Dame Maggie Smith was one of Britain's best-loved and ... One of Dame Maggie’s most iconic early roles was as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello. Sir Laurence Olivier, who was playing the ...

Dame Maggie Smith was a highly versatile actress whose repertoire ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter and Downton Abbey. She won her first Oscar for The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie in 1969 and ...

Trained as a repertory stage actor in an English system rooted in Shakespeare, Dame Maggie, who died Friday ... 27, 2024 I saw Smith only once on stage in New York, the last time she was on ...

So she offered us all a long goodbye, did Maggie Smith. Her career spanned seven decades; two centuries; stage, screen and television and virtually every genre, from Shakespeare to “Harry Potter ...

Oscar, Emmy and Tony winning actress Maggie Smith, who played everything from ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the dowager countess in Downton Abbey, has died at 89.

“They did a lot of TV, especially in the early days when they did plays on TV and period dramas especially Shakespeare. Maggie Smith was in iconic Downton Abbey. Plowright has a Golden Globe and ...

Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses ... in an Oxford University Dramatic Society production of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” She went on to appear on Broadway ...

She took Maggie as her stage name because another Margaret Smith was active in the theater. In 1952, at 17 years old, Smith launched her illustrious career as Viola in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." ...

Dame Maggie Smith, the British actress who won Oscars, Emmys and a Tony in a career spanning seven decades, has died at age 89. Smith began her career playing wistful ingenues in Shakespeare.