Maggie Smith, the celebrated stage actress who starred in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' “Downton Abbey” and 'Harry Potter' films, has died.
Two-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith, the celebrated stage actress who starred in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and burnished her long-shining star by playing the scene-stealing dowager countess of “Downton Abbey” and the exacting Professor McGonagall in the “Harry Potter” franchise, has died. She was 89. The respected English dame died early Friday in a London hospital, her sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, told the Associated Press.
Smith received little encouragement upon announcing her dramatic intentions — even her grandmother turned to her mother and said: “You simply can't let her. Not with that face.' After leaving Oxford High School for Girls at 16, her plans to go to London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art were foiled by her parents, who said that if she wanted to pursue her dream, she would have to stay in Oxford.
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