Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive career on stage, film, and television which began in the mid-1950s. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and over 70 plays, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the performing arts, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama. Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards: for The Private Ear, and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994) and A German Life (2019). She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. She received four other Oscar nominations that were for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1986), and Gosford Park (2001). Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Her other films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016. 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 Herself
- 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
- 2019 · Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Herself
- 2018 · Sherlock Gnomes as Lady Bluebury (voice)
- 2017 · Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Herself
- 2017 · Woolf Works as Reading (voice)
- 2016 · Robin And Mark And Richard III as Herself
- 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 · From Time to Time as Linnet
- 2010 · Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Agatha Rose Doherty
- 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
- 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 Susan
- 1988 · Talking Heads as
- 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