Overview
Born : December 28, 1934 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Birth Name : Margaret Natalie Smith
Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)
One of the world's generally popular and recognized entertainers, Dame Maggie Smith was conceived Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), filled in as a secretary, and her English dad, Nathaniel Smith, was an educator at Oxford University. Smith has been hitched two times: to entertainer Robert Stephens and to writer Beverley Cross. Her union with Stephens finished in separate in 1974. She was hitched to Cross until his passing in 1999. She had two children with Stephens, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens who are additionally entertainers.
Maggie Smith's vocation started at the Oxford Playhouse during the 1950s. She made her film debut in 1956 as one of the party visitors in Child in the House (1956). She has since acted in more than sixty movies and TV series with probably the most conspicuous entertainers and entertainers on the planet. These include: Othello (1965) with Laurence Olivier, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), California Suite (1978) with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, A Room with a View (1985), Richard III (1995) with Ian McKellen and Jim Broadbent, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999) with Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Cher and Gosford Park (2001) with Kristin Scott Thomas and Clive Owen, coordinated by Robert Altman. Maggie Smith has likewise been designated for an Oscar multiple times and won two times, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978).
Smith later showed up in the extremely effective 'Harry Potter' establishment as the imposing Professor McGonagall as well as in Julian Fellowes' ITV dramatization series, Downton Abbey (2010) (2010-2011) as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
Director Agnieszka Holland respected Maggie Smith for a really long time prior to making The Secret Garden (1993). She knew about Smith's gifts and quickly offered her the job of Mrs. Medlock.
She was granted the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1970 Queen's New Years Honors List and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 Queen's New Years Honors List for her administrations to show.
Gotten privileged certifications as Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) from the Universities of St Andrews, Bath and Cambridge in 1971, 1986 and 1994 individually.
She positioned 10th in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of most noteworthy British film entertainers.
Relative of entertainer Anna-Louise Plowman.
She was designated for a 2000 Laurence Olivier Theater Award (1999 season) for Best Actress for her presentation in "The Lady in the Van" at the Queen's Theater.
She was designated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theater Award for Best Actress (1997 season) for her presentation in "A Delicate Balance" at the Haymarket Theater.
She was granted the 1984 London Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Actress for her exhibition in "The Way of the World".
She was granted the 1981 London Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Actress for her exhibition ready "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
She was granted the 1994 London Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Actress for her presentation in "Three Tall Women".
Depicted by Ian McKellen on Saturday Night Live (1975).
In 2003, she turned into the seventeenth entertainer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscars: Best Actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress, California Suite (1978), Tony: Best Actress - Play, "Lettice and Lovage" (1990), and Emmy: Best Actress - Miniseries/Movie, My House in Umbria (2003).
Old buddies with Judi Dench and Kenneth Williams.
Worked with Sir Laurence Olivier during the 1960s at the National Theater.
Her dad Nathaniel was a Geordie and a pathologist. Her mom Margaret was a Glaswegian and a secretary.
Her twin siblings Ian and Alistair are six years more seasoned than she is. They were the two draftsmen until Alastair died in 1981.
Won Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Lettice and Lovage". She was likewise designated two times before in a similar class: for a restoration of Noël Coward's "Private Lives" in 1975, and for "Night and Day" in 1980.
Instructed at the High School for Girls in Oxford, she began in the theater as a brief young lady and student at the Oxford Repertory. She asserts she never continued as nobody at any point fell wiped out.
Made her stage debut with the Oxford University Dramatic Society as Viola in Shakespare's "Twelfth Night". Bird-hounded by an American dramatic director, the job prompted her being projected in her Broadway debut in "New Faces of 1956".
Needed to change her stage name to "Maggie Smith" as there previously was an entertainer named "Margaret Smith" at the time she began in the calling.
She showed up with Sir Laurence Olivier in "Rhinoceros" in the English Stage Company's 1960 London creation. Olivier articulated her acting "Great".
Was an individual from the Old Vic Company from 1959 to 1963, when the organization was broken up. It filled in as the reason for the new National Theater being coordinated by Sir Laurence Olivier, whom welcomed her to join. She gave a significant presentation as Desdemona inverse Olivier's Othello at The National Theater's transitory home at the Old Vic theater working in 1964. Rehashing the exhibition in the 1965 film made of that creation, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award designation, her first of six Oscar gestures.
Is one of a couple of entertainers to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar subsequent to winning a Best Actress Oscar.
While recording Death on the Nile (1978), on board transport, nobody was permitted their own changing area, so she shared a changing area with Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury.
Was the first of four sequential victors of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to have the initials 'M.S.', the others being: Meryl Streep - Kramer versus Kramer (1979), Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard (1980), and Maureen Stapleton - Reds (1981).
Is a VP of Chichester Cinema at New Park. Anita Roddick and Kenneth Branagh are likewise VPs.
One of the main individuals to have a star on the Avenue of Stars - a British form of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Seven other Harry Potter entertainers additionally have one.
She and her first spouse, Robert Stephens, showed up together in "A lot of trouble about something that is not important". In 1993, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, who were likewise hitched at that point, assumed similar parts. Smith later worked with both Branagh and Thompson in the Harry Potter films.
Has been in three movies that have "secret" in their titles: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Secret Garden (1993) and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002).
She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in acknowledgment of her remarkable commitment to film culture.
Given to creator Jane Austen and her work.
Has played fictitious extremists two times: first Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and afterward Lady Hester Random in Tea with Mussolini (1999).
In 2008, it was accounted for that she was battling bosom malignant growth. She has had a cancer taken out and gone through chemotherapy.
At the 2002 Academy Awards, Whoopi Goldberg presented her, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith as "The Smith Family".
