Maggie Smith
- Acting
- December 28, 1934 · Ilford, Essex, England, UK
- September 27, 2024
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
- The Miracle Club · Lily Fox
- Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story · Self
- The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration · Self
- Downton Abbey: A New Era · Violet Crawley
- A Boy Called Christmas · Aunt Ruth
- Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event · Self
- Downton Abbey · Violet Crawley
- Nothing Like a Dame · Self
- Sherlock Gnomes · Lady Bluebury (Voice)
- Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches · Self
- Woolf Works · Reading (Voice)
- Robin And Mark And Richard III · Self
- Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC · Self
- The Lady in the Van · Miss Shepherd
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel · Muriel Donnelly
- My Old Lady · Mathilde Girard
- National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage · Mrs. Sullen
- Talking Pictures · Self
- Quartet · Jean Horton
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel · Muriel Donnelly
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · Minerva McGonagall
- Gnomeo & Juliet · Lady Bluebury (Voice)
- Downton Abbey · Violet Crawley
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang · Mrs. Docherty
- From Time to Time · Linnet
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince · Minerva McGonagall
- Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait · Self
- Capturing Mary · Mary Gilbert
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix · Minerva McGonagall
- Becoming Jane · Lady Gresham
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe · Self
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays · Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
- Keeping Mum · Grace Hawkins
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire · Minerva McGonagall
- Ladies in Lavender · Janet
- The Magic Touch of Harry Potter · Self
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · Minerva McGonagall
- My House in Umbria · Mrs. Emily Delahunty
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets · Minerva McGonagall
- The Making of Gosford Park · Self
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood · Caro
- Gosford Park · Constance Trentham
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone · Professor McGonagall
- The Last September · Lady Myra Naylor
- David Copperfield · Betsey Trotwood
- All the King's Men · Queen Alexandra
- Tea with Mussolini · Lady Hester Random
- Curtain Call · Lily Marlowe
- Washington Square · Aunt Lavinia Penniman
- The First Wives Club · Gunilla Garson Goldberg
- Richard III · Duchess of York
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit · Mother Superior
- The Secret Garden · Mrs. Medlock
- Suddenly, Last Summer · Violet Venable
- Sister Act · Mother Superior
- Memento Mori · Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
- Performance · Mrs Venable
- Hook · Granny Wendy
- Romeo.Juliet · Rosaline (Voice)
- Talking Heads
- Talking Heads · Susan
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne · Judith Hearne
- A Room with a View · Charlotte Bartlett
- Screen Two · Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
- A Private Function · Joyce Chilvers
- Lily in Love · Lily Wynn
- Mrs. Silly · Mrs Silly
- Better Late Than Never · Miss Anderson
- The Missionary · Lady Isabel Ames
- All for Love · Mrs. Silly
- Evil Under the Sun · Daphne Castle
- The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' · Self / Daphne Castle
- Quartet · Lois Heidler
- Entertainment Tonight · Self
- Clash of the Titans · Thetis
- Death on the Nile · Miss Bowers
- California Suite · Diana Barrie
- Murder by Death · Dora Charleston