Maggie Smith

Acting

Born Dec 28, 1934

From Ilford, Essex, England, UK

Died Sep 27, 2024

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (December 28, 1934 − September 27, 2024) was a British actress. Known for her wit in comedic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses. She received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Laurence Olivier Awards. Smith was one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting. Smith began her stage career as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. Over the following decades Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, she received Tony Award nominations for Noël Coward's Private Lives (1975) and Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979), and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990). She won Academy Awards for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She was Oscar-nominated for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She portrayed Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). She also acted in Death on the Nile (1978), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Quartet (2012) and The Lady in the Van (2015). Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The role earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards; she had previously won one for the HBO film My House in Umbria (2003). Over the course of her career she was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1993, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996 and the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. Smith was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Maggie Smith

Known For

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hook

Gosford Park

Sister Act

Filmography — Acting

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hook

Gosford Park

Sister Act

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Becoming Jane

Clash of the Titans

The Secret Garden

Gnomeo & Juliet

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Death on the Nile

Downton Abbey

Quartet

The First Wives Club

A Room with a View

Sherlock Gnomes

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Keeping Mum

A Boy Called Christmas

Evil Under the Sun

The Lady in the Van

Murder by Death

Tea with Mussolini

Ladies in Lavender

Richard III

The Miracle Club

Washington Square

From Time to Time

The Last September

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Oh! What a Lovely War

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

The V.I.P.s

California Suite

Quartet

My Old Lady

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Travels with My Aunt

Capturing Mary

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

The Missionary

The Honey Pot

Nothing Like a Dame

Othello

Curtain Call

Better Late Than Never

A Private Function

The Pumpkin Eater

The Making of Gosford Park

All the King's Men

Much Ado About Nothing

My House in Umbria

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Hot Millions

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event

Young Cassidy

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story