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Maggie Smith

For persons of a similar name, see Margaret Smith.

Dame
Maggie Smith
CH DBE
Smith c. 1970
Born
Margaret Natalie Smith[1][2]

(1934-12-28) 28 December 1934 (age 89)
Ilford, Essex, England
OccupationActress
Years active1952–present
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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith[3][4] CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. Known for her wit in comedic roles, she has had an extensive career on stage and screen over seven decades and is one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses.[5] She has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award, making her 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 David Hare's Night and Day (1979), and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990).

Smith made her film debut in the 1958 film Nowhere to Go.[5] She was given the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and she has also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978).[6][7] Her other Oscar nominations were for her roles in Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985), and Gosford Park (2001).[8] Other notable films include Death on the Nile (1978), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992),[9] The Secret Garden (1993), the Harry Potter series (2001–2011), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Quartet (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Smith has sporadically appeared on television throughout her career, and gained 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).[10][11]

Over the course of her career, Smith has been recognized with 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.[12][13][8] Smith was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the Arts,[14] and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2014 for services to Drama.[15]

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  2. ^ "Maggie Smith". Biography.com. 29 June 2020. Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Ilford, Essex, England
  3. ^ "Maggie Smith | British actress". Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 July 2023. Maggie Smith, in full Dame Margaret Natalie Smith
  4. ^ "Maggie Smith". Biography.com. 29 June 2020. Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Ilford, Essex, England
  5. ^ a b "Maggie Smith | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 7 September 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Academy Awards Best Actress". Filmsite.org. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  7. ^ "ACADEMY AWARDS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: Maggie Smith". Oscars.org. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Maggie Smith BAFTA Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  9. ^ Ganz, Jami (2 February 2023). "Sister Act cast: Where are they now?". EW.com. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  10. ^ O'Neil, Tom (9 July 2010). "What do Al Pacino and Maggie Smith have in common?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  11. ^ Croggon, Alison (10 June 2009). "Jewel in the triple crown". News.com.au. Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  12. ^ "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Dame Maggie Smith's BAFTA Special Award Acceptance Speech in 1993". Youtube. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  14. ^ Spears, W. (30 December 1989). "Queen Honors Naipaul, Maggie Smith". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  15. ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b5.

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