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Dame
Maggie Smith
CH DBE
Smith in a heavy coat
Smith in 2007
Born
Margaret Natalie Smith

(1934-12-28) 28 December 1934 (age 89)
Ilford, Essex, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active1952–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1967; div. 1975)​

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(m. 1975; d. 1998)​
ChildrenChris Larkin
Toby Stephens

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive career on stage, film, and television which began in the mid-1950s. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and over 70 plays, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the performing arts,[1] and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama.[2]

Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards: for The Private Ear, and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994) and A German Life (2019). She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010.

On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award.[3] She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories.[4] She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. She received four other Oscar nominations that were for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1986), and Gosford Park (2001).[5]

Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Her other films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting,[6][7] and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996.[5] She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012,[8] and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016.[9]

Early life

Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, Essex,[10][11][12][13][14] on 28 December 1934.[15] Her mother, Margaret Hutton (née Little; 1896–1977), was a Scottish secretary from Glasgow, and father, Nathaniel Smith (1902–1991), was a public health pathologist from Newcastle upon Tyne who worked at the University of Oxford.[10][16][17][18] During her childhood, Smith's parents told her the romantic story of how they had met on the train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle. She moved with her family to Oxford when she was four years old. She had older twin brothers, Alistair (died 1981) and Ian. The latter went to architecture school. Smith attended Oxford High School until age 16, when she left to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse.[19]

Career

In 1952, aged 17, under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Smith began her career as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. In 1954, she appeared in the television programme Oxford Accents produced by Ned Sherrin.[20] She appeared in her first film in 1956, in an uncredited role in Child in the House,[21] and made her Broadway debut the same year playing several roles in the review New Faces of '56, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from June to December 1956.[22][23] In 1957, she starred opposite Kenneth Williams in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, written by Bamber Gascoigne.[24] In 1959, she received the first of her 18 BAFTA Film and TV nominations for her role in the film Nowhere to Go.[3][5]

In 1962, Smith won the first of a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for her roles in Peter Shaffer's plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye, again opposite Kenneth Williams. She became a fixture at the Royal National Theatre in the 1960s, most notably for playing Desdemona in Othello opposite Laurence Olivier and earning her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1965 film version. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsen's The Master Builder, and played comedic roles in The Recruiting Officer and Much Ado About Nothing. Her other films at this time included Go to Blazes (1962), The V.I.P.s (1963), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Young Cassidy (1965), Hot Millions (1968), and Oh! What A Lovely War (1969).

Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role of the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Vanessa Redgrave had originated the role on stage in London,[25] and Zoe Caldwell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, when she played the role in New York. The role also won Smith her first BAFTA Award.[5] In 1970, she played the title role in Ingmar Bergman's London production of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler, winning her second Evening Standard award for Best Actress. She received her third Academy Award nomination for the 1972 film Travels with My Aunt. She also appeared in the film Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973). In the mid-1970s, she made several guest appearances on The Carol Burnett Show.

From 1976 to 1980, she appeared in numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, to acclaim; her roles included Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Virginia Woolf in Virginia, and opposite Brian Bedford in the Noël Coward comedy Private Lives.[26] Also during this time, she starred on Broadway in Private Lives in 1975 and Night and Day in 1979, receiving Tony Award nominations for both. Smith received the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Diana Barrie in California Suite. For this role, she also won her first Golden Globe Award. Afterward, upon hearing that Michael Palin was about to embark on the film The Missionary (1982) with Smith, her co-star Michael Caine is supposed to have humorously telephoned Palin, warning him that she would steal the film. Her other films at this time include Murder by Death (1976) and Death on the Nile (1978).

In 1981, Smith played the goddess Thetis in Clash of the Titans. For her role on television as Mrs Silly, she received the first of her four Best Actress BAFTA TV Award nominations.[5] On stage, she won her third and fourth Evening Standard awards for Best Actress, for Virginia in 1981 and The Way of the World in 1984. She won three more Best Actress BAFTA Awards for her roles as Joyce Chilvers in the 1984 black comedy A Private Function, Charlotte Bartlett in the 1986 Merchant Ivory production of A Room with a View, and the title role in the 1987 film The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.[5] For A Room With a View, she also received her fifth Academy Award nomination, and won her second Golden Globe Award. In 1987, she starred in A Bed Among the Lentils, part of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, receiving a second BAFTA TV nomination.[5] She starred in the 1987 London production of Lettice and Lovage alongside Margaret Tyzack, receiving an Olivier Award nomination, and reprised the role in 1990, when it transferred to Broadway, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The play was written specifically for her by the playwright Peter Shaffer.

