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person_profile-Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith Age: 90

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Maggie Smith

Date of Birth:

Dec 28, 1934

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Maggie Smith

Found 80 Movies in total

The Miracle Club

Lily Fox ( Actor )

... 2023

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

... 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Violet Crawley ( Actor )

... 2022

A Boy Called Christmas

Aunt Ruth ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2019

Downton Abbey

Violet Crawley ( Actor )

... 2019

Nothing Like a Dame

Herself ( Actor )

... 2018

Sherlock Gnomes

Lady Bluebury (voice) ( Actor )

... 2018

... 2017

Woolf Works

Reading (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2016

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

Self (archive material) ( Actor )

... 2015

The Lady in the Van

Miss Shepherd ( Actor )

... 2015

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Muriel Donnelly ( Actor )

... 2015

My Old Lady

Mathilde Girard ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2013

Quartet

Jean Horton ( Actor )

... 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Muriel Donnelly ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2011

Gnomeo & Juliet

Lady Bluebury (voice) ( Actor )

... 2011

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Agatha Rose Doherty ( Actor )

... 2010

From Time to Time

Linnet ( Actor )

... 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Minerva McGonagall ( Actor )

... 2009

Capturing Mary

Mary Gilbert ( Actor )

... 2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Minerva McGonagall ( Actor )

... 2007

Becoming Jane

Lady Gresham ( Actor )

... 2007

Keeping Mum

Grace Hawkins ( Actor )

... 2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Minerva McGonagall ( Actor )

... 2005

Ladies in Lavender

Janet ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Minerva McGonagall ( Actor )

... 2004

My House in Umbria

Mrs. Emily Delahunty ( Actor )

... 2003

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Minerva McGonagall ( Actor )

... 2002

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Caro Eliza Bennett ( Actor )

... 2002

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Minerva McGonagall ( Actor )

... 2001

Gosford Park

Constance Trentham ( Actor )

... 2001

The Last September

Lady Myra Naylor ( Actor )

... 2000

All the King's Men

Queen Alexandra ( Actor )

... 1999

Tea with Mussolini

Lady Hester Random ( Actor )

... 1999

Curtain Call

Lily Marlowe ( Actor )

... 1998

Washington Square

Aunt Lavinia Penniman ( Actor )

... 1997

The First Wives Club

Gunilla Garson Goldberg ( Actor )

... 1996

Richard III

Duchess of York ( Actor )

... 1995

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Mother Superior ( Actor )

... 1993

The Secret Garden

Mrs. Medlock ( Actor )

... 1993

Suddenly, Last Summer

Violet Venable ( Actor )

... 1993

Sister Act

Mother Superior ( Actor )

... 1992

Memento Mori

Mrs Mabel Pettigrew ( Actor )

... 1992

Hook

Granny Wendy ( Actor )

... 1991

Romeo.Juliet

Rosaline (voice) ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1988

... 1987

A Room with a View

Charlotte Bartlett ( Actor )

... 1985

A Private Function

Joyce Chilvers ( Actor )

... 1984

Lily in Love

Lily Wynn ( Actor )

... 1984

Mrs. Silly

Mrs Silly ( Actor )

... 1983

Better Late Than Never

Miss Anderson ( Actor )

... 1983

The Missionary

Lady Isabel Ames ( Actor )

... 1982

Evil Under the Sun

Daphne Castle ( Actor )

... 1982

Quartet

Lois Heidler ( Actor )

... 1981

Clash of the Titans

Thetis ( Actor )

... 1981

California Suite

Diana Barrie ( Actor )

... 1978

Death on the Nile

Miss Bowers ( Actor )

... 1978

Murder by Death

Dora Charleston ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1973

Travels with My Aunt

Augusta Bertram ( Actor )

... 1972

The Millionairess

Epifania ( Actor )

... 1972

The Merchant of Venice

Portia ( Actor )

... 1972

Oh! What a Lovely War

Music Hall Star ( Actor )

... 1969

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Jean Brodie ( Actor )

... 1969

Hot Millions

Patty Terwilliger Smith ( Actor )

... 1968

The Honey Pot

Sarah Watkins ( Actor )

... 1967

Othello

Desdemona ( Actor )

... 1965

Young Cassidy

Nora ( Actor )

... 1965

The Pumpkin Eater

Philpot ( Actor )

... 1964

The V.I.P.s

Miss Mead ( Actor )

... 1963

Go to Blazes

Chantal ( Actor )

... 1962

Nowhere to Go

Bridget Howard ( Actor )

... 1958

Child in the House

Party Guest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956