Dame Maggie Smith

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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (1934-2024) was an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career on stage, film, and television, spanning over 68 years. Smith appeared in more than 60 films, 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, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama.

(born 28 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress. She had an extensive career both on screen and in live theatre, and is known as one of Britain's preeminent actors. She made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 60 years. She won numerous awards for acting, both for the stage and for film, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards and two special awards including the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996), two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.

Her critically acclaimed films include Othello (1965), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She has also appeared in a number of widely popular films, including Hook (1991), both Sister Act films, and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series. She stared in the critically acclaimed drama Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she won a Golden Globe and two consecutive Emmy awards.

In September 2012, she was honoured with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Legacy Award.[1] She accepted the award, presented to her by Christopher Plummer, in a star-studded ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

Early life

Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, London. She is the daughter of Margaret Smith (née Hutton), a Glasgow-born secretary, and Nathaniel Smith, a Newcastle upon Tyne-born public health pathologist who worked at Oxford University.[2][3][4][5][6] She has older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian, who went to architecture school.[7] Maggie studied at Oxford High School.

Career

In 1952, under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Smith began her career as Viola at the Oxford Playhouse and made her first film in 1956.[8] Her first professional performance was on Broadway in the review New Faces of '56.[9] 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 with Ronnie Barker at the Oxford Playhouse in the play The Housemaster and various others. Barker did not think much of her, saying "she only had two styles – either grand and rather camp, or sharp cockney".[10]

Smith as Jean Brodie.In 1969, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a role originally created on stage by Vanessa Redgrave in 1966 in London. (Zoe Caldwell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play when she created the role in New York.) Smith was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine. Afterward, on hearing that Michael Palin was about to embark on a film (The Missionary) with Smith, Caine is supposed to have humorously telephoned Palin, warning him that she would steal the film. She also starred with Palin in the black comedy A Private Function in 1984.

Smith appeared in Sister Act in 1992 and had a major role in the 1999 film Tea with Mussolini, where she appeared as the formidable Lady Hester. Indeed, many of her more mature roles have centred on what Smith refers to as her "gallery of grotesques", playing waspish, sarcastic or plain rude characters. Recent examples of this would include the judgmental sister in Ladies in Lavender and the cantankerous snob Constance, Countess of Trentham, in Gosford Park, for which she received another Oscar nomination.

Smith was author J. K. Rowling's personal choice for the role of McGonagall in the Harry Potter series.Other notable roles include the querulous Charlotte Bartlett in the Merchant Ivory production of A Room with a View, a vivid supporting turn as the aged Duchess of York in Ian McKellen's film of Richard III, and a little known but powerful performance as Lila Fisher in the 1973 film Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing with Timothy Bottoms. Due to the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she is now widely known for playing the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall, opposite Daniel Radcliffe, with whom she had previously worked in the 1999 BBC television adaptation of David Copperfield, playing Betsey Trotwood. She also plays an older Wendy in the Peter Pan movie Hook, and Mrs. Medlock in The Secret Garden.

In 2010, she started appearing as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the British period drama Downton Abbey, which is currently in its third series.

In 2012, she earned another Golden Globe Awards nomination (her ninth) for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for series 1 of Downton Abbey.[11] Smith has won two Emmy Awards for this role.[12] In 2013, she received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Downton Abbey season 2.[13]

She appeared in numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, to acclaim from 1976 through 1980. These roles included Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Virginia Woolf in Virginia, and countless lead roles with long-time Stratford icon Brian Bedford including the Noël Coward comedy Private Lives. In September 2012, Smith received the prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival Legacy Award, recognizing her career.

On stage, her many roles have included the title character in the stage production of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van and starring as Amanda in a revival of Private Lives. She won a Tony Award in 1990 for Best Actress in a Play for Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage, in which she starred as an eccentric tour guide in an English stately home. In 2007, she appeared in Edward Albee's The Lady from Dubuque at Theatre Royal Haymarket.

She appeared in a 1954 BBC television programme, Oxford Accents, produced by the late Ned Sherrin.[14] She was one of the performers, playing several roles, in New Faces of 1956 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from 14 June to 22 December 1956.[15][16] She was "in Orange" in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, based on the book by Bamber Gascoigne, that opened at the Lyric Hammersmith on 21 August 1957. With Anthony Bowles as musical director, it transferred to the Comedy Theatre on 25 September 1957 and to the Garrick Theatre on 27 January 1958. Smith's musical numbers in this performance included: Love's Cocktail (solo), On Train He'll Come (solo), Party Games (solo), Bubble Man (with Kenneth Williams) and Menu (with Kenneth Williams).[17] Eight photos from this performance as well as an article on Smith appeared in the November 1957 issue of Theatre World magazine.[18] One of Smith's earliest acting citations was as nominee for Most Promising Newcomer to Film of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Nowhere To Go in 1958.[19] In Hollywood, Smith was a nominee for the Golden Globe Awards New Star of the Year (Actress) in 1964 for her performance in The V.I.P.s.