In the 1990s, Smith appeared as Wendy Darling in the 1991 hit movie Hook, and also appeared in the hit comedy films Sister Act in 1992 and The First Wives Club in 1996. She also received a third BAFTA TV nomination for the 1992 TV film Memento Mori,[5] and her first Emmy nomination for her role in the 1993 TV film Suddenly, Last Summer. She won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 film Tea with Mussolini,[5] in which she played Lady Hester. She also appeared in the films The Secret Garden (1993), Richard III (1995), and Washington Square (1997). Her 1990s stage roles included Three Tall Women in 1994, which won her a fifth Evening Standard award, Claire in A Delicate Balance opposite Eileen Atkins in 1997, and The Lady in the Van in 1999.

Due to the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she is widely known for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall, opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the title role. She has appeared in seven of the eight films in the series from 2001 to 2011. She and Radcliffe had worked together previously in the 1999 BBC television adaptation of David Copperfield, in which she played Betsey Trotwood and received a BAFTA TV Award nomination.[5] She received her sixth Academy Award nomination for the 2001 film Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, and won her first Emmy Award for the 2003 TV film My House in Umbria. On stage, she starred as Madeleine Palmer, opposite Judi Dench, in the David Hare play The Breath of Life in 2002, toured Australia in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads in 2004, and starred in The Lady from Dubuque in 2007.

Beginning in 2010, Smith appeared as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the British period drama Downton Abbey. This role won her a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards.[27][28] In 2014, the role also won her a Screen Actors Guild Award.[29] In 2012, she played Muriel in the British comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and starred as Jean Horton in Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's play, directed by actor Dustin Hoffman.

In a March 2015 interview with Joe Utichi in The Sunday Times, Smith announced that the sixth season of Downton Abbey would be her last (it was in fact the last to be produced).[30] On 30 October 2015, Smith appeared on BBC's The Graham Norton Show, her first appearance on a chat show in 42 years. During the show, Smith discussed her appearance in the comedy-drama film The Lady in the Van, which was directed by Nicholas Hytner.[31][32]

In April 2019, Smith returned to the London stage for the first time in twelve years, starring in A German Life. The new play by Christopher Hampton was drawn from the life and testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel (1911–2017), in which Smith was alone on stage, performing a 100-minute-long monologue to the audience. Jonathan Kent took the directorial role.[33] Her performance won her a record sixth Best Actress Evening Standard Theatre Award.[34]

Personal life

Marriages

Smith married actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967. They had two sons, actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969),[18][failed verification] and were divorced on 6 April 1975.[35] Smith married playwright Beverley Cross on 23 June 1975, at the Guildford Register Office,[35] and they remained married until his death on 20 March 1998. When asked in 2013 if she was lonely, she replied that "it seems a bit pointless, going on on one's own, and not having someone to share it with".[36] Smith has five grandchildren.[37][38][39]

Health

In January 1988, Smith was diagnosed with Graves' disease, for which she underwent radiotherapy and optical surgery.[40]

In 2007, the Sunday Telegraph disclosed that Smith had been diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2009, she was reported to have made a full recovery.[41]

Charity work

In September 2011, Smith offered her support for raising the $4.6 million needed to help rebuild the Court Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the earthquake in 2011 that caused severe damage to the area.[42] In July 2012, she became a patron of the International Glaucoma Association, hoping to support the organisation and raise the profile of glaucoma.[43] On 27 November 2012, she contributed a drawing of her own hand to the 2012 Celebrity Paw Auction, to raise funds for Cats Protection.[44]

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Maggie Smith
Smith's handprints in Leicester Square in West End of London

Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours,[45][46] and was raised to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours, for services to the performing arts.[46][47] Smith was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to drama in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours,[48][49] becoming the third actress to receive the honour, after Sybil Thorndike (1970) and Judi Dench (2005).

In 1971, Smith was conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by University of St Andrews.[50] In 1986, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bath.[51] In 1994, Smith received an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Cambridge.[52] In October 2017, Smith was conferred with an Honorary Fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford.[53]

A six-time Academy Award nominee, Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of an idealistic, unorthodox schoolteacher in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1978 film California Suite.

