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Maggie Smith
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 scr…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2024
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Movie Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
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2023
The Miracle Club
Movie Lily Fox
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2023
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Movie Self
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2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Movie Violet Crawley
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2021
A Boy Called Christmas
Movie Aunt Ruth
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2019
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
Movie Self
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2019
Downton Abbey
Movie Violet Crawley
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2018
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie Self
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2018
Sherlock Gnomes
Movie Lady Bluebury (voice)
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2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Movie Self
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2017
Woolf Works
Movie Reading (voice)
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2016
Robin And Mark And Richard III
Movie Self
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2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie Self (archive material)
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2015
The Lady in the Van
Movie Miss Shepherd
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2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Movie Muriel Donnelly
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2014
My Old Lady
Movie Mathilde Girard
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2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie Mrs. Sullen
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2013
Talking Pictures
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2012
Quartet
Movie Jean Horton
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2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Movie Muriel Donnelly
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2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie Minerva McGonagall
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2011
Gnomeo & Juliet
Movie Lady Bluebury (voice)
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2010
Downton Abbey
TV show Violet Crawley
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2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Movie Mrs. Docherty
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2009
From Time to Time
Movie Linnet
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2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Movie Minerva McGonagall
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2008
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2007
Capturing Mary
Movie Mary Gilbert
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2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie Minerva McGonagall
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2007
Becoming Jane
Movie Lady Gresham
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2007
The Graham Norton Show
TV show Self
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2006
Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe
TV show Self
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2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
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2005
Keeping Mum
Movie Grace Hawkins
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2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Movie Minerva McGonagall
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2004
Ladies in Lavender
Movie Janet
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2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Movie Self
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2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie Minerva McGonagall
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2003
My House in Umbria
Movie Mrs. Emily Delahunty
