Maggie Smith
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
Credits
- 2023 · The Miracle Club as Lily Fox
- 2023 · Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · A German Life as Brunhilde Pomsel
- 2022 · The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration as Self
- 2022 · Downton Abbey: A New Era as Violet Crawley
- 2021 · A Boy Called Christmas as Aunt Ruth
- 2019 · Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event as Self
- 2019 · Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self
- 2018 · Sherlock Gnomes as Lady Bluebury (voice)
- 2017 · Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Self
- 2017 · Woolf Works as Reading (voice)
- 2016 · Robin And Mark And Richard III as Self
- 2015 · Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive material)
- 2015 · The Lady in the Van as Miss Shepherd
- 2015 · The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Muriel Donnelly
- 2014 · My Old Lady as Mathilde Girard
- 2013 · National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Mrs. Sullen
- 2013 · Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Quartet as Jean Horton
- 2012 · The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Muriel Donnelly
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Minerva McGonagall (archive footage)
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Minerva McGonagall
- 2011 · Gnomeo & Juliet as Lady Bluebury (voice)
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley
- 2010 · Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Agatha Rose Doherty
- 2009 · From Time to Time as Linnet
- 2009 · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Minerva McGonagall
- 2008 · Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait as Self (archival footage)
- 2007 · Capturing Mary as Mary Gilbert
- 2007 · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Minerva McGonagall
- 2007 · Becoming Jane as Lady Gresham
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe as Self
- 2006 · The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
- 2005 · Keeping Mum as Grace Hawkins
- 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Minerva McGonagall
- 2004 · Ladies in Lavender as Janet
- 2004 · The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
- 2004 · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Minerva McGonagall
- 2003 · My House in Umbria as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
- 2002 · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Minerva McGonagall
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self (uncredited)
- 2002 · Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Caro Bennett
- 2001 · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Minerva McGonagall
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Constance Trentham
- 2000 · The Last September as Lady Myra Naylor
- 1999 · David Copperfield as Betsey Trotwood
- 1999 · All the King's Men as Queen Alexandra
- 1999 · Tea with Mussolini as Lady Hester Random
- 1998 · Curtain Call as Lily Marlowe
- 1997 · Washington Square as Aunt Lavinia Penniman
- 1996 · The First Wives Club as Gunilla Garson Goldberg
- 1995 · Richard III as Duchess of York
- 1993 · Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Mother Superior
- 1993 · The Secret Garden as Mrs. Medlock
- 1993 · Suddenly, Last Summer as Violet Venable
- 1992 · Sister Act as Mother Superior
- 1992 · Memento Mori as Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
- 1991 · Hook as Granny Wendy
- 1990 · Romeo.Juliet as Rosaline (voice)
- 1988 · Talking Heads as
- 1988 · Talking Heads as Susan
- 1987 · The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Judith Hearne
- 1986 · A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett
- 1984 · A Private Function as Joyce Chilvers
- 1984 · Lily in Love as Lily Wynn
- 1983 · Mrs. Silly as Mrs Silly
- 1983 · Better Late Than Never as Miss Anderson
- 1982 · The Missionary as Lady Isabel Ames
- 1982 · Evil Under the Sun as Daphne Castle
- 1982 · The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Daphne Castle
- 1981 · Quartet as Lois Heidler
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1981 · Clash of the Titans as Thetis
- 1978 · California Suite as Diana Barrie
- 1978 · Death on the Nile as Miss Bowers
- 1978 · Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette as Miss Bowers (archive footage)
- 1976 · Murder by Death as Dora Charleston
- 1973 · Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing as Lila Fisher
- 1972 · Travels with My Aunt as Augusta Bertram
- 1972 · The Millionairess as Epifania
- 1972 · The Merchant of Venice as Portia
- 1971 · Great Performances as Violet Venable
- 1969 · Oh! What a Lovely War as Music Hall Star
- 1969 · The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie
- 1968 · Hot Millions as Patty Terwilliger Smith
- 1967 · The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters
- 1967 · The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · The Carol Burnett Show as Self
- 1967 · The Honey Pot as Sarah Watkins
- 1967 · Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
- 1965 · Othello as Desdemona
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Epifania
- 1965 · Young Cassidy as Nora
- 1965 · Olivier Talks About Othello as (archive footage)
- 1964 · The Pumpkin Eater as Philpot
- 1963 · The V.I.P.s as Miss Mead
- 1962 · Go to Blazes as Chantal
- 1958 · Nowhere to Go as Bridget Howard
- 1956 · Child in the House as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self