In 2012, Smith played Muriel in the British comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. She also starred as Jean Horton in Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's play, directed by Dustin Hoffman.

Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours[20] and was raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours.[21]

In 1986, she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Bath.[22] She also received honorary degrees from the University of St Andrews in 1971 and the University of Cambridge in 1995.[23]

Personal life

Smith has been married twice. She married actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967 at Greenwich Register Office, ten days after their first child was born. The couple had two sons, actors Chris Larkin (born in 1967) and Toby Stephens (born in 1969),[5] and divorced on 6 May 1974.[5] Smith is a grandmother via both her sons.[24][25]

She married playwright Beverley Cross on 23 August 1975 at the Guildford Register Office; he died on 20 March 1998.

In 2007, the Sunday Telegraph's Mandrake diary disclosed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She was subsequently reported to have made a full recovery.[26]

Smith has also been involved in charity work. In September 2011, she offered her support for raising the $4.6 million needed to rebuild the Court Theatre in New Zealand after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake.[27] In July 2012, she became a patron of the International Glaucoma Association, hoping to support the organisation and raise the profile of glaucoma.[28] On the 27th November 2012, Smith contributed a unique piece of art – a drawing of her own hand – to the 2012 Celebrity Paw Auction, in order to raise funds for Cats Protection. [29]

Filmography

Television and cinema

Year Title Role Notes
1958 Nowhere to Go Bridget Howard Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer 1962 Go to Blazes Chantal 1963 V.I.P.s, TheThe V.I.P.s Miss Mead Nominated — Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress 1964 Pumpkin Eater, TheThe Pumpkin Eater Philpot 1965 Othello Desdemona Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Young Cassidy Nora Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1967 Honey Pot, TheThe Honey Pot Sarah Watkins 1968 Man and Superman Ann Whitefield TV movie (BBC play of the month) Hot Millions Patty Terwilliger Smith The Seagull Irina Arkadina TV movie (BBC play of the month) 1969 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, TheThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jean Brodie Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Oh! What a Lovely War Music Hall Star Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (3rd place) 1972 The Merchant of Venice Portia TV movie (BBC play of the month) The Millionairess Epifania TV movie (BBC play of the month) Travels with My Aunt Aunt Augusta Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing Lila Fisher 1974 Carol Burnett Show, TheThe Carol Burnett Show Gwendylspire Boughgrough 1975 Carol Burnett Show, TheThe Carol Burnett Show Ms. Collins 1976 Murder by Death Dora Charleston 1978 Death on the Nile Miss Bowers Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role California Suite Diana Barrie Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (runner-up) 1981 Quartet Lois Heidler Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Clash of the Titans Thetis Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress 1982 Evil Under the Sun Daphne Castle Missionary, TheThe Missionary Lady Isabel Ames 1983 Better Late Than Never Miss Anderson All for Love Mrs Silly TV series (1 episode) Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 1984 Private Function, AA Private Function Joyce Chilvers BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Lily in Love Lily Wynn 1985 Room with a View, AA Room with a View Charlotte Bartlett BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1987 Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, TheThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Judith Hearne BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress 1988 Talking Heads: A Bed Among the Lentils Susan TV series (1 episode) Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 1991 Hook Wendy Darling 1992 Sister Act Reverend Mother Memento Mori Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew TV movie Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 1993 Suddenly, Last Summer Violet Venable TV movie Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Reverend Mother Secret Garden, TheThe Secret Garden Mrs. Medlock Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 1995 Richard III Duchess of York 1996 First Wives Club, TheThe First Wives Club Gunilla Garson Goldberg National Board of Review Award for Best Cast 1997 Washington Square Aunt Lavinia Penniman Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress 1999 Curtain Call Lily Gale Last September, TheThe Last September Lady Myra Naylor Tea with Mussolini Lady Hester Random BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role All the King's Men Queen Alexandra David Copperfield Betsey Trotwood TV mini-series Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie 2001 Gosford Park Constance, Countess of Trentham Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (runner-up) Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Professor Minerva McGonagall Released in the US and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Professor Minerva McGonagall Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Caro Eliza Bennett 2003 My House in Umbria Emily Delahunty TV movie Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Professor Minerva McGonagall Ladies in Lavender Janet Widdington Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actress 2005 Keeping Mum Grace Hawkins Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Professor Minerva McGonagall 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Professor Minerva McGonagall Becoming Jane Lady Gresham Capturing Mary Mary Gilbert TV movie Nominated — Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Professor Minerva McGonagall From Time to Time Linnet Oldknow 2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Mrs. Docherty Downton Abbey Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham TV series (25 episodes: 2010-present) Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2012) Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2012) Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2012) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2012) Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (2011) TV Times Award for Best Actress (2011) Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress (2012) Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (2012) Nominated — Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress (2011) Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2011) Nominated — Monte-Carlo Television Festival Award for Outstanding Actress (2011)[30] Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2011) Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie (2011) 2011 Gnomeo & Juliet Lady Bluebury Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Professor Minerva McGonagall 2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Muriel Donnelly Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Comedic Actress Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble Nominated — British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Quartet Jean Horton Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Theatre roles

