Dame Maggie Smith, renowned for her captivating performances and scene-stealing abilities, has passed away at the age of 89. Her illustrious career spanned seven decades, encompassing film, stage, and television. She won two Academy Awards, four other nominations, and eight Bafta awards.
If there had been a competition for scene-stealing among Britain's great actresses, it's odds-on that Dame Maggie Smith , who died yesterday at the age of 89, would have won it hands down.
Her glittering 72-year career spanned 63 films, 78 stage roles, and 88 television appearances. In the process, she won Oscars for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite . She had four other nominations, and received eight Bafta awards.Dame Maggie Smith on set as her character Jean Brodie in The Prime of Jean Brodie, 1969King Charles with Maggie Smith at the Pride Of Britain awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel on October 31, 2016.
But Downton confirmed her status as an international star, with her role as the curmudgeonly aristo earning her three Primetime Emmy Awards and helping to ensure that by the time she died she had amassed a fortune estimated at up to £20 million. Her mother insisted that when she left school she should take a secretarial course, but Margaret remained adamant an acting career was the only future that interested her.The Lady in the Van , starring Alex Jennings as Alan Bennett and Maggie Smith as Miss Shepherd'Honest to God, I have no idea where the urge came from,' she once said. 'It was such a ghastly time and we didn't go to the theatre.
She and Williams became close friends and shared an outlandish sense of humour. When they visited Fortnum & Mason together, Maggie enquired the price of a bra. The assistant said it was seven guineas. 'Seven guineas for a bra?' shrieked Maggie. 'Cheaper to have your tits off!' Williams later recorded that 'the place was in uproar'.
Dame Maggie Smith attending the Royal and World Premiere of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the Odeon in Leicester Square, London on February 17, 2015 In his earlier career at the National, Stephens was spoken of by many observers as the likely successor to Laurence Olivier. But he was a troubled and unstable character who never came to terms with the reality that, in Maggie, he had married a woman whose achievements and star status were infinitely greater than his own.
Maggie Smith beaming for the camera in a fashion campaign for Loewe in what would end up being her last photoDame Maggie Smith arrives for the world premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in London on July 7, 2011 Maggie divorced Robert Stephens on April 6, 1975, and three and a half months later at last married Beverley Cross, who had waited patiently, and they remained supremely happy until his death at the age of 66.
As Muriel Donnelly, a former housekeeper who goes to India to have a hip operation on the cheap in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , she proved she could do 'common' quite as well as she could do aristocratic.
At the age of 87, after gaining worldwide recognition from 52 television episodes of Downton Abbey, she made her farewell appearance in the second of two spin-off movies from the series, Downton Abbey: A New Era .
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