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Maggie Smith

Birth name: Margaret Natalie Smith

Birth date: 28.12.1934

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award, and Emmy-winning English film, stage, and television actress. Smith was born in Ilford in Essex, the daughter of Nathaniel Smith, a Newcastle-born public health pathologist who worked at Oxford University, and Margaret Hutton Little, who was Scottish. She has two older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian. Smith studied at Oxford High School, although she has been quoted as not having enjoyed the experience, at a time when Lady Antonia Fraser would have been amongst her peers. Smith has had an extensive career both on screen and in live theatre, and is known as one of Britain's pre-eminent actresses. She began her career at the Oxford Playhouse with Frank Shelley, and made her first film in 1956. She became a fixture at the Royal National Theatre in the 1960s, most notably for playing Desdemona in Othello opposite Laurence Olivier, and winning her first Oscar nomination when she immortalized her performance in the 1965 film version. In 1969 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a role originally created on stage by Vanessa Redgrave in 1966. She was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress, Diana Barrie, in California Suite acting opposite Michael Caine. Afterwards, Caine is supposed to have humorously telephoned Michael Palin on hearing that Palin was about to embark on a film (The Missionary) with Smith, warning him she would steal the film . Smith appeared in Sister Act in 1992, and had a major role in the 1999 film Tea With Mussolini, where she appeared as the formidable Lady Hester. Indeed, many of her more mature roles have centred on what Smith refers to as her "gallery of grotesques", playing waspish, sarcastic or plain rude characters. Recent examples of this would include the judgemental sister in Ladies in Lavender and the cantankerous snob in Gosford Park for which she received yet another Oscar nomination. Other notable roles include the querulous Charlotte Bartlett in the Merchant-Ivory production of A Room with a View and a vivid supporting turn as the aged Duchess of York in Ian McKellen's film of Richard III. Given the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she is widely known in the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall. She most recently appeared in Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, released in July 2007. In the 1970s Smith moved to Canada to find a new direction in both her career and in her personal life, as she had recently divorced. On stage, her many roles include the title character in the stage production of Alan Bennett's Lady in the Van and starring as Peter Pan[citation needed] in J. M. Barrie's fairytale story Peter Pan. She later played Wendy in the Peter Pan adaption Hook. 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 was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1970, and was raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1990. Smith has been married twice. She married Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967, at the Greenwich Registry office and had two sons with him: actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969). They divorced on 6 May 1974. She married Beverly Cross (on 23 August 1975 at Guildford Registry Office) and the marriage ended with his death on 20 March 1998. At the time of his death she was appearing in A Delicate Balance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket but continued to the end of the run.

Filmography

# From Time to Time (2009) # Capturing Mary (2007) .... Mary # Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) .... Minerva McGonagall ... aka Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # Becoming Jane (2007) .... Lady Gresham # Keeping Mum (2005) .... Grace Hawkins # Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) .... Minerva McGonagall ... aka Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # Ladies in Lavender. (2004) .... Janet Widdington # Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) .... Professor Minerva McGonagall ... aka Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # My House in Umbria (2003) (TV) .... Mrs. Emily Delahunty ... aka Mia casa in Umbria, La (Italy) # Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (as Dame Maggie Smith) .... Professor Minerva McGonagall ... aka Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens (Germany) # Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) .... Caro Eliza Bennett # Gosford Park (2001) .... Constance Trentham ... aka Gosford Park (Italy) # Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) .... Professor Minerva McGonagall ... aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Canada: English title) (International: English title) (UK) ... aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (USA) # David Copperfield (1999) (TV) .... Betsey Trotwood # All the King's Men (1999) (TV) .... Queen Alexandra # Curtain Call (1999) .... Lily Marlowe # The Last September (1999) .... Lady Myra Naylor ... aka The Last September (France) # Tea with Mussolini (1999) .... Lady Hester Random ... aka Te con Mussolini, Un (Italy) # Washington Square (1997) .... Aunt Lavinia Penniman # The First Wives Club (1996) .... Gunilla Garson Goldberg # Richard III (1995) .... Duchess of York # Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) .... Mother Superior # The Secret Garden (1993) .... Mrs. Medlock # Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV) .... Violet Venable # Sister Act (1992) .... Mother Superior # Memento Mori (1992) (TV) .... Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew # Hook (1991) .... Granny Wendy # Romeo-Juliet (1990) (voice) .... Rozaline # The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) .... Judith Hearne # "Talking Heads" (1987) (mini) TV Series .... Susan (episode "Bed Among the Lentils") # A Room with a View (1985) .... Charlotte Bartlett, a chaperon # A Private Function (1984) .... Joyce Chilvers # Lily in Love (1984) .... Lily Wynn # Mrs. Silly (1983) (TV) .... Mrs. Silly # The Missionary (1982) .... Lady Isabel Ames # Evil Under the Sun (1982) .... Daphne Castle ... aka Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (UK: complete title) # Better Late Than Never (1982) .... Miss Anderson # Clash of the Titans (1981) .... Thetis # Quartet (1981) .... Lois Heidler # California Suite (1978) .... Visitors from London - Diana Barrie ... aka Neil Simon's California Suite # Death on the Nile (1978) .... Miss Bowers ... aka Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (UK: complete title) # Murder by Death (1976) .... Mrs. Dora Charleston # Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) .... Lila Fisher # Travels with My Aunt (1972) .... Aunt Augusta Bertram # "Play of the Month" .... Ann Whitefield / ... (4 episodes, 1968-1972) - The Millionairess (1972) TV Episode .... Epifania - The Merchant of Venice (1972) TV Episode .... Portia - The Seagull (1968) TV Episode .... Irina Arkadina - Man and Superman (1968) TV Episode .... Ann Whitefield # Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) .... Music Hall Star # The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) .... Jean Brodie # Hot Millions (1968) .... Patty Terwilliger Smith # The Honey Pot (1967) .... Sarah Watkins # Much Ado About Nothing (1967) (TV) .... Beatrice # Othello (1965) .... Desdemona # Young Cassidy (1965) .... Nora # The Pumpkin Eater (1964) .... Philpott # The V.I.P.s (1963) .... Miss Mead ... aka International Hotel # Go to Blazes (1962) .... Chantal # "ITV Play of the Week" .... Dixie Evens (2 episodes, 1958-1960) ... aka Play of the Week (UK: short title) - Hay Fever (1960) TV Episode - The Big Knife (1958) TV Episode .... Dixie Evens # Nowhere to Go (1958) .... Bridget Howard # "Armchair Theatre" (1 episode, 1958) - The Widower (1958) TV Episode # "Kraft Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1957) - Night of the Plague (1957) TV Episode # Child in the House (1956) (uncredited) .... Party guest # "The Makepeace Story" (1 episode, 1955) - Family Business (1955) TV Episode