She was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1991.[54] Smith was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture in 1992.[55] She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994. On 10 April 1999, Smith received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (The Will Award) presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in recognition of her significant contribution to classical theatre in the US.[56] On 9 February 2014 she was inducted into the Actors Hall of Fame.[57] Smith had a star on the London Avenue of Stars until all of the stars were removed in 2006.[58]

In 1993, she was awarded with the BAFTA Special Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.[5] In 1996, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented her with the BAFTA Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow.[59][5] At the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, she was celebrated with the Society of London Theatre Special Award. In 2013, she was awarded with the Evening Standard Icon Award.[60]

In September 2012, she was honoured with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award. She accepted the award, presented to her by Christopher Plummer, in a ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.[8] In March 2016, Smith was awarded the Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts.[61] In April 2016, she was awarded the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the performing arts.[9]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1956 Child in the House Party Guest
1958 Nowhere to Go Bridget Howard
1962 Go to Blazes Chantal
1963 The V.I.P.s Miss Mead
1964 The Pumpkin Eater Philpot
1965 Young Cassidy Nora
Othello Desdemona
1967 The Honey Pot Sarah Watkins
1968 Hot Millions Patty Terwilliger Smith
1969 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jean Brodie
Oh! What a Lovely War Music Hall Star
1972 Travels with My Aunt Aunt Augusta Bertram
1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing Lila Fisher
1976 Murder by Death Dora Charleston
1978 Death on the Nile Miss Bowers
California Suite Diana Barrie
1981 Quartet Lois Heidler
Clash of the Titans Thetis
1982 Evil Under the Sun Daphne Castle
The Missionary Lady Isabel Ames
1983 Better Late Than Never Miss Anderson
1984 Lily in Love Lily Wynn
A Private Function Joyce Chilvers
1985 A Room with a View Charlotte Bartlett
1987 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Judith Hearne
1990 Romeo.Juliet Rosaline Voice
1991 Hook Wendy Darling
1992 Sister Act Mother Superior
1993 The Secret Garden Mrs. Medlock
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Mother Superior
1995 Richard III Cecily Neville
1996 The First Wives Club Gunilla Garson Goldberg
1997 Washington Square Aunt Lavinia Penniman
1999 Curtain Call Lily Marlowe
Tea with Mussolini Lady Hester Random
The Last September Lady Myra Naylor
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Minerva McGonagall
Gosford Park Constance Trentham
2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Caro Eliza Bennett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Minerva McGonagall
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Ladies in Lavender Janet Widdington
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Minerva McGonagall
Keeping Mum Grace Hawkins
2007 Becoming Jane Lady Gresham
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Minerva McGonagall
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
From Time to Time Linnet Oldknow
2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Agatha Docherty
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet Lady Bluebury Voice
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Minerva McGonagall
2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Muriel Donnelly
Quartet Jean Horton
2014 My Old Lady Mathilde Girard
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Muriel Donnelly
The Lady in the Van Miss Shepherd
2018 Sherlock Gnomes Lady Bluebury Voice
Nothing Like a Dame Herself Documentary
2019 Downton Abbey Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
2020 A Boy Called Christmas Aunt Carlotta Post-production
2022 The Miracle Club Pre-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1955 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre Performer Episode: "The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business"
1956 Theatre Royal Paula Benson Episode: "Death Under the City"
The Adventures of Aggie Fiona Frobisher-Smith Episode: "Cobalt Blue"
1957 Sing for Your Supper Ann Carter Television Movie
Kraft Television Theatre Performer Episode: "Night of the Plague"
ITV Play of the Week Various roles 6 episodes: 1957–1960
On Stage – London Performer Episode: "Episode #1.3"
1958 Armchair Theatre Julie, The Girl, Anna Carnot 3 episodes: 1958–1960
1959 ITV Television Playhouse Doto, Elaine 2 episodes
1966 ITV Play of the Week Victoria Episode: "Home and Beauty"
1967 Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Television Movie
1968 Play of the Month Ann Whitefield Episode: Man and Superman, BBC
ITV Playhouse Mrs. Wislack Episode: "On Approval"
1972 The Merchant of Venice Portia Episode: Play of the Month, BBC
The Millionairess Epifania
1974-75 The Carol Burnett Show Various roles American TV debut; 3 episodes
1983 All for Love Mrs Silly Episode: "Mrs Silly"
1988 Talking Heads Susan Episode: "A Bed Among the Lentils"
1992 Screen Two Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew Episode: "Memento Mori"
1993 Great Performances Violet Venable Episode: "Suddenly, Last Summer"
1999 All the King's Men Queen Alexandra Television Movie, BBC
David Copperfield Betsey Trotwood Miniseries - 2 episodes
2002-05 Charlie Rose Guest 3 episodes
2003 My House in Umbria Emily Delahunty Television Movie, HBO
2007 Capturing Mary Mary Gilbert Television Movie, HBO
2010–15 Downton Abbey Violet Crawley,
Dowager Countess of Grantham 		Series - 52 episodes
2014 Fifty Years on Stage Mrs. Sullen Television Documentary
2015 The Graham Norton Show Guest Episode: Maggie Smith/Alex Jennings
2018 Nothing Like a Dame Self Documentary

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery Minerva McGonagall Voice

Theatre

See also

References

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