Maggie Smith
Born: 1934-12-28 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Died: 2024-09-27
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2024
- Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
2023
- The Miracle Club as Lily Fox
- Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Downton Abbey: A New Era as Violet Crawley
- The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration as Self
2021
- A Boy Called Christmas as Aunt Ruth
2019
- Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley
- Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event as Self
2018
- Sherlock Gnomes as Lady Bluebury (voice)
- Nothing Like a Dame as Self
2017
- Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Self
- Woolf Works as Reading (voice)
2016
- Robin And Mark And Richard III as Self
2015
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Muriel Donnelly
- The Lady in the Van as Miss Shepherd
- Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive material)
2014
- My Old Lady as Mathilde Girard
2013
- National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Mrs. Sullen
- Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Quartet as Jean Horton
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Muriel Donnelly
2011
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Minerva McGonagall
- Gnomeo & Juliet as Lady Bluebury (voice)
2010
- Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Agatha Rose Doherty
2009
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Minerva McGonagall
- From Time to Time as Linnet
2008
- Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait as Self (archival footage)
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Minerva McGonagall
- Becoming Jane as Lady Gresham
- Capturing Mary as Mary Gilbert
2006
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
- Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe as Self
2005
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Minerva McGonagall
- Keeping Mum as Grace Hawkins
2004
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Minerva McGonagall
- Ladies in Lavender as Janet
- The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
2003
- My House in Umbria as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
2002
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Minerva McGonagall
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Caro Bennett
- The Making of Gosford Park as Self (uncredited)
2001
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Minerva McGonagall
- Gosford Park as Constance Trentham
2000
- The Last September as Lady Myra Naylor
1999
- All the King's Men as Queen Alexandra
- Tea with Mussolini as Lady Hester Random
- David Copperfield as Betsey Trotwood
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
- The Secret Garden as Mrs. Medlock
- Suddenly, Last Summer as Violet Venable
1992
- Sister Act as Mother Superior
- Memento Mori as Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
1991
- Hook as Granny Wendy
- Performance as Mrs Venable
1990
- Romeo.Juliet as Rosaline (voice)
1988
- Talking Heads
- Talking Heads as Susan
1987
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Judith Hearne
1985
- A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett
- Screen Two as Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
1984
- A Private Function as Joyce Chilvers
- Lily in Love as Lily Wynn
1983
- Better Late Than Never as Miss Anderson
- Mrs. Silly as Mrs Silly
1982
- Evil Under the Sun as Daphne Castle
- The Missionary as Lady Isabel Ames
- The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Daphne Castle
1981
- Quartet as Lois Heidler
- Clash of the Titans as Thetis
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1978
- California Suite as Diana Barrie
- Death on the Nile as Miss Bowers
1976
- Murder by Death as Dora Charleston
1974
- Dinah! as Self
1973
- Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing as Lila Fisher
1972
- The Millionairess as Epifania
- The Merchant of Venice as Portia
- Travels with My Aunt as Augusta Bertram
1971
- Great Performances as Violet Venable
1969
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Music Hall Star
1968
- Hot Millions as Patty Terwilliger Smith
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self
- Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
- The Honey Pot as Sarah Watkins
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Ann Whitefield
- Young Cassidy as Nora
- Othello as Desdemona
- 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
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- Armchair Theatre as Anna Carnot
- Child in the House as Party Guest (uncredited)
1955
- Lilli Palmer Theatre as Paula Benson
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1950
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee