Maggie Smith, acting great known to millions from 'Harry Potter' and 'Downton Abbey,' has died, her publicist announced Friday. She was 89.
"Jean Brodie" brought her the Academy Award for best actress and the British Academy award as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for"California Suite" in 1978Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.
"Jean Brodie" brought her the Academy Award for best actress and the British Academy award as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for"California Suite" in 1978. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for “California Suite” in 1978, Golden Globes for “California Suite” and “Room with a View,” and BAFTAs for lead actress in “A Private Function” in 1984, “A Room with a View” in 1986, and “The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne” in 1988.
Smith famously drew laughs from a prosaic line — “This haddock is disgusting” — in a 1964 revival of Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever.” “I did so many things, you know, round the universities there. ... If you were kind of clever enough and I suppose quick enough, you could almost do weekly rep because all the colleges were doing different productions at different times,” she said in a BBC interview.Laurence Olivier spotted her talent, invited her to be part of his original National Theatre company and cast her as his co-star in a 1965 film adaptation of “Othello.
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