Maggie Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 28, 1934
- Died
- Sep 27, 2024 (aged 89)
- Place of birth
- Ilford, Essex, England, UK
- Credits
- 110
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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Known for
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001Movie
Professor McGonagall
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Filmography
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024Movie
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The Miracle Club
2023Movie
Lily Fox
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022Movie
Self
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022Movie
Violet Crawley
A Boy Called Christmas
2021Movie
Aunt Ruth
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
2019Movie
Self
Downton Abbey
2019Movie
Violet Crawley
Nothing Like a Dame
2018Movie
Self
Sherlock Gnomes
2018Movie
Lady Bluebury (voice)
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017Movie
Self
Woolf Works
2017Movie
Reading (voice)
Robin And Mark And Richard III
2016Movie
Self
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015Movie
Self (archive material)
The Lady in the Van
2015Movie
Miss Shepherd
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015Movie
Muriel Donnelly
My Old Lady
2014Movie
Mathilde Girard
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013Movie
Mrs. Sullen
Talking Pictures
2013TV
Self (archive footage)
Quartet
2012Movie
Jean Horton
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012Movie
Muriel Donnelly
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011Movie
Lady Bluebury (voice)
Downton Abbey
2010TV
Violet Crawley
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010Movie
Mrs. Docherty
From Time to Time
2009Movie
Linnet
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
2008Movie
Self (archival footage)
Capturing Mary
2007Movie
Mary Gilbert
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Becoming Jane
2007Movie
Lady Gresham
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe
2006TV
Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006Movie
Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
Keeping Mum
2005Movie
Grace Hawkins
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005Movie
Minerva McGonagall
Ladies in Lavender
2004Movie
Janet
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004Movie
Self
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004Movie
Minerva McGonagall
My House in Umbria
2003Movie
Mrs. Emily Delahunty
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002Movie
Minerva McGonagall
The Making of Gosford Park
2002Movie
Self (uncredited)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002Movie
Caro
Gosford Park
2001Movie
Constance Trentham
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001Movie
Professor McGonagall
The Last September
2000Movie
Lady Myra Naylor
David Copperfield
1999TV
Betsey Trotwood
All the King's Men
1999Movie
Queen Alexandra
Tea with Mussolini
1999Movie
Lady Hester Random
Curtain Call
1998Movie
Lily Marlowe
Washington Square
1997Movie
Aunt Lavinia Penniman
The First Wives Club
1996Movie
Gunilla Garson Goldberg
Richard III
1995Movie
Duchess of York
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993Movie
Mother Superior
The Secret Garden
1993Movie
Mrs. Medlock
Suddenly, Last Summer
1993Movie
Violet Venable
Sister Act
1992Movie
Mother Superior
Memento Mori
1992Movie
Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
Performance
1991TV
Mrs Venable
Hook
1991Movie
Granny Wendy
Romeo.Juliet
1990Movie
Rosaline (voice)
Talking Heads
1988Movie
Talking Heads
1988TV
Susan
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987Movie
Judith Hearne
A Room with a View
1986Movie
Charlotte Bartlett
Screen Two
1985TV
Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
A Private Function
1984Movie
Joyce Chilvers
Lily in Love
1984Movie
Lily Wynn
Mrs. Silly
1983Movie
Mrs Silly
Better Late Than Never
1983Movie
Miss Anderson
The Missionary
1982Movie
Lady Isabel Ames
All for Love
1982TV
Mrs. Silly
Evil Under the Sun
1982Movie
Daphne Castle
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982Movie
Self / Daphne Castle
Quartet
1981Movie
Lois Heidler
Entertainment Tonight
1981TV
Self
Clash of the Titans
1981Movie
Thetis
Death on the Nile
1978Movie
Miss Bowers
California Suite
1978Movie
Diana Barrie
Murder by Death
1976Movie
Dora Charleston
Dinah!
1974TV
Self
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
1973Movie
Lila Fisher
Travels with My Aunt
1972Movie
Augusta Bertram
The Millionairess
1972Movie
Epifania
The Merchant of Venice
1972Movie
Portia
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Great Performances
1971TV
Violet Venable
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969Movie
Music Hall Star
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969Movie
Jean Brodie
Hot Millions
1968Movie
Patty Terwilliger Smith
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Mrs. Wislack
The Carol Burnett Show
1967TV
Self
The Honey Pot
1967Movie
Sarah Watkins
Much Ado About Nothing
1967Movie
Beatrice
Othello
1965Movie
Desdemona
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Ann Whitefield, Portia, Epifana
Young Cassidy
1965Movie
Nora
Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland
1965Movie
self
The Pumpkin Eater
1964Movie
Philpot
The V.I.P.s
1963Movie
Miss Mead
Go to Blazes
1962Movie
Chantal
Nowhere to Go
1958Movie
Bridget Howard
Child in the House
1956Movie
Party Guest (uncredited)
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Anna Carnot, Juliet Denise, The Girl
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Performer / Winner, Self (archive footage)
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955TV
Paula Benson
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Sunday Night Theatre
1950TV
Kraft Television Theatre
1947TV
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee