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