Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born December 28, 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, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama. 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. 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. 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). 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, 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. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Year | Media type | Title | Character |
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2023 | Movie | The Miracle Club | Lily Fox |
2023 | Movie | Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story | Self (archive footage) |
2022 | Movie | A German Life | Brunhilde Pomsel |
2022 | Movie | The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration | Herself |
2022 | Movie | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Violet Crawley |
2021 | Movie | A Boy Called Christmas | Aunt Ruth |
2019 | Movie | Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event | - |
2019 | Movie | Downton Abbey | Violet Crawley |
2018 | Movie | Nothing Like a Dame | Herself |
2018 | Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Lady Bluebury (voice) |
2017 | Movie | Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches | Herself |
2017 | Movie | Woolf Works | Reading (voice) |
2016 | Movie | Robin And Mark And Richard III | Herself |
2015 | Movie | Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive material) |
2015 | Movie | The Lady in the Van | Miss Shepherd |
2015 | Movie | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Muriel Donnelly |
2014 | Movie | My Old Lady | Mathilde Girard |
2013 | Movie | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Mrs. Sullen |
2013 | Tv Show | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) |
2012 | Movie | Quartet | Jean Horton |
2012 | Movie | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Muriel Donnelly |
2012 | Tv Show | Honest Trailers | Minerva McGonagall (archive footage) |
2011 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Minerva McGonagall |
2011 | Movie | Gnomeo & Juliet | Lady Bluebury (voice) |
2010 | Tv Show | Downton Abbey | Violet Crawley |
2010 | Movie | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Agatha Rose Doherty |
2009 | Movie | From Time to Time | Linnet |
2009 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Minerva McGonagall |
2008 | Movie | Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait | Self (archival footage) |
2007 | Movie | Capturing Mary | Mary Gilbert |
2007 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Minerva McGonagall |
2007 | Movie | Becoming Jane | Lady Gresham |
2007 | Tv Show | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
2006 | Tv Show | Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe | - |
2006 | Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage") |
2005 | Movie | Keeping Mum | Grace Hawkins |
2005 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Minerva McGonagall |
2004 | Movie | Ladies in Lavender | Janet |
2004 | Movie | The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self |
2004 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Minerva McGonagall |
2003 | Movie | My House in Umbria | Mrs. Emily Delahunty |
2002 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Minerva McGonagall |
2002 | Movie | The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self (uncredited) |
2002 | Movie | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Caro Bennett |
2001 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Minerva McGonagall |
2001 | Movie | Gosford Park | Constance Trentham |
2000 | Movie | The Last September | Lady Myra Naylor |
1999 | Tv Show | David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood |
1999 | Movie | All the King's Men | Queen Alexandra |
1999 | Movie | Tea with Mussolini | Lady Hester Random |
1998 | Movie | Curtain Call | Lily Marlowe |
1997 | Movie | Washington Square | Aunt Lavinia Penniman |
1996 | Movie | The First Wives Club | Gunilla Garson Goldberg |
1995 | Movie | Richard III | Duchess of York |
1993 | Movie | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Mother Superior |
1993 | Movie | The Secret Garden | Mrs. Medlock |
1993 | Movie | Suddenly, Last Summer | Violet Venable |
1992 | Movie | Sister Act | Mother Superior |
1992 | Movie | Memento Mori | Mrs Mabel Pettigrew |
1991 | Movie | Hook | Granny Wendy |
1990 | Movie | Romeo.Juliet | Rosaline (voice) |
1988 | Tv Show | Talking Heads | Susan |
1988 | Movie | Talking Heads | - |
1987 | Movie | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Judith Hearne |
1986 | Movie | A Room with a View | Charlotte Bartlett |
1984 | Movie | A Private Function | Joyce Chilvers |
1984 | Movie | Lily in Love | Lily Wynn |
1983 | Movie | Mrs. Silly | Mrs Silly |
1983 | Movie | Better Late Than Never | Miss Anderson |
1982 | Movie | The Missionary | Lady Isabel Ames |
1982 | Movie | Evil Under the Sun | Daphne Castle |
1982 | Movie | The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' | Self / Daphne Castle |
1981 | Movie | Quartet | Lois Heidler |
1981 | Tv Show | Entertainment Tonight | Self |
1981 | Movie | Clash of the Titans | Thetis |
1978 | Movie | California Suite | Diana Barrie |
1978 | Movie | Death on the Nile | Miss Bowers |
1978 | Movie | Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette | Miss Bowers (archive footage) |
1976 | Movie | Murder by Death | Dora Charleston |
1973 | Movie | Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | Lila Fisher |
1972 | Movie | Travels with My Aunt | Augusta Bertram |
1972 | Movie | The Millionairess | Epifania |
1972 | Movie | The Merchant of Venice | Portia |
1971 | Tv Show | Great Performances | Violet Venable |
1969 | Movie | Oh! What a Lovely War | Music Hall Star |
1969 | Movie | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jean Brodie |
1968 | Movie | Hot Millions | Patty Terwilliger Smith |
1967 | Tv Show | The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest / Various Characters |
1967 | Tv Show | The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest |
1967 | Tv Show | The Carol Burnett Show | Self |
1967 | Movie | The Honey Pot | Sarah Watkins |
1967 | Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice |
1965 | Movie | Othello | Desdemona |
1965 | Tv Show | BBC Play of the Month | Epifania |
1965 | Movie | Young Cassidy | Nora |
1965 | Movie | Olivier Talks About Othello | Archive Footage |
1964 | Movie | The Pumpkin Eater | Philpot |
1963 | Movie | The V.I.P.s | Miss Mead |
1962 | Movie | Go to Blazes | Chantal |
1958 | Movie | Nowhere to Go | Bridget Howard |
1956 | Movie | Child in the House | Party Guest (uncredited) |
1956 | Tv Show | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter |
1953 | Tv Show | The Oscars | Self |
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