#maggie natalie smith

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Margaret "Maggie" Natalie Smith or also known as Dame Maggie Smith ,she was an acclaimed British actress with a distinguished career spanning film, television, and stage. She has won two Academy Awards: one for best actress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and one for Best Supporting Actress in California Suite (1978). She has also received Oscar nominations for her roles in Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985), and Gosford Park (2001).

Additionally, she is widely known for portraying Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011).

Whether u like it Harry Potter or not,whether for Jk Rowling's bullshit or not..u can't deny she nailed it her role as Minerva,she was iconic. When I used to be fan of the saga. She was badass as Minerva..and I can't not imagine any other actress playing her role...

Maggie is also the mother of Toby Stephens (Poseidon in Percy Jackson) and Chris Larkin..and last but not less important..the baby she is holding in the picture is the actor Toby Stephens..(Poseidon in the Percy Jackson show), and I genuinely hope her sons get a good grief process on their mom's passing..

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[karlrincon]

Rest in peace to an absolute treasure, Dame Maggie Smith.

They’ve been reunited 🤍

[ragingbookdragon]

You seem to have forgotten the way she works. When you need her but do not want her, then she must stay. When you want her, but no longer need her, then she has to go.

She doesn’t like goodbyes, I remember from when I was little

[sillygirlfun]

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[the-imaginative-hobbyist]

Dame Maggie Smith was one of the best actresses to be on the screen and on the stage and gave 100% in every role she played. They could not have found a better performer for Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies.

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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

DAME MAGGIE DIED THE DAY AFTER MY B-DAY -- SHE & CLIFF DIED ON THE SAME DAY, IN FACT.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on English actress Maggie Smith at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards (age 27-28), London, UK, 25th January 1962.E 📸: Evening Standard/Getty Images/Hulton Archive.

PIC #2: Dame Maggie Smith in the present day.

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (28 December 1934 – 27 September 2024).

Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986).

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3466715201171828058, Wikipedia, & X.

[sublimekaoz]

R.I.P.

Maggie Smith

(28/12/1934-27/09/2024)

[may-we-rest-well]

She was only 57 in Hook but the special effects team managed to age her in a way that almost perfectly aligned with how she actually ended up aging. It's the first movie I ever watched with her in it. The second was Sister Act and then Harry Potter.

She was a wonderful gift to the world and I hope she will forever rest in peace now.

RIP Dame Maggie Smith.

She passed away peacefully at 89 on Sept. 27th.

My heart is broken with this one, even though she had a long life and magnificent career. We will always have the gift of her epic performances. ❤️

[thepastisalreadywritten]

27 September 2024

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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (28 December 1934 − 27 September 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 is 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.

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[whileiamdying]

Postscript

The Exhilarating Brilliance of Maggie Smith

Success came early for the late British actor, who throughout her career continued to captivate audiences with her edgy, glinting gifts.

By Rebecca Mead September 28, 2024

Photograph by Tom Jamieson / NYT / Redux

Dame Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, at the age of eighty-nine, was one of a generation of female British actors who carved out a long career on the stage, in the movies, on television, and, in a final unexpected turn, on TikTok. Recently, a clip featuring a conversation between Dame Maggie and Dames Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, and Eileen Atkins, from a 2018 documentary, “Tea with the Dames,” directed by Roger Michell, went viral. In it, the four eminent and versatile performers discuss their later-in-life professional opportunities.

“We’re going to work forever if we’re asked,” Dame Judi avers, earnestly.

“But you’re always asked first, if I may say so,” Dame Maggie shoots back, with mannered disdain.

“Don’t turn on me!” Dame Judi replies, meekly.

“I’m turning on you,” Dame Maggie continues, fixing a stare on Dench. Then, suddenly, she slides into a working-class Cockney accent, Eliza Doolittle in reverse: “It’s all comin’ out now,” she says, with mock ruthlessness. Dame Joan interrupts to say that she’s having trouble following the exchange: one of her hearing aids has cut out. “Do you want one of mine?” Dame Maggie says, before raising a hand to her brow in a gesture of hopelessness, and dissolving into giggles.

The omnipresence of Judi Dench notwithstanding, Smith’s career was substantial and varied—a testament to her flexibility as an actor and to her rigor as an artist. She played many of the theatre’s classic dramatic roles, including the title role in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler,” in a 1970 production directed by Ingmar Bergman, and a young, gaunt Lady Macbeth in the Stratford Festival production of “Macbeth,” in 1978. But she also turned newer works into must-see events, as in Edna O’Brien’s “Virginia,” a dramatization of the life of the novelist Virginia Woolf, which débuted in 1980, and which Mel Gussow referred to when he wrote, in the Times, “Miss Smith’s accomplishment is an act of intuition and of acting alchemy. She has merged her own vivid personality with that of her charismatic subject.” Smith also had an edgy, glinting gift for comedy, with which she was able to throw off an audience quite as decisively as she unsettled her old friend Judi Dench. In 1987, the dramatist Peter Shaffer wrote the role of Lettice Douffet for Smith, in the play “Lettice and Lovage”; Smith played a tour guide in a sixteenth-century country house with an undistinguished history, to which she starts to add fanciful baroque amendments. The playran for two years in London before transferring to Broadway, where the part won Smith a 1990 Tony Award, just one of many accolades she received on both sides of the Atlantic.

Smith was born between Christmas and New Year in 1934, in the inauspicious town of Ilford, Essex, where her father worked in a laboratory and her mother, who was of Scots origin, worked as a secretary. (Later in life, Smith’s lower-middle-class origins were barely evident in her speaking voice, and were certainly not primarily called for in her acting career, though Cockney came as easily as did her command of Received Pronunciation.) After a move during Smith’s early childhood to Oxford, a teen-age Margaret joined the drama school associated with the Oxford Playhouse. (She later started going by Maggie because the trade union had already registered a Margaret Smith.) She was the first in her family to even think of treading the boards, her older twin brothers having both trained as architects. Though the Playhouse was not attached officially to the university, there was some cross-pollination, with Smith being much in demand as a cast member for student productions and revues at what was still then a largely male institution. “One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one’s still acting,” she later said, of her personal time line.

Success came early; in 1962, Smith won the first of six Evening Standard awards, still the highest number any female actor has earned. Not long thereafter, Laurence Olivier invited her to join his newly formed National Theatre company. As a member, Smith was opinionated and far from compliant. Once, displeased with her offstage, Olivier, playing Othello, smacked Smith’s Desdemona so hard that she later remembered seeing stars. “Larry used to say there was a ‘merry war’ between us,” Smith told Charlie Rose, in 2002. Her intelligence was demanding and exhilarating to those who worked with her: according to Derek Jacobi, Smith onstage thought “at the speed of lightning.” By the late sixties, she had extended her œuvre to film; in 1969, she played the lead role in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” an adaptation of a Muriel Spark novel (itself an adaptation of a story first published in this magazine, in 1961) about a charismatic schoolteacher whose influence on her charges takes a manipulative turn. For the role, she won her first of two Academy Awards.

In her later decades, Smith joined another exclusive club, that of British character actors cast in the cinematic adaptations of J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels. For millennial-and-younger viewers, Smith will forever be known as Professor Minerva McGonagall, a role she played in seven of the films and which she once described as “sort of a mad Jean Brodie.” And then there was the Dowager Countess of Grantham, Smith’s role as the batty matriarch in “Downton Abbey.” Among those few who were not connoisseurs of Smith’s embodiment of out-of-touch privilege was Smith herself, who confessed to Graham Norton, the talk-show host on British television, that she had never in fact watched the series. “I’ve got the box set,” she affirmed.

The success of the show changed Smith’s life in unexpected and not entirely enjoyable ways: it was not until “Downton” that strangers started approaching her, particularly Americans. “I don’t go anywhere, really, where they can get at me,” she told Norton, with a twinkle. “It’s usually in museums and art galleries, so that limits things. So, I keep away from there. And Harrods, I don’t go near.” Still, Smith took enough pleasure in her public profile to agree to an unusual role last year, that of high-fashion model, posing for Juergen Teller in a faux-fur coat for a campaign by Loewe, the fiendishly fashionable Spanish luxury brand. In the images, Smith looks frail but fearless: she eyes the camera with amusement and defiance. It’s quite the curtain call, and it’s hard to imagine that anyone else was asked first. ♦

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"When this body contained a spirit, a kingdom was too small to hold it. Now, two paces of the vilest earth is room enough." - William Shakespeare

Rest in Peace, Dame Maggie Smith. You will always be our favorite professor, our favorite nun, our Wendy Darling.

Farewell, and thank you for our childhoods.

