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Maggie Smith

Born 1934-12-28
Died 2024-09-27
📍 Ilford, Essex, England, UK

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.

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Filmography 115

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
2024
The Miracle Club
as Lily Fox
2023
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
as Self
2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Violet Crawley
2022
A Boy Called Christmas
as Aunt Ruth
2021
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
as Self
2019
Downton Abbey
as Violet Crawley
2019
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self
2018
Sherlock Gnomes
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
2018
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
as Self
2017
Woolf Works
as Reading (voice)
2017
Robin And Mark And Richard III
as Self
2016
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
2015
The Lady in the Van
as Miss Shepherd
2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly
2015
My Old Lady
as Mathilde Girard
2014
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Mrs. Sullen
2013
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Quartet
as Jean Horton
2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly
2012
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Minerva McGonagall
2011
Gnomeo & Juliet
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
2011
Downton Abbey
as Violet Crawley
2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Agatha Rose Doherty
2010
From Time to Time
as Linnet
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Minerva McGonagall
2009
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
as Self (archival footage)
2008
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
2007
Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe
as Self
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
2006
Keeping Mum
as Grace Hawkins
2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Minerva McGonagall
2005
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
2004
My House in Umbria
as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
2003
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
2002
Gosford Park
as Constance Trentham
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Minerva McGonagall
2001
The Last September
as Lady Myra Naylor
2000
David Copperfield
as Betsey Trotwood
1999
All the King's Men
as Queen Alexandra
1999
Tea with Mussolini
as Lady Hester Random
1999
Curtain Call
as Lily Marlowe
1998
Washington Square
as Aunt Lavinia Penniman
1997
The First Wives Club
as Gunilla Garson Goldberg
1996
Richard III
as Duchess of York
1995
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Mother Superior
1993
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
1993
Suddenly, Last Summer
as Violet Venable
1993
Sister Act
as Mother Superior
1992
Memento Mori
as Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
1992
Performance
as Mrs Venable
1991
Hook
as Granny Wendy
1991
Romeo.Juliet
as Rosaline (voice)
1990
Talking Heads
1988
Talking Heads
as Susan
1988
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Judith Hearne
1987
A Room with a View
as Charlotte Bartlett
1986
Screen Two
as Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
1985
A Private Function
as Joyce Chilvers
1984
Lily in Love
as Lily Wynn
1984
Mrs. Silly
as Mrs Silly
1983
Better Late Than Never
as Miss Anderson
1983
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
1982
Quartet
as Lois Heidler
1981
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
Clash of the Titans
as Thetis
1981
Death on the Nile
as Miss Bowers
1978
California Suite
as Diana Barrie
1978
Murder by Death
as Dora Charleston
1976
Dinah!
as Self
1974
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
as Lila Fisher
1973
Travels with My Aunt
as Augusta Bertram
1972
The Millionairess
as Epifania
1972
The Merchant of Venice
as Portia
1972
Great Performances
as Violet Venable
1971
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Music Hall Star
1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Jean Brodie
1969
Hot Millions
as Patty Terwilliger Smith
1968
ITV Playhouse
as Mrs. Wislack
1967
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self
1967
The Honey Pot
as Sarah Watkins
1967
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
1967
Othello
as Desdemona
1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Ann Whitefield
1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Portia
1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Epifana
1965
Young Cassidy
as Nora
1965
Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland
as self
1965
The Pumpkin Eater
as Philpot
1964
The V.I.P.s
as Miss Mead
1963
Go to Blazes
as Chantal
1962
Nowhere to Go
as Bridget Howard
1958
Child in the House
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Anna Carnot
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Juliet Denise
1956
Armchair Theatre
as The Girl
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer / Winner
1956
Tony Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1956
Lilli Palmer Theatre
as Paula Benson
1955
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944