Biography
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, 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.
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Filmography
all 104
Movies 89
self 17
TV Shows 15
Voice 2
The Miracle Club (2023)
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023)
A German Life (2022)
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration (2022)
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event (2019)
Downton Abbey (2019)
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (2017)
Woolf Works (2017)
Robin And Mark And Richard III (2016)
The Lady in the Van (2015)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
My Old Lady (2014)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian (2013)
Talking Pictures (2013)
Quartet (2012)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
Downton Abbey (2010)
From Time to Time (2010)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait (2008)
Capturing Mary (2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Becoming Jane (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe (2006)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
Keeping Mum (2005)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter (2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
My House in Umbria (2003)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
The Making of 'Gosford Park' (2002)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Last September (2000)
David Copperfield (1999)
All the King's Men (1999)
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Curtain Call (1998)
Washington Square (1997)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Richard III (1995)
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
The Secret Garden (1993)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1993)
Sister Act (1992)
Memento Mori (1992)
Hook (1991)
Romeo.Juliet (1990)
Bed Among the Lentils (1988)
Talking Heads (1988)
Talking Heads (1988)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
A Room with a View (1986)
A Private Function (1984)
Lily in Love (1984)
Mrs. Silly (1983)
Better Late Than Never (1983)
The Missionary (1982)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' (1982)
Quartet (1981)
Entertainment Tonight (1981)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
California Suite (1978)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978)
Murder by Death (1976)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
The Millionairess (1972)
The Merchant of Venice (1972)
Great Performances (1971)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Hot Millions (1968)
The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
The Honey Pot (1967)
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
Othello (1965)
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Young Cassidy (1965)
Olivier Talks About Othello (1965)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Go to Blazes (1962)
Nowhere to Go (1958)
Child in the House (1956)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
The Pumpkin Eater
My House in Umbria
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1934-12-28 (89 years old)
Birth NameMargaret Natalie Smith
Birth PlaceIlford, United Kingdom
Height1.65-meter
RelationshipsRobert Stephens (1967-06-29 - 1975-04-06), Beverley Cross (1975-06-23 - 1998-03-20)
ChildrenChris Larkin, Toby Stephens
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesPulborough, United Kingdom
Also Known As매기 스미스, Мэгги Смит, Margaret Natalie Smith, Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, 玛吉·史密斯, מגי סמית'
AwardsEvening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, Companion of Honour, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Society of London Theatre Special Award, Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Bodley Medal, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Academy Award for Best Actress, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Academy Fellowship Award, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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