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Dame Maggie Smith was an English actor known for her extensive roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous accolades as well as two Academy Awards, five BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Primetime Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. [1] Smith is one of only 14 actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of ...
Smith earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won her second Golden Globe Award and her third British Academy Film Award for Best Actress. Smith won her fourth BAFTA Film Awards for Best Actress for the title role in the 1987 film The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne , directed by Jack Clayton . [ 3 ]
Smith received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her work in Suddenly, Last Summer (1992), David Copperfield (1999) and Capturing Mary (2010). Smith won for My House in Umbria (2003). Smith gained international acclaim for her performance in Downton Abbey (2010–2015) as the Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham.
Smith's 2001 role in Gosford Park earned her an Academy Award and cemented her status as the star to play elegant British aristocrats in period pieces. 'Harry Potter,' 2001-2011 Warner Bros/Everett
Maggie Smith — the grande dame of British theater who won two Academy Awards, mentored Harry Potter as Professor McGonagall, and embodied Downton Abbey’s sharp-tongued matriarch Violet — has ...
Related: Remembering Maggie Smith's Incredible Life and Career in Photos Smith, who appeared in over 50 films, won two Academy Awards for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.
Dame Maggie Smith, ... She was rewarded with the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance and would appear in another Spark adaptation, Memento Mori, in 1992.