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28 December 1934 Margaret Natalie Smith 5' 5" Beverley Cross (23 August 1975 - 20 March 1998) (his death)
Throughout her career, Maggie Smith has been
admired for her remarkable technique, on both stage and screen.
She has the ability to project a quality of
deep emotion (whether comic or tragic)
balanced by an innate reserve that
combines the appearance of steely
control and a hint of something approaching hysteria.
She started her career at the
Oxford Playhouse Theatre with Frank Shelley,
and made her first film in 1956.
In 1969 she won the Academy Award
for Best Actress for her role as an
unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher
in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
She was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award
for Best Supporting Female Actress
for her role as a brittle actress in California Suite.
Other notable roles include
the querulous Cousin Charlotte in the
Merchant-Ivory production of A Room with a View
and a vivid supporting turn as the aged
Duchess of York in Ian McKellan's
film of Richard III.
Given the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she
is possibly most widely known to filmgoers
for her work as Professor Minerva McGonagall.
Onstage, she has played the title character
in the stage production of Alan Bennett's
Lady in the Van and starred as Peter Pan
in Sir J. M. Barrie's fairytale story Peter Pan.
She won a Tony Award in 1990 for
Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage,
starring as an eccentric tour guide in an English stately home.
She has been married twice. She married Sir Robert Stephens
on June 29, 1967, at the Greenwich Registry
office and had two sons with him: actors Chris Larkin
(b. 1967) and Toby Stephens (b. 1969),
both of whom were born at Middlesex Hospital. She and Sir Robert divorced on May 6, 1974. She then married Beverly Cross on August 23, 1975, at Guilford Registry office. The marriage ended with his death on March 20, 1998.
She has received numerous honours throughout
her career, culminating in a DBE in 1989 at age 55.
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith
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