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Maggie Smith
Known for: ActingDame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (December 28, 1934 − September 27, 2024) was a British actress. Known for her wit in comedic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses. She received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Laurence Olivier Awards. Smith was one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting. Smith began her stage career as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. Over the following decades Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, she received Tony Award nominations for Noël Coward's Private Lives (1975) and Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979), and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990). She won Academy Awards for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She was Oscar-nominated for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She portrayed Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). She also acted in Death on the Nile (1978), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Quartet (2012) and The Lady in the Van (2015). Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The role earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards; she had previously won one for the HBO film My House in Umbria (2003). Over the course of her career she was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1993, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996 and the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. Smith was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Professor McGonagall 
Downton Abbey
as Violet Crawley 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Minerva McGonagall 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Minerva McGonagall 
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Minerva McGonagall 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Minerva McGonagall 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Minerva McGonagall 
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Minerva McGonagall 
Hook
as Granny Wendy 
Downton Abbey
as Violet Crawley 
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Mrs. Docherty 
Gnomeo & Juliet
as Lady Bluebury (voice) 
Sister Act
as Mother Superior 
The Miracle Club
as Lily Fox 
David Copperfield
as Betsey Trotwood 
A Boy Called Christmas
as Aunt Ruth 
A Room with a View
as Charlotte Bartlett 
Gosford Park
as Constance Trentham 
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Mother Superior 
Death on the Nile
as Miss Bowers 
Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Violet Crawley 
The First Wives Club
as Gunilla Garson Goldberg 
Sherlock Gnomes
as Lady Bluebury (voice) 
Clash of the Titans
as Thetis 
Keeping Mum
as Grace Hawkins 
The Lady in the Van
as Miss Shepherd 
My Old Lady
as Mathilde Girard 
Becoming Jane
as Lady Gresham 
Murder by Death
as Dora Charleston 
Evil Under the Sun
as Daphne Castle 
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock 
Quartet
as Jean Horton 
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly 
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Muriel Donnelly 
Richard III
as Duchess of York 
A Private Function
as Joyce Chilvers 
Ladies in Lavender
as Janet 
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self 
Tea with Mussolini
as Lady Hester Random 
California Suite
as Diana Barrie 
From Time to Time
as Linnet 
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Jean Brodie 
The Pumpkin Eater
as Philpot 
The V.I.P.s
as Miss Mead 
Curtain Call
as Lily Marlowe 
The Honey Pot
as Sarah Watkins 
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Music Hall Star 
Capturing Mary
as Mary Gilbert 
Travels with My Aunt
as Augusta Bertram 
Washington Square
as Aunt Lavinia Penniman 
All the King's Men
as Queen Alexandra 
Hot Millions
as Patty Terwilliger Smith 
Nowhere to Go
as Bridget Howard 
Quartet
as Lois Heidler 
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Judith Hearne 
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
as Self (archive footage) 
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
as Lila Fisher 
Lily in Love
as Lily Wynn