Maggie Smith

Acting · 3.4 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: December 28, 1934 – September 27, 2024
From: Ilford, Essex, England, UK

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.

Works

88 films

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

20017.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

20057.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

20097.7

Hook

19916.8

Sister Act

19926.8

Death on the Nile

19787.1

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

20106.3

Gnomeo & Juliet

20115.9

Clash of the Titans

19816.9

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

19936.4

Gosford Park

20016.8

Downton Abbey

20197.1

Keeping Mum

20056.7

Downton Abbey: A New Era

20227.2

The Secret Garden

19937.4

The First Wives Club

19966.7

Becoming Jane

20077.3

Evil Under the Sun

19826.9

A Room with a View

19867.0

A Boy Called Christmas

20217.3

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20127.0

Sherlock Gnomes

20185.7

Murder by Death

19767.1

Ladies in Lavender

20046.5

The Miracle Club

20236.3

The Lady in the Van

20156.4

Richard III

19956.8

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20156.4

My Old Lady

20146.2

Tea with Mussolini

19996.4

Quartet

20126.5

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

20026.1

From Time to Time

20096.3

California Suite

19785.8

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

19696.9

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

2017

The Missionary

19825.6

Oh! What a Lovely War

19696.6

Lily in Love

19846.3

Hot Millions

19686.6

The V.I.P.s

19636.1

Washington Square

19976.2

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

My House in Umbria

20036.1

Curtain Call

19985.1

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

The Pumpkin Eater

19646.7

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

20244.5

A Private Function

19846.4

The Honey Pot

19676.4

Capturing Mary

20076.3

Nowhere to Go

19586.6

Othello

19656.4

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

19876.6

Quartet

19815.8

The Making of Gosford Park

20025.3

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

20236.4

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

20136.2

Travels with My Aunt

19726.0

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait

20087.7

Young Cassidy

19656.4

Robin And Mark And Richard III

20169.0

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

19736.1

Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event

20197.2

The Last September

20005.2

Much Ado About Nothing

19676.3

All the King's Men

19996.3

Olivier Talks About Othello

1965

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

20155.0

Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland

19655.5

The Merchant of Venice

19728.5

Memento Mori

19926.3

The Millionairess

19728.5

Suddenly, Last Summer

19936.4

Go to Blazes

19626.3

Woolf Works

20172.0

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

20228.0

Better Late Than Never

19834.8

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

19828.3

Mrs. Silly

198310.0

Child in the House

19566.6

Talking Heads

19885.0