Maggie Smith Biography
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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE, (born
December 28, 1934 in Ilford, Essex), better known as Maggie Smith, is a
British film, stage, and television actress.
Throughout her career, Smith has been
admired for her remarkable technique, on both stage and screen. She has
the ability to project a quality of deep emotion (whether comic or
tragic) balanced by an innate reserve that combines the appearance of
steely control and a hint of something approaching hysteria.
She started her career at the Oxford
Playhouse Theatre with Frank Shelley, and made her first film in 1956.
In 1969 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as an
unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She
was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Female
Actress for her role as a brittle actress in California Suite. Other
notable roles include the querulous Cousin Charlotte in the
Merchant-Ivory production of A Room with a View and a vivid supporting
turn as the aged Duchess of York in Ian McKellan's film of Richard III.
Given the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she is
possibly most widely known to filmgoers for her work as Professor
Minerva McGonagall.
Onstage, she has played the title character
in the stage production of Alan Bennett's Lady in the Van and starred as
Peter Pan in Sir J. M. Barrie's fairytale story Peter Pan. She won a
Tony Award in 1990 for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage,
starring as an eccentric tour guide in an English stately home.
She has been married twice. She married Sir
Robert Stephens on June 29, 1967, at the Greenwich Registry office and
had two sons with him: actors Chris Larkin (b. 1967) and Toby Stephens
(b. 1969), both of whom were born at Middlesex Hospital. She and Sir
Robert divorced on May 6, 1974. She then married Beverly Cross on August
23, 1975, at Guilford Registry office. The marriage ended with his death
on March 20, 1998.
She has received numerous honours
throughout her career, culminating in a DBE in 1989 at age 55.
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Selected Filmography
The V.I.P.s, 1963, Miss Mead
Othello, 1965, Desdemona
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969, Jean
Brodie
Travels With My Aunt, 1972, Aunt Augusta
Murder by Death, 1976, Dora Charleston
Death on the Nile, 1978, Miss Bowers
California Suite, 1978, Diana Barrie
Clash of the Titans, 1981, Thetis
Evil Under the Sun, 1982, Daphne Castle
The Missionary, 1982, Lady Isabel Ames
A Room With a View, 1985, Charlotte
Bartlett
Hook, 1991, Granny Wendy
Sister Act, 1992, Mother Superior
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, 1993,
Mother Superior
The Secret Garden, 1993, Mrs Medlock
The First Wives Club, 1996, Gunilla Garson
Goldberg
Tea With Mussolini, 1999, Lady Hester
Random
Gosford Park, 2001, Constance, Countess of
Trentham
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
2001, Minerva McGonagall
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,
2002, Caro Eliza Bennett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
2002, Minerva McGonagall
My House in Umbria, 2003, Emily Delahunty
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
2004, Minerva McGonagall
Ladies in Lavender., 2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005,
Minerva McGonagall
Keeping Mum, 2005, Grace Hawkins
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