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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE 28th of December, 1934 — 27th of September, 2024

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.  She  was  one  of  the  few  performers  to  earn  the  Triple  Crown  of  Acting.

“ Do  not  be  stilled  by  anger  or  grief.  Burn  them  both  and  use  that  fuel  to  keep  moving.  Look  up  at  the  clouds  and  tip  your  head  way  back  so  the  roofs  of  the  houses  disappear.  Keep  moving. ” — Dame Maggie Smith in her memoir; You Could Make This Place Beautiful (2023)

"My  wife  and  I  were  deeply  saddened  to  learn  of  the  death  of  Dame  Maggie  Smith.  As  the  curtain  comes  down  on  a  national  treasure,  we  join  all  those  around  the  world  in  remembering  with  the  fondest  admiration  and  affection  her  many  great  performances  and  her  warmth  and  wit  that  shone  through  both  on  and  off  the  stage." — King Charles III

"The  end  of  an  era  of  the  sheer  definition  of  what  it  means  to  be  an  actor.  You  created  characters  that  clung  to  us,  moved  us,  entertained  us  ......  made  us  look  within.  You  defied  the  expectations  of  age....  crossed  generations.  You  were  greatness  personified  Dame  Maggie  Smith.  'A  lady  always  knows  when  it's  time  to  leave'  [...]  Godspeed  ♥️"  —  Viola  Davis

"She  was  a  fierce  intellect, a  gloriously  sharp  tongue,  could  intimidate  and  charm  in  the  same  instant  and  was,  as  everyone  will  tell  you,  extremely  funny...  The  word  legend  is  overused  but  if  it  applies  to  anyone  in  our  industry  then  it  applies  to  her."  —  co-star  in  Harry  Potter,  Daniel  Radcliffe

"Maggie  Smith  was  a  truly  great  actress,  and  we  were  more  than  fortunate  to  be  part  of  the  last  act  in  her  stellar  career.  She  was  a  joy  to  write  for,  subtle,  many-layered,  intelligent,  funny  and  heart-breaking.  Working  with  her  has  been  the  greatest  privilege  of  my  career,  and  I  will  never  forget  her."  —  Downton  Abbey  creator,  Julian  Fellowes

"Maggie  Smith  was  a  great  woman  and  a  brilliant  actress.  I  still  can’t  believe  I  was  lucky  enough  to  work  with  the  “one-of-a-kind”.  My  heartfelt  condolences  go  out  to  the  family  …  RIP."  —  co-star  in  Sister  Act & Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit,  Whoopi  Goldberg

"When  I  was  younger  I  had  no  idea  of  Maggie’s  legend  –  the woman  I  was  fortunate  enough  to  share  space  with.  It  is  only  as  I’ve  become  an  adult  that  I’ve  come  to  appreciate  that  I  shared  the  screen  with  a  true  definition  of  greatness."  —  co-star  in the  Harry  Potter film series,  Emma  Watson

"Heartbroken  to  hear  about  Maggie.  She  was  so  special,  always  hilarious  and  always  kind.  I  feel  incredibly  lucky  to  have  shared  a  set  with  her  and  particularly  lucky  to  have  shared  a  dance."  —  co-star  in the  Harry  Potter film series,  Rupert  Grint

"Anyone  who  ever  shared  a  scene  with  Maggie  will  attest  to  her  sharp  eye,  sharp  wit  and  formidable  talent,"  on-screen  son  in  Downton  Abbey,  Hugh  Bonneville

"I  had  the  unforgettable  experience  of  working  with  her;  sharing  a  two-shot  was  like  being  paired  with  a  lion.  She  could  eat  anyone  alive,  and  often  did.  But  funny,  and  great  company.  And  suffered  no  fools.  We  will  never  see  another.  God  speed,  Ms.  Smith!"  —  co-star  in  Suddenly,  Last  Summer,  Rob  Lowe

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I know this blog has changed in content over the last few years, but for a long time it was all about Maggie, and that archive is still there should anyone wish to look through it (early 2019 and work backwards). She lived quite a life - considerably more colourful than most would have imagined, and her work was a lot more varied than Potter and Downton would suggest. Her passing today aged 89 still feels like a shock. A friend said it was akin to the death of the Queen. Maggie had a similar steadfast and constant quality to her. Goodbye Margaret Natalie Smith - thanks for the great performances!