Academy award winner popular Shakespearean actress and Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89, Dame Maggie Smith who performed in movie for more than sixty years, is one of the most talented and awarded actors in Hollywood – she has two Oscars, four Emmys and one Tony. The actress was starting her acting career on stage in the 50s and soon became the main figure in the British theatre. She was great at all types of parts, and I mean all the parts ranging from Shakespeare’s works to the works written in the contemporary world she was a darling of the theater.

Maggie Smith Dies

That is why for the young people maggie smith harry potter was famous for her performance of maggie smith mcgonagall in all the seven movies of the greatly esteemed Harry Potter films. Her portrayal of McGonagall, a strict yet caring Hogwarts professor, endeared her to millions of fans worldwide, making “Maggie Smith Professor McGonagall” a household association. Another was the Dowager Countess in a critically acclaimed television drama series, Downton Abbey, which should have suited Smith’s irony and humor to the letter. The portrayal of a wise, witty and elegant woman based on the character on Downton Abbey, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, eventually helped her receive high critical acclaim as well as become an icon of TV and movie personalities.

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However her first Academy Award nomination was in the same year, 1965 for her portrayal of Desdemona in Othello directed by Laurence Olivier. She took her first Oscar in 1969 for the performance as brilliant but bizarre Edinburgh schoolmistress in Jean Brodie, and it is in a way the drama comedy. Her second Oscar came in the 1978 for her role in California Suite, her acting was so powerful that Michael Caine his co actor was quoted to have said, ‘Maggie did not just steal the movie, she hijacked it’.

However, these are only the awards; throughout the career of the indisputable charm and talent of Dame Maggie Smith there are many other magnificent scenes. In the West End stage, she acted Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest; battled senility in Edward Albee, Three Tall Women at the age of 92; and as a housekeeper in Gosford Park, a wicked black comedy in 2001. These roles, along with countless others, made “Maggie Smith movies and TV shows” synonymous with excellence in acting.

The Queen of England even addressed her efforts to drama in 1990 and even bestowed on her the knighthood which is also given the title of Dame in view of her immense contribution to British culture and theatre. As for the career of Dame Maggie Smith, a successful actress who managed to gain success throughout the years has been appreciated.

With her, the world says a final goodbye to one of the most admired and gifted actresses of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The creation and impact of Dame Maggie Smith are an honourary tribute and lessons about film for future generations.