Cast
Maggie Smith
Acting
Cast
Maggie Smith
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-12-28
From
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Died
2024-09-27
Also known as Margaret Natalie Smith, Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Меггі Сміт
Biography
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.
★7.9
MOVIE2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Minerva McGonagall
★7.7
MOVIE2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Minerva McGonagall
★7.8
MOVIE2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Minerva McGonagall
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Minerva McGonagall
★8.1
MOVIE2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Minerva McGonagall
★7.7
MOVIE2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Minerva McGonagall
★7.7
MOVIE2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Minerva McGonagall
★6.8
MOVIE1991
Hook
as Granny Wendy
★7.1
MOVIE1978
Death on the Nile
as Miss Bowers
★6.8
MOVIE1992
Sister Act
as Mother Superior
★6.9
MOVIE1981
Clash of the Titans
as Thetis
★6.7
MOVIE1996
The First Wives Club
as Gunilla Garson Goldberg
★6.3
MOVIE2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Agatha Rose Doherty
★6.4
MOVIE1993
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Mother Superior
★5.9
MOVIE2011
Gnomeo & Juliet
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE1993
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
★7.1
MOVIE2019
Downton Abbey
as Violet Crawley
★7.2
MOVIE2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Violet Crawley
★6.8
MOVIE2001
Gosford Park
as Constance Trentham
★7.0
MOVIE2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly
★7.0
MOVIE1986
A Room with a View
as Charlotte Bartlett
★5.7
MOVIE2018
Sherlock Gnomes
as Lady Bluebury (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2021
A Boy Called Christmas
as Aunt Ruth
★6.3
MOVIE2023
The Miracle Club
as Lily Fox
★6.7
MOVIE2005
Keeping Mum
as Grace Hawkins
★6.9
MOVIE1982
Evil Under the Sun
as Daphne Castle
★7.3
MOVIE2007
Becoming Jane
as Lady Gresham
★6.2
MOVIE2014
My Old Lady
as Mathilde Girard
★6.4
MOVIE2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly
★7.2
MOVIE1976
Murder by Death
as Dora Charleston
★6.5
MOVIE2004
Ladies in Lavender
as Janet
★6.6
MOVIE1968
Hot Millions
as Patty Terwilliger Smith
★6.5
MOVIE2012
Quartet
as Jean Horton
★6.3
MOVIE2007
Capturing Mary
as Mary Gilbert
★6.4
MOVIE2015
The Lady in the Van
as Miss Shepherd
★7.5
MOVIE1990
Romeo.Juliet
as Rosaline (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1967
The Honey Pot
as Sarah Watkins
★6.7
MOVIE1964
The Pumpkin Eater
as Philpot
★6.4
MOVIE2023
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
as Self (archive footage)
★8.5
MOVIE1972
The Merchant of Venice
as Portia
★6.3
MOVIE2009
From Time to Time
as Linnet
★6.6
MOVIE1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Music Hall Star
★6.9
MOVIE1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Jean Brodie
★5.6
MOVIE1982
The Missionary
as Lady Isabel Ames
★6.8
MOVIE1995
Richard III
as Duchess of York
★6.4
MOVIE1984
A Private Function
as Joyce Chilvers
MOVIE2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
as Caro
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Tea with Mussolini
as Lady Hester Random
★5.8
MOVIE1978
California Suite
as Diana Barrie
★6.4
MOVIE1965
Young Cassidy
as Nora
★6.2
MOVIE1997
Washington Square
as Aunt Lavinia Penniman
★10.0
MOVIE1965
Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland
as self
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Suddenly, Last Summer
as Violet Venable
★6.8
MOVIE2018
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1984
Lily in Love
as Lily Wynn
★5.8
MOVIE1981
Quartet
as Lois Heidler
★9.0
MOVIE2016
Robin And Mark And Richard III
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1972
Travels with My Aunt
as Augusta Bertram
★6.3
MOVIE1967
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
★6.6
MOVIE1956
Child in the House
as Party Guest (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1999
All the King's Men
as Queen Alexandra
★7.7
MOVIE2008
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
as Self (archival footage)
★6.1
MOVIE2003
My House in Umbria
as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
★6.3
MOVIE1992
Memento Mori
as Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
★5.2
MOVIE2000
The Last September
as Lady Myra Naylor
★4.8
MOVIE1983
Better Late Than Never
as Miss Anderson
★5.3
MOVIE2002
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1963
The V.I.P.s
as Miss Mead
★6.2
MOVIE2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Mrs. Sullen
★8.5
MOVIE1972
The Millionairess
as Epifania
★5.1
MOVIE1998
Curtain Call
as Lily Marlowe
★4.5
MOVIE2024
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
★2.0
MOVIE2017
Woolf Works
as Reading (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1965
Othello
as Desdemona
★6.6
MOVIE1958
Nowhere to Go
as Bridget Howard
★7.7
MOVIE2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1962
Go to Blazes
as Chantal
MOVIE2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
★6.6
MOVIE1987
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Judith Hearne
★5.0
MOVIE2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
★5.0
MOVIE1988
Talking Heads
★6.1
MOVIE1973
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
as Lila Fisher
★10.0
MOVIE1983
Mrs. Silly
as Mrs Silly
★8.3
MOVIE1982
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Daphne Castle
MOVIE1965
Olivier Talks About Othello
as (archive footage)
★7.2
MOVIE2019
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
as Self