She showed up in "The Master Builder" with Michael Redgrave and Celia Johnson (who had supplanted the as of late perished Diana Wynyard) as a feature of the new National Theater Company in 1964. She and Johnson would later show up together in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Not exclusively accomplishes she much of the time work with Judi Dench, yet they have likewise both worked with one another's kids. Maggie worked with Finty Williams in Gosford Park (2001), while Dench worked with Toby Stephens in Die Another Day (2002).
Is one of 17 entertainers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony); the others in sequential request are: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.
During the time she was projected in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), makers moved toward her for additional film jobs in Cactus Flower (1969) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) yet she turned them down as she needed to restrict her film work and spotlight more on theater.
Grandma to Daisy (b. July 2006) and Nathaniel (b. December 2008) by means of child Chris Larkin, and to Eli (b. May 2007), Tallulah (b. May 2009), and Kura (b. September 2010) by means of child Toby Stephens.
Brought forth her first youngster at age 32, a child Christopher Stephens (otherwise known as Chris Larkin), on June 19, 1967. Kid's dad is her sweetheart (presently late ex-first spouse), Robert Stephens.
Brought forth her second kid at age 34, a child Toby Stephens on April 21, 1969. Youngster's dad is her now late ex-first spouse, Robert Stephens.
She showed up in two films by a similar title: Quartet (1981) and Quartet (2012).
The battle scene among her and Alan Rickman in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) was nearly rejected during the content course of the film. Her personality was to be worked out of the scene and supplanted by another person. Notwithstanding, creator J.K. Rowling demanded that the battle ought to include similar characters as those in the novel, as she saw it as a critical second for Smith's personality. The scene was shot when Smith was 76 years of age.
Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar victors to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face, Smith's being for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
Was the 68th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) at The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970) on April 7, 1970.
She was granted the CH (Member of the Order of the Companions of Honor) in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honors List for her administrations to Drama.
Finished shooting Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) while going through radio-treatment as therapy for bosom disease.
Despite the fact that she played Nigel Hawthorne, John Wood and Ian McKellen's mom in Richard III (1995), she was over five years more youthful than Hawthorne, four years more youthful than Wood and under five years more established than McKellen.
Is one of 25 entertainers to have won an Academy Award for their exhibition in a parody; hers being for California Suite (1978). The others, in sequential request, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
Her visitor appearance on The Graham Norton Show: Bradley Cooper/Sienna Miller/Dame Maggie Smith/Alex Jennings (2015) denoted her first appearance on a TV syndicated program since she guested on Parkinson: Episode #2.33 (1973) 42 years sooner.
She was absent to gather her first Oscar, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969); it was acknowledged for her benefit by Alice Ghostley, who unintentionally attributed the bearing of the film to its maker, Robert Fryer.
Conveyed her children Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens through Cesarean segment as they were both in the breech position.
Girl of Nathaniel (1902-1991) and Margaret Hutton (née Little) Smith (1896-1977).
Imagined on one of a bunch of eight British dedicatory postage stamps praising the 200th commemoration of The Old Vic Theater, gave 30 August 2018. The stamp shows Smith in a 1970 exhibition of Hedda Gabler. Different entertainers showing up on stamps in this set are Laurence Olivier, Glenda Jackson, Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Sharon Benson, Judi Dench, John Stride, and Richard Burton.
Lady Maggie has won the most BAFTA best film entertainer grants, winning four altogether. She won three years running for "A Private Function", "A Room with a View", and "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne". Her first best entertainer win was for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", and she additionally won best supporting entertainer for "Tea with Mussolini".
Won Actress of the Year Award at the Variety Club Awards in 1972 for her presentation in "Private Lives".
With her Evening Standard Best Actress win in November 2019 for "A German Life", Dame Maggie currently holds the record for the most Evening Standard acting successes with six altogether.
She supplanted Liselotte Pulver in The V.I.P.s (1963) which turned into her first huge accomplishment as a film entertainer (She acquired a Golden Globe assignment for her fine exhibition.).
List of Maggie Smith Movies
- The Miracle Club (pre-production)
- A German Life (pre-production)
- Downton Abbey: A New Era (completed)
- A Boy Called Christmas
- Downton Abbey
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game)
- Sherlock Gnomes
- Downton Abbey (TV Series)
- The Lady in the Van
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- My Old Lady
- Quartet: Deleted Scenes (Video short)
- Quartet
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Gnomeo & Juliet
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
- From Time to Time
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Capturing Mary (TV Movie)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Becoming Jane
- Keeping Mum: Deleted Scenes (Video short)
- Keeping Mum: Funnies (Video short)
- Keeping Mum
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Ladies in Lavender
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- My House in Umbria (TV Movie)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Gosford Park
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- David Copperfield (TV Mini Series)
- All the King's Men (TV Movie)
- The Last September
- Tea with Mussolini
- Curtain Call
- Washington Square
- The First Wives Club
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- The Secret Garden
- Great Performances (TV Series)
- Sister Act
- Screen Two (TV Series)
- Hook
- Romeo.Juliet
- Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (TV Mini Series)
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- A Room with a View
- A Private Function
- Lily in Love
- All for Love (TV Series)
- Better Late Than Never
- The Missionary
- Evil Under the Sun
- Clash of the Titans
- California Suite
- Death on the Nile
- Murder by Death
- Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
- Travels with My Aunt
- ITV Playhouse (TV Series)
- Much Ado About Nothing (TV Movie)
- The Honey Pot
- ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
- Othello
- Young Cassidy
- The Pumpkin Eater
- The V.I.P.s
- Go to Blazes
- Nowhere to Go
- On Stage - London (TV Series)
- Sing for Your Supper (TV Movie)
- Kraft Theatre (TV Series)
- The Adventures of Aggie (TV Series)
- Theatre Royal (TV Series)
- BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) & Many more....
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