Maggie Smith
Acting
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.
Born: December 28, 1934
Place of Birth: Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
as Lily Fox
as Self (archive footage)
as Violet Crawley
as Aunt Ruth
as Violet Crawley
as Self
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
as Reading (voice)
as Self (archive material)
as Miss Shepherd
as Muriel Donnelly
as Mathilde Girard
as Mrs. Sullen
as Self (archive footage)
as Jean Horton
as Muriel Donnelly
as Minerva McGonagall
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
as Violet Crawley
as Agatha Rose Doherty
as Linnet
as Minerva McGonagall
as Self (archival footage)
as Mary Gilbert
as Minerva McGonagall
as Lady Gresham
as Self
as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
as Grace Hawkins
as Minerva McGonagall
as Janet
as Minerva McGonagall
as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
as Minerva McGonagall
as Self (uncredited)
as Caro Bennett
as Constance Trentham
as Minerva McGonagall
as Lady Myra Naylor
as Betsey Trotwood
as Queen Alexandra
as Lady Hester Random
as Lily Marlowe
as Aunt Lavinia Penniman
as Gunilla Garson Goldberg
as Duchess of York
as Mother Superior
as Mrs. Medlock
as Violet Venable
as Mother Superior
as Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
as Mrs Venable
as Granny Wendy
as Rosaline (voice)
as Susan
as Judith Hearne
as Charlotte Bartlett
as Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
as Joyce Chilvers
as Lily Wynn
as Mrs Silly
as Miss Anderson
as Lady Isabel Ames
as Daphne Castle
as Self / Daphne Castle
as Lois Heidler
as Self
as Thetis
as Diana Barrie
as Miss Bowers
as Dora Charleston
as Self
as Lila Fisher
as Augusta Bertram
as Epifania
as Portia
as Violet Venable
as Music Hall Star
as Jean Brodie
as Patty Terwilliger Smith
as Self
as Sarah Watkins
as Beatrice
as Desdemona
as Ann Whitefield
as Portia
as Epifana
as Nora
as Philpot
as Miss Mead
as Chantal
as Bridget Howard
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Anna Carnot
as Juliet Denise
as The Girl
as Self - Presenter
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Performer/Winner
as Self - Nominee
as Paula Benson
as Self
as Self - Nominee