Maggie Smith

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Maggie Smith

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: Beverley Cross (screenwriter, b. 13-Apr-1931; m. 1975, d. 20-Mar-1998)
Husband: Robert Stephens (actor, b. 14-Jul-1931, m. 1967, div. 1974, d. 12-Nov-1995)
Son: Chris Larkin (actor, b. 19-Jun-1967)
Son: Toby Stephens (actor, b. 21-Apr-1969)

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 for My House in Umbria
Tony 1990 for Lettice and Lovage
Commander of the British Empire 1970
Dame of the British Empire 1990
Risk Factors: Breast Cancer

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
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)
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)
Gosford Park (7-Nov-2001)
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)
Washington Square (12-Sep-1997)
The First Wives Club (20-Sep-1996)
Richard III (20-Aug-1995)
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)
A Private Function (Nov-1984)
The Missionary (2-Nov-1982)
Evil Under the Sun (5-Mar-1982)
Clash of the Titans (12-Jun-1981)
Quartet (May-1981)
California Suite (15-Dec-1978)
Death on the Nile (30-Oct-1978)
Murder by Death (23-Jun-1976)
Travels with My Aunt (17-Dec-1972)
Oh! What a Lovely War (10-Mar-1969)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jan-1969)
Hot Millions (19-Sep-1968)
The Honey Pot (21-Mar-1967)
Othello (15-Dec-1965)
Young Cassidy (22-Mar-1965)
The Pumpkin Eater (Jun-1964)
The V.I.P.'s (1-Sep-1963)
Nowhere to Go (2-Dec-1958)

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