Cast & creator
Maggie Smith
Best known for The Graham Norton Show, Great Performances, Golden Globe Awards
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Margaret Natalie Smith, Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Меггі Сміт, مگی اسمیت
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film credits
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television credits
117
1944–2024 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (117)
Showing 117 of 117 credits
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Great Performances
Violet Venable
1971
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Performer / Winner
1956Tony Awards
Self (archive footage)
1956
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Professor McGonagall
2001
Downton Abbey
Violet Crawley
2010
The Carol Burnett Show
Self
1967
Screen Two
Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew
1985
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Minerva McGonagall
2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Minerva McGonagall
2004
BBC Play of the Month
Ann Whitefield
1965BBC Play of the Month
Portia
1965BBC Play of the Month
Epifana
1965
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Minerva McGonagall
2005
ITV Playhouse
Mrs. Wislack
1967
Dinah!
Self
1974
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Minerva McGonagall
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Minerva McGonagall
2011Film '72
Self
1971
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Minerva McGonagall
2009
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
The Oscars
Self
1953
Performance
Mrs Venable
1991
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Mrs. Docherty
2010
Hook
Granny Wendy
1991
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013
Sister Act
Mother Superior
1992
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Mother Superior
1993
Gnomeo & Juliet
Lady Bluebury (voice)
2011
Clash of the Titans
Thetis
1981
The First Wives Club
Gunilla Garson Goldberg
1996
Downton Abbey
Violet Crawley
2019
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Violet Crawley
2022
A Room with a View
Charlotte Bartlett
1986
Evil Under the Sun
Daphne Castle
1982
Death on the Nile
Miss Bowers
1978
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
1999
Gosford Park
Constance Trentham
2001All for Love
Mrs. Silly
1982
A Boy Called Christmas
Aunt Ruth
2021
Sherlock Gnomes
Lady Bluebury (voice)
2018
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Muriel Donnelly
2012
The Secret Garden
Mrs. Medlock
1993
Keeping Mum
Grace Hawkins
2005
Murder by Death
Dora Charleston
1976
Becoming Jane
Lady Gresham
2007
The Lady in the Van
Miss Shepherd
2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Muriel Donnelly
2015
Armchair Theatre
Anna Carnot
1956Armchair Theatre
Juliet Denise
1956Armchair Theatre
The Girl
1956
Lilli Palmer Theatre
Paula Benson
1955
The Miracle Club
Lily Fox
2023
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Caro
2002
California Suite
Diana Barrie
1978
Talking Heads
Susan
1988
Nothing Like a Dame
Self
2018
Richard III
Duchess of York
1995
The V.I.P.s
Miss Mead
1963
Ladies in Lavender
Janet
2004
Tea with Mussolini
Lady Hester Random
1999
From Time to Time
Linnet
2009
My Old Lady
Mathilde Girard
2014
Quartet
Jean Horton
2012
Washington Square
Aunt Lavinia Penniman
1997
The Pumpkin Eater
Philpot
1964
Oh! What a Lovely War
Music Hall Star
1969
Travels with My Aunt
Augusta Bertram
1972
My House in Umbria
Mrs. Emily Delahunty
2003
The Making of Gosford Park
Self (uncredited)
2002
Curtain Call
Lily Marlowe
1998
Hot Millions
Patty Terwilliger Smith
1968
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie
1969
A Private Function
Joyce Chilvers
1984
Better Late Than Never
Miss Anderson
1983
The Honey Pot
Sarah Watkins
1967
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Mrs. Sullen
2013
All the King's Men
Queen Alexandra
1999
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
2004
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
2006
Romeo.Juliet
Rosaline (voice)
1990
Robin And Mark And Richard III
Self
2016
Child in the House
Party Guest (uncredited)
1956
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Judith Hearne
1987
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Self
2017
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Lila Fisher
1973
Young Cassidy
Nora
1965
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Self (archive footage)
2023
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
2015
The Merchant of Venice
Portia
1972
The Missionary
Lady Isabel Ames
1982
Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe
Self
2006
Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland
self
1965
Capturing Mary
Mary Gilbert
2007
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
2024
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self / Daphne Castle
1982
Much Ado About Nothing
Beatrice
1967
Lily in Love
Lily Wynn
1984
Nowhere to Go
Bridget Howard
1958
Othello
Desdemona
1965
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
Self
2019
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Self
2022
Quartet
Lois Heidler
1981
The Last September
Lady Myra Naylor
2000
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Self (archival footage)
2008
Mrs. Silly
Mrs Silly
1983
Memento Mori
Mrs Mabel Pettigrew
1992
Go to Blazes
Chantal
1962
The Millionairess
Epifania
1972
Woolf Works
Reading (voice)
2017
Talking Heads
1988
Suddenly, Last Summer
Violet Venable
1993