Twelfth Night, Oxford Playhouse, 1952 He Who Gets Slapped, Clarendon Press Institute, 1952 Cinderella, Oxford Playhouse, 1952 Rookery Nook, Oxford Playhouse, 1953 The Housemaster, Oxford Playhouse, 1953 Cakes and Ale (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1953 The Love of Four Colonels, Oxford Playhouse, 1953 The Ortolan, Maxton Hall, 1954 Don’t Listen Ladies, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 The Government Inspector, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 The Letter, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 A Man About The House, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 On the Mile (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1954 Oxford Accents, New Watergate Theatre, London, 1954 Theatre 1900, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 Listen to the Wind, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 The Magistrate, Oxford Playhouse, 1955 The School For Scandal, Oxford Playhouse, 1955 New Faces of '56 (revue), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1956 Share My Lettuce (revue), Lyric Hammersmith and Comedy Theatre, 1957 The Stepmother, St. Martin's Theatre, 1958 The Double Dealer, Old Vic, 1959 As You Like It, Old Vic, 1959 Richard II, Old Vic, 1959 The Merry Wives of Windsor, Old Vic, 1959 What Every Woman Knows, Old Vic, 1960 Rhinoceros, Strand Theatre, 1960 Strip the Willow, UK Tour, 1960 The Rehearsal, Bristol Old Vic and Globe Theatre, 1961 The Private Ear and The Public Eye, Globe Theatre, 1962 Mary, Mary, Queen's Theatre, 1963 The Recruiting Officer, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1963 Othello, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964 The Master Builder, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964 Hay Fever, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964 Much Ado About Nothing, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965 Trelawney of the Wells, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965 Miss Julie, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966 Black Comedy, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966 A Bond Honoured, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966

The Country Wife, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1969  The Beaux Stratagem, National Theatre/Old Vic and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1970  Hedda Gabler, National Theatre/Cambridge Theatre, 1970  Design For Living, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1971  Private Lives, Queen's Theatre, 1972  Peter Pan, London Coliseum, 1973  Snap, Vaudeville Theatre, 1974  Private Lives, US tour and 46th Street Theatre, New York, 1975 [Tony nomination]  The Way of the World, Stratford, Canada, 1976  Antony and Cleopatra, Stratford, Canada, 1976  Three Sisters, Stratford, Canada, 1976  The Guardsman, Stratford, Canada and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1976  A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stratford, Canada and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1977  Richard III, Stratford, Canada, 1977  As You Like It, Stratford, Canada, 1977  Hay Fever, Stratford, Canada, 1977  Macbeth, Stratford, Canada, 1978  Private Lives, Stratford, Canada, 1978  Night and Day, Phoenix Theatre, Washington D.C. and ANTA Playhouse, New York, 1979 [Tony nomination]  Much Ado About Nothing, Stratford, Canada, 1980  The Seagull, Stratford, Canada, 1980  Virginia, Stratford, Canada, 1980 and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1981  The Way of the World, Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1984  The Interpreters, Queen's Theatre, 1985  The Infernal Machine, Lyric Hammersmith, 1986  Coming Into Land, National Theatre/Lyttelton, 1987  Lettice and Lovage, Globe Theatre, 1987  Lettice and Lovage, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1990 [Tony win]  The Importance of Being Earnest, Aldwych Theatre, 1993  Three Tall Women, Wyndham's Theatre, 1994 and 1995  Talking Heads, Chichester Festival Theatre and Comedy Theatre, 1996  A Delicate Balance, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1997  The Lady in the Van, Queen's Theatre, 1999  The Breath of Life, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2002  Talking Heads, Australian tour, 2004  The Lady From Dubuque, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2007 

Awards and nominations

List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Tale Spinners for Children University College Players

References

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External links

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• Ethnicity: English people
• Residence: Ilford
• Residence: London