Also in 2012, Smith starred in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's play. "Jude is the most incredibly level person. [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. Alistair died in 1981. [37][38] The film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, received critical acclaim with Kate Muir of The Times praising Smith's performance writing, "Smith delivers a compelling performance in The Lady in the Van, as Alan Bennett's play comes to the big screen 15 years after it premiered at the Royal National Theatre. It just gets different, that's all. Anonymous, Other Works Was the first of 4 consecutive winners of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to have the initials 'M.S. 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I did Desdemona [at the National, opposite Olivier] with great discomfort and was terrified all the time. The film adapts the play's story and characters to a setting based on 1930s Britain, with Richard depicted as a fascist plotting to usurp the throne. About. Smith portrayed Betsey Trotwood for which she received a British Academy Television Awards nomination. She won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 film Tea with Mussolini,[5] in which she played Lady Hester. But, how old is she, will she be in the … The film's cast included Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Kristen Scott Thomas, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson, Charles Dance, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, and Stephen Fry. In the early 1990s, appeared in various box office comedies. - IMDb Mini Biography By: She appeared in two movies by the same title: Currently resting and recovering from ill health, but soon to start work on, Performing in the London West End production of "The Lady from Dubuque". "Simon's Breezy 'Murder by Death'". On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. She was awarded the CH (Companion of Honour) in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama. In 1973 London, playwright Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) develops an unlikely friendship with Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith), a homeless woman who lives in a van in his driveway for the next 15 years. The film received modest critical praise according to Rotten Tomatoes with Smith's performance being a standout.[36]. [68] Smith married playwright Beverley Cross on 23 June 1975, at the Guildford Register Office,[68] and they remained married until his death on 20 March 1998. 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. Maggie plays Violet Crawley in the period drama Maggie Smith Downton Abbey In recent times, the 85-year-old is hailed for her work in films such as … Mustn't ride a bike, you'd be bound to fall off. I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen. [62] On 9 February 2014 she was inducted into the Actors Hall of Fame. She moved with her family to Oxford when she was four years old. Maggie Smith - Biography. |  She made her 16 million dollar fortune with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Downton Abbey . |  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. The series was known for hiring legendary and iconic British actors including, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, and Helena Bonham Carter. But then everyone was terrified of Larry. Directed by Israel Horovitz. [10][16][17][18] During her childhood, Smith's parents told her the romantic story of how they had met on the train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle. I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. [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. [4] She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. [5], From 2001 to 2011, Smith gained great acclaim and international recognition for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies. 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. Won Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Lettice and Lovage." The 1930s were called the Great Depression (1929-1939). She has had an extensive career on stage, film, and television, which began in the mid-1950s. In fact, her net worth has reached an incredible $18 million as of 2018! 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. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident. [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. She received her sixth Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress alongside Mirren. She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She has had an extensive career on stage, film, and television, which began in the mid-1950s. On 10 April 1999, Smith received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (The Will Award) presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in recognition of her significant contribution to classical theatre in the US. With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michel Burstin. Has played fictional fascists twice: first Jean Brodie in. [on acting]. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. [64], In 1993, she was awarded with the BAFTA Special Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The film premiered at the 34th Cannes Film Festival where it received positive reviews. Smith also appeared in the British costume drama Becoming Jane, a film which centers around the life of Jane Austen played by Anne Hathaway. 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. She made her stage debut in 1952 and has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film and television spanning over sixty years. Discover what happened on t… She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. In 2008, it was reported that she was fighting breast cancer. She accepted the award, presented to her by Christopher Plummer, in a ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. [52][53] Smith was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to drama in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours,[54][55] becoming the third actress to receive the honour, after Sybil Thorndike (1970) and Judi Dench (2005). With six decades in the industry and over 50 different films under her belt, it’s no surprise that Dame Maggie Smith is worth a fortune. [44], In 2019, it was announced that Smith would be starring in the Netflix adaptation of the children's book, A Boy Called Christmas. In 2004 she toured Australia in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads in 2004. She was awarded the 1984 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Way of the World". 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. Dame Maggie Smith's role in the 'Downton Abbey' sequel has been put in doubt by the coronavirus pandemic.According to The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column, the 85-year-old … I was rather hopeless, I suspect. 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. Couldn't swim, you'd most certainly drown. In 1999, Smith played the title role (known as Miss Shepherd) in Alan Bennett's stage play that in 2015 was filmed: The Lady in the Van. But Dame Maggie Smith proved she was just like the rest of us as she hit the corner shop in London on Thursday. 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]. [61] She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994. In 1993, Smith appeared in the film adaptation of The Secret Garden directed by Agnieszka Holland. From 2010 to 2015, Smith appeared as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the British period drama Downton Abbey. 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. She was awarded the 1994 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Three Tall Women". Forty one years ago. 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. She had older twin brothers, Alistair (died 1981) and Ian. In 1995, Smith starred another film adaptation this time of William Shakespeare's Richard III (1995) starring Ian McKellen in the titular role. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. Her father Nathaniel was a Geordie and a pathologist. From 1976 to 1980, she appeared in numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, to acclaim; her roles included Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Virginia Woolf in Virginia, and opposite Brian Bedford in the Noël Coward comedy Private Lives.[26]. With her Evening Standard Best Actress win in November 2019 for 'A German Life' Dame Maggie now holds the record for the most Evening Standard acting wins with six in total. Was a member of the Old Vic Company from 1959 to 1963, when the company was dissolved. Has often played grumpy, acid-witted ladies in the second half of her career. The film was such a financial success it spawned a sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015). She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the performing arts, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama. 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. [22][23] In 1957, she starred opposite Kenneth Williams in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, written by Bamber Gascoigne. [75] In July 2012, she became a patron of the International Glaucoma Association, hoping to support the organisation and raise the profile of glaucoma. [40][41] The film was released in the United States as Tea with Dames. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. One kid once said to me, he said "Were you... were you really a cat?" [on roles] "When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.". Won Actress of the Year Award at the Variety Club Awards in 1972 for her performance in 'Private Lives'. The 84-year-old actress has reprised her role as Dowager Countess of … And I heard myself say "Just pull yourself together.". 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). Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Ilford, Essex, England, to Margaret (Hutton) and Nathaniel Smith. [3] She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). Maggie Smith, Actress: Gosford Park. Her 1990s stage roles included Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest in 1993, the Elder Tall Woman in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women in 1994, which won her a fifth Evening Standard award. 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. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and over 70 plays, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. But most viewers only remember her as an honorable old lady and wise wizard, Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter and the dowager countess of … It served as the basis for the new National Theatre being organized by. Official Sites. I would love to be like that. Other performers appearing on stamps in this set are. Created an honorary D.Litt of the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge in 1971 and 1995 respectively. Smith has been married twice: to actor Robert Stephens and to playwright Beverley Cross. Maggie Smith’s parents weren’t keen on their daughter’s acting aspirations. 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