Birth Place: Ilford, Essex, ENGLAND
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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. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for The Private Ear and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994), and A German Life (2019). 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 appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010.
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 has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. 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. She received four other Oscar nominations for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1986), and Gosford Park (2001).
Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). 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). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016
Maggie Smith
Maggie SmithThe Lady In The Van
Maggie SmithA Delicate Balance
Maggie Smith Three Tall Women
Maggie SmithThe Importance Of Being Earnest
Maggie SmithLettice & Lovage
Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage
Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage
Maggie SmithLettice And Lovage
Maggie SmithThe Way Of The World
Maggie SmithThe Way of the World
Maggie SmithVirginia
Maggie SmithVirginia
Maggie Smith, Night and Day
Maggie Smith, Private Lives
Maggie Smith, Private Lives
Maggie Smith , Private Lives
Maggie SmithHedda Gabler
Maggie SmithThe Private Ear
Maggie SmithThe Public Eye
Maggie Smith has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.
Maggie Smith has appeared on London's West End in 2 shows.
Maggie Smith's first West End show was Share My Lettuce which opened in 1957
Theatre Icon Award (Evening Standard Awards) for , Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for The Lady In The Van , Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for A Delicate Balance , Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for Three Tall Women , Best Comedy Performance (Olivier Awards) for The Importance Of Being Earnest , Best Actress - Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Lettice & Lovage , Best Actress - Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Lettice and Lovage , Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Lettice and Lovage , Actress of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Lettice And Lovage , Comedy Performance of the Year (Olivier Awards) for The Way Of The World , Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Way of the World , Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for Virginia , Actress of the Year in a New Play (Olivier Awards) for Virginia , Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Night and Day , Outstanding Actress - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Private Lives , Best Performance (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Private Lives , Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Private Lives , Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for Hedda Gabler Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Private Ear and Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Public Eye .
Theatre Icon Award (Evening Standard Awards) for , Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for Three Tall Women, Best Actress - Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Lettice & Lovage , Best Actress - Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Lettice and Lovage, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Lettice and Lovage, Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Way of the World, Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for Virginia, Best Performance (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Private Lives, Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for Hedda Gabler Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Private Earand Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Evening Standard Awards) for The Public Eye.
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