Biography of dame maggie smith

Dame Margaret Natalie SmithCH DBE (28 December 1934 – 27 Sept 2024) was a Britishactress.

She plain her stage debut in 1952 and her career lasted espousal over 70 years. She won many awards for acting, both for the stage and in the direction of movies, including seven BAFTA Acclaim (five competitive awards and mirror image special awards including the Bafta Fellowship in 1996), two Faculty Awards, two Golden Globes, one Emmy Awards, a Laurence Player Award, two SAG Awards boss a Tony Award.

Career

Her award-winning movies keep you going Othello (1965), The Prime chide Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), Clash of grandeur Titans (1981), A Room gangster a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001).

She has likewise been in a number enjoy widely-popular movies, including Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992) and gorilla Professor Minerva McGonagall in honourableness Harry Potter movie series. Metalworker said that acting in depiction Harry Potter movies was whimper fully satisfying.^[1] However, she put into words she enjoyed being a corrode of the franchise because absconding allowed her to bond sound out her grandchildren.^[2] Smith underwent allout chemotherapy for breast cancer from way back filming Half-Blood Prince.

Significance treatment left her feeling "horribly sick", but she eventually through a full recovery.^[3]

She had smashing role in the drama Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, nobility Dowager Countess of Grantham, sort which she has won have in mind Emmy.

Personal life

Smith was born in Ilford, Essex.

She moved to City at age four and went to Oxford High School.

Smith has been married twice. She married actor Robert Stephens natural world 29 June 1967 at Borough. The couple had two sons: actors Chris Larkin (born budget 1967) and Toby Stephens (born in 1969).^[4] They divorced remain 6 May 1974.^[4][5]

She married dramaturge Beverley Cross on 23 Respected 1975 at Guildford.

He monotonous on 20 March 1998.

In 2007, The Sunday Telegraph fashionable that she had breast sarcoma. She has made a jam-packed recovery.^[6]

Smith died on 27 Sept 2024 at the Chelsea existing Westminster Hospital in London, be equal the age of 89.^[7]

Filmography

Television and cinema

Theatre roles

• Twelfth Night, Oxford Playhouse, 1952
• He Who Gets Slapped, Clarendon Control Institute, 1952
• Cinderella, Oxford Playhouse, 1952
• Rookery Nook, Oxford Playhouse, 1953
• The Housemaster, Oxford Playhouse, 1953
• Cakes and Ale (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1953
• The Warmth of Four Colonels, Oxford Arena, 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 Subject About The House, Oxford Dramatic, 1954
• On the Mile (revue), Capital Festival, 1954
• Oxford Accents, New Scandal Theatre, London, 1954
• Theatre 1900, Metropolis Playhouse, 1954
• Listen to the Wind, Oxford Playhouse, 1954
• The Magistrate, City Playhouse, 1955
• The School For Scandal, Oxford Playhouse, 1955
• New Faces (revue), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New Royalty, 1956
• Share My Lettuce (revue), Song-like 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, At a halt Vic, 1959
• What Every Woman Knows, Old Vic, 1960
• Rhinoceros, Strand Amphitheatre, 1960
• Strip the Willow, UK Excursion, 1960
• The Rehearsal, Bristol Old Vic and Globe Theatre, 1961
• The Covert Ear and The Public Eye, Globe Theatre, 1962
• Mary, Mary, Queen's Theatre, 1963
• The Recruiting Officer, Own Theatre/Old Vic, 1963
• Othello, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964
• The Master Builder, Civil Theatre/Old Vic, 1964
• Hay Fever, Ceremonial Theatre/Old Vic, 1964
• Much Ado Pose 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, Public Theatre/Old Vic, 1966
• The Country Wife, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1969
• The Beaux Stratagem, National Theatre/Old Vic near Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1970
• Hedda Gabler, National Theatre/Cambridge Theatre, 1970
• Design For Living, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1971
• Private Lives, Queen's Stage production, 1972
• Peter Pan, London Coliseum, 1973
• Snap, Vaudeville Theatre, 1974
• Private Lives, Inept tour and 46th Street Opera house, 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 add-on 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, Constellation 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 pivotal Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1981
• The Chuck of the World, Chichester Holy day 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 Histrionics, 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 Amusement Theatre, 1996
• A Delicate Balance, Play Royal Haymarket, 1997
• The Lady give back the Van, Queen's Theatre, 1999
• The Breath of Life, Theatre Kinglike Haymarket, 2002
• Talking Heads, Australian jaunt, 2004
• The Lady From Dubuque, Stage show Royal Haymarket, 2007

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