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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · Maggie Smith is a British actress best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' as well as her role in the Harry Potter series and 'Downton Abbey.'...

  2. Maggie Smith. Actress: Gosford Park. One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University.

  3. Apr 10, 2024 · Maggie Smith, English stage and motion-picture actress noted for her poignancy and wit in comic roles. During a multi-decade career, she won Academy Awards for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978), and she appeared in the popular Harry Potter films and the TV series Downton Abbey.

  4. Dec 26, 2014 · Maggie Smith: from Desdemona to Downton – a career of comic precision. Emine Saner. As muse to the writer of Downton Abbey, the actor distills in her dowager-countess role her steely wit and...

  5. May 29, 2022 · Leisure. Arts & Culture. Wit, Wisdom, and Withering Remarks: An Appreciation of Downton Abbey 's Dowager Countess. How Maggie Smith's Violet Crawley became a pop-culture icon, whether she'd...

  6. May 23, 2022 · After six seasons and two films, Maggie Smith is saying goodbye to the franchise that turned her into a veritable meme factory with her biting retorts and snappy dialogue.

  7. May 22, 2022 · When Downton Abbey premiered in 2010, Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham (played by Dame Maggie Smith ), quickly won the hearts of audiences with her biting retorts and dry way...

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