| Maggie Smith  AKA Maggie Natalie Smith
Born: 28-Dec-1934
Birthplace: Ilford, Essex, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: Prof. McGonagall in Harry Potter Maggie Smith went from high school to the Oxford Playhouse School of Theatre, and first stepped on the professional stage in 1952, with the Oxford University Drama Society. At 21, she appeared on Broadway in a six-month run of collected bits written by then-newcomer talents like Neil Simon and Paul Lynde. She started her movie career with a series of now-forgotten films in the early 1960s, including Go to Blazes and The Pumpkin Eater. In 1969, she won an Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; she has also won a Tony, a second Oscar, three Golden Globes, and six BAFTAs (the British Academy Award).
Smith is also remembered for A Room with a View, The First Wives Club, Hook, and Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing. Additionally, she has starred in many British films, doing fine work that often doesn't translate well across the Atlantic (Quartet, The Missionary, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, etc.). Younger audiences know her as the witchy Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, the snooty Mother Superior in Whoopi Goldberg's Sister Act flicks, the snobbish matron in Gosford Park, or the intimidating Mrs. Medlock in The Secret Garden. Father: Nathaniel Smith
Mother: Margaret Hutton Little
Brother: Ian Smith (b. 8-Dec-1928)
Brother: Alastair Smith (b. 8-Dec-1928)
Husband: Robert Stephens (actor, m. 1967, div. 1974, d. 12-Nov-1995)
Son: Chris Larkin (actor, b. 19-Jun-1967)
Son: Toby Stephens (actor, b. 21-Apr-1969)
Husband: Beverley Cross (screenwriter, m. 1975, d. 20-Mar-1998)
High School: Oxford High School For Girls (1950)
Oscar for Best Actress 1970 for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 1979 for California Suite
Golden Globe 1979 for California Suite
Golden Globe 1987 for A Room with a View
Emmy 2003, Outstanding Lead Actress, for My House in Umbria
Tony 1990, Best Actress, for Lettice and Lovage
Emmy 2011, Outstanding Supporting Actress, for Downton Abbey
Commander of the British Empire 1970
Dame of the British Empire 1990
Risk Factors: Breast Cancer
TELEVISION
Downton Abbey Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham (2010-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (7-Jul-2011)
Gnomeo & Juliet (23-Jan-2011) [VOICE]
Nanny McPhee Returns (24-Mar-2010) · Mrs. Docherty
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (6-Jul-2009) · Prof. Minerva McGonagall
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (3-Jul-2007)
Becoming Jane (2-Mar-2007)
Keeping Mum (2-Dec-2005)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (6-Nov-2005)
Ladies in Lavender (17-Sep-2004) · Janet
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (31-May-2004)
My House in Umbria (8-Mar-2003)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (3-Nov-2002)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (3-Jun-2002) · Caro
Gosford Park (7-Nov-2001) · Constance Trentham
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (4-Nov-2001)
David Copperfield (25-Dec-1999)
All the King's Men (14-Nov-1999)
Curtain Call (30-Aug-1999)
The Last September (16-May-1999)
Tea with Mussolini (26-Mar-1999) · Lady Hester
Washington Square (12-Sep-1997)
The First Wives Club (20-Sep-1996) · Gunilla Garson Goldberg
Richard III (20-Aug-1995) · Duchess of York
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (10-Dec-1993)
The Secret Garden (27-Jan-1993)
Sister Act (29-May-1992)
Hook (11-Dec-1991)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (23-Dec-1987)
A Room with a View (Dec-1985) · Charlotte Bartlett, a chaperon
A Private Function (Nov-1984)
Lily in Love (17-Oct-1984)
The Missionary (2-Nov-1982)
Evil Under the Sun (5-Mar-1982)
Better Late Than Never (1982)
Clash of the Titans (12-Jun-1981)
Quartet (May-1981)
California Suite (15-Dec-1978)
Death on the Nile (30-Oct-1978) · Miss Bowers
Murder by Death (23-Jun-1976) · Dora Charleston
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (19-Apr-1973)
Travels with My Aunt (17-Dec-1972) · Aunt Augusta
Oh! What a Lovely War (10-Mar-1969)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jan-1969)
Hot Millions (19-Sep-1968) · Patty Terwilliger Smith
The Honey Pot (21-Mar-1967) · Sarah Watkins
Othello (15-Dec-1965)
Young Cassidy (22-Mar-1965) · Nora
The Pumpkin Eater (9-May-1964)
The V.I.P.'s (1-Sep-1963)
Go to Blazes (Apr-1962)
Nowhere to Go (2-Dec-1958) · Bridget Howard
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