Dame Maggie Smith, an iconic actress for ... Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series and Lady Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey. Smith was born in Essex in 1934 to a pathologist father ...

Maggie Smith, an acting giant who became beloved ... the way that the U.S. still sadly does not. Playing a wealthy old lady become a specialty for Smith: Think of her chastising those approving ...

Janet McTeer is reportedly in talks to take over from the late Dame Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall in HBO's new Harry Potter series ...

Oscar-winning actress Dame Maggie Smith has been lauded as one of ... 2011’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and 2014 drama My ...

I first became aware of Maggie in 1964, when I was 15 years old, and my mother had taken me ... And so it was, in the hands ...

Britain's Maggie Smith, the double Oscar-winner who shone ... UK actor Kristin Scott Thomas, who appeared alongside Smith in ...

In a fêted seven-decade career spanning stage, screen, and television — never once proving less than incredible, with her protuberant eyes and wry tone — Dame Maggie Smith was a national ...

Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter has said the cast of the hit ITV series was lucky to have worked so closely with Dame Maggie ...

In “The Lady in the Van ... livelier place with Maggie Smith in it and now she is not. In many ways, she helped redefine what ...