Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 28, 1934
Died
Sep 27, 2024
Place of Birth
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Credits
110 titles
Maggie Smith
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 (archive footage)
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 (archive material)
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 (archive footage)
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
Agatha Rose Doherty
From Time to Time
Linnet
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Minerva McGonagall
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Self (archival footage)
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 (uncredited)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Caro
Gosford Park
Constance Trentham
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Minerva 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