Acting
Maggie Smith
EN, FR cinema · 87 credits
Born
28 December 1934
Died
27 September 2024 (aged 89)
Birthplace
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Also known as Margaret Natalie Smith · Dame Margaret Natalie Smith · Меггі Сміт · مگی اسمیت
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.
Known for
Filmography
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
as Self (archive footage)
The Miracle Club
as Lily Fox
Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Violet Crawley
A Boy Called Christmas
as Aunt Ruth
Downton Abbey
as Violet Crawley
Sherlock Gnomes
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
Woolf Works
as Reading (voice)
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)
My Old Lady
as Mathilde Girard
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Mrs. Sullen
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly
Quartet
as Jean Horton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Minerva McGonagall
Gnomeo & Juliet
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Mrs. Docherty
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Minerva McGonagall
From Time to Time
as Linnet
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
as Self (archival footage)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Minerva McGonagall
Becoming Jane
as Lady Gresham
Capturing Mary
as Mary Gilbert
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Minerva McGonagall
Keeping Mum
as Grace Hawkins
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Minerva McGonagall
Ladies in Lavender
as Janet
My House in Umbria
as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Minerva McGonagall
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Professor McGonagall
Gosford Park
as Constance Trentham
The Last September
as Lady Myra Naylor
Tea with Mussolini
as Lady Hester Random
All the King's Men
as Queen Alexandra
Curtain Call
as Lily Marlowe
Washington Square
as Aunt Lavinia Penniman
The First Wives Club
as Gunilla Garson Goldberg
Richard III
as Duchess of York
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Mother Superior
Suddenly, Last Summer
as Violet Venable
Sister Act
as Mother Superior
Memento Mori
as Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
Hook
as Granny Wendy
Romeo.Juliet
as Rosaline (voice)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Judith Hearne
A Room with a View
as Charlotte Bartlett
A Private Function
as Joyce Chilvers
Lily in Love
as Lily Wynn
Mrs. Silly
as Mrs Silly
Better Late Than Never
as Miss Anderson
Evil Under the Sun
as Daphne Castle
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Daphne Castle
The Missionary
as Lady Isabel Ames
Clash of the Titans
as Thetis
Quartet
as Lois Heidler
Death on the Nile
as Miss Bowers
California Suite
as Diana Barrie
Murder by Death
as Dora Charleston
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
as Lila Fisher
Travels with My Aunt
as Augusta Bertram
The Millionairess
as Epifania
The Merchant of Venice
as Portia
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Music Hall Star
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Jean Brodie
Hot Millions
as Patty Terwilliger Smith
The Honey Pot
as Sarah Watkins
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
Othello
as Desdemona
Young Cassidy
as Nora
The Pumpkin Eater
as Philpot
The V.I.P.s
as Miss Mead
Go to Blazes
as Chantal
Nowhere to Go
as Bridget Howard
Child in the House
as Party Guest (uncredited)