Maggie Smith

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Ilford, Essex, England, UK, 1934-12-28

Died: 2024-09-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Child in the House	Party Guest (uncredited)	58
2	1958	Nowhere to Go	Bridget Howard	67
3	1962	Go to Blazes	Chantal	63
4	1963	The V.I.P.s	Miss Mead	61
5	1964	The Pumpkin Eater	Philpot	67
6	1965	Olivier Talks About Othello	(archive footage)	0
7	1965	Young Cassidy	Nora	63
8	1965	Othello	Desdemona	64
9	1967	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	55
10	1967	The Honey Pot	Sarah Watkins	65
11	1968	Hot Millions	Patty Terwilliger Smith	66
12	1969	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Jean Brodie	69
13	1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Music Hall Star	68
14	1972	The Merchant of Venice	Portia	70
15	1972	The Millionairess	Epifania	85
16	1972	Travels with My Aunt	Augusta Bertram	59
17	1973	Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing	Lila Fisher	59
18	1976	Murder by Death	Dora Charleston	72
19	1978	Death on the Nile	Miss Bowers	71
20	1978	California Suite	Diana Barrie	58
21	1981	Clash of the Titans	Thetis	69
22	1981	Quartet	Lois Heidler	58
23	1982	The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'	Self / Daphne Castle	85
24	1982	Evil Under the Sun	Daphne Castle	69
25	1982	The Missionary	Lady Isabel Ames	56
26	1983	Better Late Than Never	Miss Anderson	38
27	1983	Mrs. Silly	Mrs Silly	100
28	1984	Lily in Love	Lily Wynn	60
29	1984	A Private Function	Joyce Chilvers	63
30	1986	A Room with a View	Charlotte Bartlett	69
31	1987	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	Judith Hearne	66
32	1988	Talking Heads		50
33	1990	Romeo.Juliet	Rosaline (voice)	50
34	1991	Hook	Granny Wendy	68
35	1992	Memento Mori	Mrs Mabel Pettigrew	62
36	1992	Sister Act	Mother Superior	68
37	1993	Suddenly, Last Summer	Violet Venable	68
38	1993	The Secret Garden	Mrs. Medlock	74
39	1993	Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit	Mother Superior	64
40	1995	Richard III	Duchess of York	67
41	1996	The First Wives Club	Gunilla Garson Goldberg	67
42	1997	Washington Square	Aunt Lavinia Penniman	62
43	1998	Curtain Call	Lily Marlowe	50
44	1999	Tea with Mussolini	Lady Hester Random	64
45	1999	All the King's Men	Queen Alexandra	62
46	2000	The Last September	Lady Myra Naylor	52
47	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Minerva McGonagall	79
48	2001	Gosford Park	Constance Trentham	68
49	2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Caro Bennett	61
50	2002	The Making of 'Gosford Park'	Self (uncredited)	50
51	2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Minerva McGonagall	77
52	2003	My House in Umbria	Mrs. Emily Delahunty	61
53	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Minerva McGonagall	80
54	2004	The Magic Touch of Harry Potter	Self	76
55	2004	Ladies in Lavender	Janet	64
56	2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Minerva McGonagall	78
57	2005	Keeping Mum	Grace Hawkins	67
58	2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")	0
59	2007	Becoming Jane	Lady Gresham	73
60	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Minerva McGonagall	77
61	2007	Capturing Mary	Mary Gilbert	63
62	2008	Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait	Self (archival footage)	77
63	2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Minerva McGonagall	77
64	2009	From Time to Time	Linnet	63
65	2010	Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang	Agatha Rose Doherty	63
66	2011	Gnomeo & Juliet	Lady Bluebury (voice)	59
67	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	Minerva McGonagall	81
68	2012	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Muriel Donnelly	69
69	2012	Quartet	Jean Horton	65
70	2013	National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage	Mrs. Sullen	63
71	2014	My Old Lady	Mathilde Girard	62
72	2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Muriel Donnelly	64
73	2015	The Lady in the Van	Miss Shepherd	64
74	2015	Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC	Self (archive material)	50
75	2016	Robin And Mark And Richard III	Self	90
76	2017	Woolf Works	Reading (voice)	20
77	2017	Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches	Self	0
78	2018	Sherlock Gnomes	Lady Bluebury (voice)	57
79	2018	Nothing Like a Dame	Self	68
80	2019	Downton Abbey	Violet Crawley	71
81	2019	Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event	Self	71
82	2021	A Boy Called Christmas	Aunt Ruth	73
83	2022	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Violet Crawley	72
84	2022	The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration	Self	80
85	2022	A German Life	Brunhilde Pomsel	0
86	2023	Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story	Self (archive footage)	64
87	2023	The Miracle Club	Lily Fox	62
88	2024	Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration	Self / Various Roles (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		75
3	1950	Sunday Night Theatre		35
4	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
5	1955	Lilli Palmer Theatre	Paula Benson	0
6	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
7	1956	Tony Awards	Self (archive footage)	51
8	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Performer/Winner	51
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
10	1956	Armchair Theatre	Anna Carnot	58
11	1956	Armchair Theatre	Juliet Denise	58
12	1956	Armchair Theatre	The Girl	58
13	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Ann Whitefield	50
14	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Portia	50
15	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Epifana	50
16	1967	The Carol Burnett Show	Self	77
17	1971	Great Performances	Violet Venable	53
18	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
19	1981	Entertainment Tonight	Self	43
20	1985	Screen Two	Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew	68
21	1988	Talking Heads	Susan	62
22	1991	Performance	Mrs Venable	60
23	1999	David Copperfield	Betsey Trotwood	71
24	2006	Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe	Self	60
25	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
26	2009	Creating the World of Harry Potter	Self - 'Professor Minerva McGonagall'	100
27	2010	Downton Abbey	Violet Crawley	81
28	2012	Honest Trailers	Minerva McGonagall (archive footage)	65
29	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50

Maggie Smith

Film

Television