualley (left) and her real-life mother Andie Macdowell (right) who plays her mother onscreen in Maid. PHOTO: NETFLIX
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LOS ANGELES - In the new Netflix series Maid, Margaret Qualley plays a single mother who turns to cleaning houses as she escapes an abusive relationship.

But as she struggles to make ends meet, she finds that it is even harder to escape poverty.

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