
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.
109 acting credits
Acting · 109

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Great Performances
1971

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001

Downton Abbey
2010

Tony Awards
1956

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007

The Oscars
1953

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009

Screen Two
1985

ITV Playhouse
1967

Dinah!
1974

Sunday Night Theatre
1950

Performance
1991

Kraft Television Theatre
1947

Entertainment Tonight
1981

Hook
1991

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010

Clash of the Titans
1981

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993

Sister Act
1992

Gosford Park
2001

Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955

Talking Pictures
2013

Gnomeo & Juliet
2011

Downton Abbey
2019

Death on the Nile
1978

Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022

David Copperfield
1999

The Secret Garden
1993

A Room with a View
1986

Becoming Jane
2007

The First Wives Club
1996

Talking Heads
1988

Sherlock Gnomes
2018

Murder by Death
1976

Armchair Theatre
1956

The Lady in the Van
2015

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012

Evil Under the Sun
1982

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002

A Boy Called Christmas
2021

Keeping Mum
2005

Ladies in Lavender
2004

Richard III
1995

The Miracle Club
2023

California Suite
1978

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004

The Making of Gosford Park
2002

Quartet
2012

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969

Washington Square
1997

Curtain Call
1998

Tea with Mussolini
1999

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969

The Missionary
1982

Othello
1965

Travels with My Aunt
1972

The Pumpkin Eater
1964

The V.I.P.s
1963

Nowhere to Go
1958

All the King's Men
1999

My Old Lady
2014

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
1973

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982

Quartet
1981

Capturing Mary
2007

A Private Function
1984

The Last September
2000

From Time to Time
2009

Nothing Like a Dame
2018

Lily in Love
1984

Hot Millions
1968

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987

My House in Umbria
2003

Memento Mori
1992

The Millionairess
1972

Much Ado About Nothing
1967

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015

Young Cassidy
1965

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022

Romeo.Juliet
1990

Better Late Than Never
1983

The Honey Pot
1967

Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
2019

The Merchant of Venice
1972

Suddenly, Last Summer
1993

Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe
2006

Child in the House
1956

Go to Blazes
1962

Mrs. Silly
1983

Woolf Works
2017

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024

Talking Heads
1988
Olivier Talks About Othello
1965

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
2008

Robin And Mark And Richard III
2016

Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland
1965