Maggie Smith plays the authoritarian Mother Superior in this nuntastic box-office smash with a hint of Some Like It Hot, featuring Whoopi Goldberg as … It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. Discover what happened on t… In this little book she has numerous "notes to self" and us on how to keep moving through grief, loss, hard times, and her original impetus, a divorce. Other performers appearing on stamps in this set are. - IMDb Mini Biography By: After that she has been acting with the most prominent actors and actresses in the world in over sixty films and TV-series, which include Othello (1965) with Laurence Olivier (as well as her future Potter co-star Michael Gambon in his film début), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), California Suite (1978) with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, A Room … Official Sites. Her first best actress win was for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and she also so won best supporting actress for Tea with Mussolini. 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In 1948, the Smith family bought the historic Bird estate and named it Win-Vian, a combination of the first names of Winthrop Smith and his wife Vivian. Her mother Margaret was a Glaswegian and a secretary. 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, directed by Robert Altman. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and over 70 plays, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. Maggie Smith is a poet, teacher, and editor from Central Ohio, perhaps most famous for her 2016 poem "Good Bones" about trying to "sell" this world to her children. [64], In 1993, she was awarded with the BAFTA Special Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. But, how old is she, will she be in the … Dame Maggie Smith has declared the show must go on after being diagnosed with breast cancer. According to reports, the double Oscar-winning actress has had a … It just gets different, that's all. One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. [22][23] In 1957, she starred opposite Kenneth Williams in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, written by Bamber Gascoigne. Without inflation adjustment, it is the third highest-grossing film series with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. Maggie Smith’s parents weren’t keen on their daughter’s acting aspirations. [76] On 27 November 2012, she contributed a drawing of her own hand to the 2012 Celebrity Paw Auction, to raise funds for Cats Protection. It's true I don't tolerate fools, but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. [34] In September 2019, a continuation of the series in form of a feature-length film was in theaters entitled simply, Downton Abbey. Branagh described the group as "the greatest quartet of Shakespearean actors on the planet" as they talked about the highs and lows of their careers. Enjoy the best Maggie Smith Quotes at BrainyQuote. [30] Smith that same year also starred in another HBO television movie, Capturing Mary alongside Ruth Wilson for which she was nominated for her fourth Primetime Emmy Award this time for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. I did Desdemona [at the National, opposite Olivier] with great discomfort and was terrified all the time. In 1995, Smith starred another film adaptation this time of William Shakespeare's Richard III (1995) starring Ian McKellen in the titular role. Maggie Smith's career began at the Oxford Playhouse in the 1950s. Mustn't ride a bike, you'd be bound to fall off. I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of an idealistic, unorthodox schoolteacher in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1978 film California Suite. Forty one years ago. One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. |  She was awarded the 1984 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Way of the World". In 1997 Smith played Claire in another Albee play, A Delicate Balance opposite Eileen Atkins. I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. [42] The new play by Christopher Hampton was drawn from the life and testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel (1911–2017), in which Smith was alone on stage, performing a 100-minute-long monologue to the audience. You can't be here'" [on her second husband. Smith reunited with Daniel Radcliffe with whom she recently starred in David Copperfield from 1999. She also acted alongside Dench in the film Ladies in Lavender (2004) directed by Charles Dance. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. [on whether she will miss filming Harry Potter now that the series is completed] No, it was 10 years, and that's a lot. For her role on television as Mrs Silly, she received the first of her four Best Actress BAFTA TV Award nominations. Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. All the things I'd have to work very hard at, Jude is like that all the time. Her father Nathaniel was a Geordie and a pathologist. They were always – when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we’d have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. In 1981, Smith starred in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet alongside Alan Bates and Isabelle Adjani. In 2016 while promoting, The Lady in the Van, Smith shared her experiences working on the Harry Potter films and working with the late Alan Rickman. The stamp shows Smith in a 1970 performance of Hedda Gabler. In 2013, she was awarded with the Evening Standard Icon Award. Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours,[51][52] and was raised to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours, for services to the performing arts. In 1971, Smith was conferred an honorary doctor of letters (DLitt) by the University of St Andrews. Bird-dogged by an American theatrical impresario, the part led to her being cast in her Broadway debut in "New Faces of 1956.". The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. [19], In 1952, aged 17, under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Smith began her career as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. Maggie Smith is the author of Keep Moving (Simon & Schuster, 2020), Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks. [31][32][33] In a March 2015 interview with Joe Utichi in The Sunday Times, Smith announced that the sixth season of Downton Abbey would be her last (it was in fact the last to be produced). The problem is, according to a long standing French legal arrangement, the house comes with Maggie Smith (which would seem to be something of a dream come true, at least for a while) playing a 91 year old english woman, Mathilde Girard, who'd sold the house to the elder Mr. Gold, after her husband had died. ... Was a member of the Old Vic Company from 1959 to 1963, when the company was dissolved. She was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of the 1997 season for her performance in "A Delicate Balance" at the Haymarket Theatre. Margaret Natalie Smith … She claims she never went on as no one ever fell ill. Made her stage debut with the Oxford University Dramatic Society as Viola in Shakespare's "Twelfth Night." Daughter of Nathaniel (1902-1991) and Margaret Hutton (née Little) Smith (1896-1977). Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. The 84-year-old actress has reprised her role as Dowager Countess of … But Dame Maggie Smith proved she was just like the rest of us as she hit the corner shop in London on Thursday. In March she starred in a revival of Edward Albee's stage play The Lady from Dubuque which ran at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End. Smith has been married twice: to actor Robert Stephens and to playwright Beverley Cross. "I still miss him so much it's ridiculous. They had two sons, actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969),[18][failed verification] and were divorced on 6 April 1975. Maggie Smith is an English actress.She was born on December 28, 1934 (86 years old) in Ilford, England as Margaret Natalie Smith. In 1978, Smith played opposite Michael Caine in Neil Simon's California Suite, playing an Oscar loser, for which she received the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. During 2007, Smith had a productive year appearing in films, television and the stage. Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. She was awarded the 1994 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Three Tall Women". Pictured on one of a set of eight British commemorative postage stamps celebrating the 200th anniversary of The Old Vic Theatre, issued 30 August 2018. They raised a beloved son, bounteous fruit and vegetables, and livestock on the property (today the luxury Spa stands where the pigpens once did but offers a rather nicer kind of mud treatment). [56] In 1986, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bath. The film premiered at the 2001 London Film Festival where it received critical acclaim from critics including Roger Ebert, who awarded it his highest rating of four stars, describing the story as "such a joyous and audacious achievement it deserves comparison with his [Robert Altman's] very best movies."[29]. Has been in three films that have the word "secret" in their titles: She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture. Had to change her stage name to "Maggie Smith" as there already was an actress named "Margaret Smith" at the time she started in the profession. Her other films at this time include Murder by Death (1976) with Vincent Canby of The New York Times writing, that the film had one of Simon's "nicest, breeziest screenplays," with James Coco "very, very funny as the somewhat prissy take-off on Hercule Poirot" and David Niven and Maggie Smith "marvelous as Dick and Dora Charleston, though they haven't enough to do. Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony); the others in chronological order are: Grandmother to Daisy (b. July 2006) and Nathaniel (b. December 2008) via son, Gave birth to her first child at age 32, a son Christopher Stephens (aka, Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a son. And we used to say we’d got to about number 200-and-something and we’d run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. Share with your friends. Maggie Smith acceptance speech at the 44th Tony Awards telecast in 1990. The film was a critical success, Smith in particular was praised for her performance as Mrs. Medlock earning a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Dame Maggie has won the most BAFTA best film actress awards, winning four in total. The film was distributed by Fox Searchlight and received positive reviews. The film received modest critical praise according to Rotten Tomatoes with Smith's performance being a standout.[36]. In 1991, Smith appeared as Wendy Darling in Steven Spielberg's 1991 hit movie Hook, a fantasy adventure film based on the Peter Pan character. Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Ilford, Essex, England, to Margaret (Hutton) and Nathaniel Smith. "Jude is the most incredibly level person. [5] On stage, she won her third and fourth Evening Standard awards for Best Actress, for Virginia in 1981 and The Way of the World in 1984. She became a fixture at the Royal National Theatre in the 1960s, most notably for playing Desdemona in Othello opposite Laurence Olivier, and earning her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1965 film version. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1970 Queen's New Year Honours List and the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1990 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsen's The Master Builder, and played comedic roles in The Recruiting Officer and Much Ado About Nothing. Also in 2012, Smith starred in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's play. She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. And working with Jude you have to try to remember that you ought to be like that" [on her friend, I love it, I'm privileged to do it and I don't know where I'd be without it. She has had a tumor removed and undergone chemotherapy. She was awarded the CH (Companion of Honour) in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama. [9], Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, Essex,[10][11][12][13][14] on 28 December 1934. [5], From 2001 to 2011, Smith gained great acclaim and international recognition for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies. "[39] Smith received a Golden Globe Award and British Academy Film Award nominations for her performance. 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