
Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (December 28, 1934 − September 27, 2024) was a British actress. Known for her wit in comedic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses. She received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Laurence Olivier Awards. Smith was one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting.
Smith began her stage career as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. Over the following decades Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, she received Tony Award nominations for Noël Coward's Private Lives (1975) and Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979), and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990).
She won Academy Awards for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She was Oscar-nominated for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She portrayed Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). She also acted in Death on the Nile (1978), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Quartet (2012) and The Lady in the Van (2015).
Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The role earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards; she had previously won one for the HBO film My House in Umbria (2003). Over the course of her career she was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1993, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996 and the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. Smith was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 17.861 |
Birthday | 1934-12-28 |
Place of Birth | Ilford, Essex, England, UK |
Also Known As | Margaret Natalie Smith, Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Меггі Сміт, 메기 스미스, مگی اسمیت, |

1991

Hook
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2022

A German Life
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Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
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2001

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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1981

Clash of the Titans
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1992

Sister Act
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1999

Tea with Mussolini
6.4/144
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1978

Death on the Nile
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1982

Evil Under the Sun
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1996

The First Wives Club
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2007

Becoming Jane
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2001

Gosford Park
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1969

Oh! What a Lovely War
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1993

The Secret Garden
7.4/902
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1969

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6.8/112
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1972

Travels with My Aunt
5.9/36
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1986

A Room with a View
7/768
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1976

Murder by Death
7.2/815
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1978

Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
6.3/3
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1982

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
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1995

Richard III
6.7/178
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1993

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
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2004

Ladies in Lavender
6.409/132
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2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
8.1/20813
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2002

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
6.131/240
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1978

California Suite
5.817/109
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1968

Hot Millions
6.6/25
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2005

Keeping Mum
6.7/565
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2010

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
6.3/1845
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1987

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
6.654/26
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2003

My House in Umbria
6.103/34
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1967

The Honey Pot
6.5/59
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1963

The V.I.P.s
6.2/55
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1965

Othello
6.4/26
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1997

Washington Square
6.2/42
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2011

Gnomeo & Juliet
5.862/1965
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1981

Quartet
5.781/32
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1973

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
5.9/7
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2000

The Last September
5.2/11
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2009

From Time to Time
6.3/107
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1998

Curtain Call
5/23
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1958

Nowhere to Go
6.7/28
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1964

The Pumpkin Eater
6.689/45
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2023

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
6.4/8
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1982

The Missionary
5.6/46
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2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
6.944/1349
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1984

A Private Function
6.3/51
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2012

Quartet
6.478/367
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1972

The Millionairess
8.5/2
One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also t...
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1983

Mrs. Silly
10/1
Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money....
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Mrs. Silly

1984

Lily in Love
6/3
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Itali...
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Lily in Love

1965

Young Cassidy
6.2/19
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Young Cassidy

2007

Capturing Mary
6.3/26
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1993

Suddenly, Last Summer
6.8/6
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane;...
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1962

Go to Blazes
6.3/9
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio...
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2004

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
7.4/18
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
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2015

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
6.4/721
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2022

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
0/0
A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starring in more than 60 films and 70 plays across her 7...
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2014

My Old Lady
6.208/265
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the v...
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2008

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
7.667/3
An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.
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1967

Much Ado About Nothing
5.5/2
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in w...
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1983

Better Late Than Never
4.7/3
Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.
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2015

The Lady in the Van
6.419/751
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van...
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The Lady in the Van

1999

All the King's Men
6.2/17
Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, thei...
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All the King's Men

1988

Talking Heads
5/1
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopefu...
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Talking Heads

1972

The Merchant of Venice
7/1
Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of Bottice...
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2015

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
5/1
From the BBC archives, before their talents were recognised by royal decree, the early work and career defining moments of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, D...
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2013

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
7/3
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...
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2017

Woolf Works
2/1
The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max Richter, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf.
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Woolf Works

1956

Child in the House
5.8/4
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companion...
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Child in the House

2017

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
0/0
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
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2018

Nothing Like a Dame
6.9/52
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2018

Sherlock Gnomes
5.7/718
Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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Sherlock Gnomes

2019

Downton Abbey
7.142/1146
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England w...
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Downton Abbey

1990

Romeo.Juliet
0/0
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been...
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Romeo.Juliet

2016

Robin And Mark And Richard III
9/1
Theatre director Robin Phillips rehearses actor Mark McKinney over the course of 3 years.
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Robin And Mark And Richard III

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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1992

Memento Mori
6.2/5
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
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2021

A Boy Called Christmas
7.3/750
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2019

Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
7.1/19
An hour long special hosted by Derek Hough and filmed at the historic Highclere Castle in England. Hough talks to the cast about what made the series...
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1965

Olivier Talks About Othello
0/0
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
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2002

The Making of 'Gosford Park'
5/2
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...
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2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era
7.197/501
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2023

The Miracle Club
6.146/99
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