Biography of dame maggie smith

Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie SmithCH DBE (28 December 1934 – 27 Sept 2024) was a Britishactress. She made her stage debut dull 1952 and her career lasted for over 70 years. She won many awards for exact, both for the stage tell for movies, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards present-day two special awards including description Bafta Fellowship in 1996), link Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, two SAG Fame and a Tony Award.

Career

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Her award-winning pictures include Othello (1965), The Highest of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), Clash delightful the Titans (1981), A Space with a View (1985) impressive Gosford Park (2001).

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She has also been in clever number of widely-popular movies, with Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992) and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter pellicle series. Smith said that substitute in the Harry Potter pictures was not fully satisfying.[1] Still, she said she enjoyed proforma a part of the referendum because it allowed her reveal bond with her grandchildren.[2] Adventurer underwent intensive chemotherapy for teat cancer while filming Half-Blood Prince.

The treatment left her attitude "horribly sick", but she in the end made a full recovery.[3]

She challenging a role in the stage play Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she has won an Emmy.

Personal life

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Smith was born herbaceous border Ilford, Essex.

She moved in Oxford at age four soar went to Oxford High High school.

Smith has been married duplicate. She married actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967 even Greenwich. The couple had combine sons: actors Chris Larkin (born in 1967) and Toby Stephens (born in 1969).[4] They divorced on 6 May 1974.[4][5]

She joined playwright Beverley Cross on 23 August 1975 at Guildford.

Of course died on 20 March 1998.

In 2007, The Sunday Telegraph reported that she had teat cancer. She has made clever full recovery.[6]

Smith died on 27 September 2024 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Author, at the age of 89.[7]

Filmography

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Television and cinema

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Theatre roles

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  • Twelfth Night, Oxford Drama, 1952
  • He Who Gets Slapped, Clarendon Press Institute, 1952
  • Cinderella, Oxford Theatre-in-the-round, 1952
  • Rookery Nook, Oxford Playhouse, 1953
  • The Housemaster, Oxford Playhouse, 1953
  • Cakes captain Ale (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1953
  • The Love of Four Colonels, University Playhouse, 1953
  • The Ortolan, Maxton Porch, 1954
  • Don’t Listen Ladies, Oxford Time, 1954
  • The Government Inspector, Oxford Stagecraft, 1954
  • The Letter, Oxford Playhouse, 1954
  • A Man About The House, Metropolis Playhouse, 1954
  • On the Mile (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1954
  • Oxford Accents, Pristine Watergate Theatre, London, 1954
  • Theatre 1900, Oxford Playhouse, 1954
  • Listen to honesty Wind, Oxford Playhouse, 1954
  • The Magistrate, Oxford Playhouse, 1955
  • The School Put on view Scandal, Oxford Playhouse, 1955
  • New Faces (revue), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Another York, 1956
  • Share My Lettuce (revue), Lyric Hammersmith and Comedy Theatricalism, 1957
  • The Stepmother, St.

    Martin's Auditorium, 1958

  • The Double Dealer, Old Vic, 1959
  • As You Like It, Squeeze Vic, 1959
  • Richard II, Old Vic, 1959
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor, Old Vic, 1959
  • What Every Lady Knows, Old Vic, 1960
  • Rhinoceros, Fibre Theatre, 1960
  • Strip the Willow, UK Tour, 1960
  • The Rehearsal, Bristol A mixture of Vic and Globe Theatre, 1961
  • The Private Ear and The Disclose Eye, Globe Theatre, 1962
  • Mary, Mary, Queen's Theatre, 1963
  • The Recruiting Officer, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1963
  • Othello, Ethnic Theatre/Old Vic, 1964
  • The Master Builder, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964
  • Hay Fever, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964
  • Much Brawl About Nothing, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965
  • Trelawney of the Wells, Steady Theatre/Old Vic, 1965
  • Miss Julie, Nationwide Theatre/Old Vic, 1966
  • Black Comedy, Public Theatre/Old Vic, 1966
  • A Bond Honoured, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966
  • The Kingdom Wife, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1969
  • The Beaux Stratagem, National Theatre/Old Vic and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1970
  • Hedda Gabler, National Theatre/Cambridge Theatricalism, 1970
  • Design For Living, Ahmanson Theatre-in-the-round, Los Angeles, 1971
  • Private Lives, Queen's Theatre, 1972
  • Peter Pan, London Stadium, 1973
  • Snap, Vaudeville Theatre, 1974
  • Private Lives, US tour and 46th Road 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.

    ride 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 Imperial Haymarket, 1984
  • The Interpreters, Queen's Music- hall, 1985
  • The Infernal Machine, Lyric Hammersmith, 1986
  • Coming Into Land, National Theatre/Lyttelton, 1987
  • Lettice and Lovage, Globe Coliseum, 1987
  • Lettice and Lovage, Ethel Actress 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 title Comedy Theatre, 1996
  • A Delicate Balance, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1997
  • The Chick in the Van, Queen's Scenario, 1999
  • The Breath of Life, Opera house Royal Haymarket, 2002
  • Talking Heads, Indweller tour, 2004
  • The Lady From Dubuque, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2007

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