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  1. Maggie Smith's career began at the Oxford Playhouse in the 1950s. She made her film debut in 1956 as one of the party guests in Child in the House (1956). She has since performed in over sixty films and television series with some of the most prominent actors and actresses in the world.

  2. Dame Maggie Smith is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Smith made her professional theatre debut in 1956 playing Viola in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in musical revue New Faces of 1956 (1956).

  3. May 26, 2022 · For six seasons and two movies, Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, was both the emotional and comedic center of “Downton Abbey.” The deadpan matriarch of the family was...

  4. Feb 15, 2024 · Maggie Smith started her stage career as a student at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her first appearance on Broadway in New Faces of '56. She became one of the leading British theatre actors, along with Judi Dench, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

  5. Sep 5, 2019 · Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! Ahead of Smith’s withering return in the Downton Abbey movie, we rate her greatest big screen performances so far, from spinsterish aunt to voracious...

  6. Apr 10, 2024 · Maggie Smith (born December 28, 1934, Ilford, Essex, England) is an English stage and motion-picture actress noted for her poignancy and wit in comic roles. Smith studied acting at the Oxford Playhouse School and began appearing in revues in Oxford in 1952 and London in 1955.

  7. May 22, 2022 · In honor of all of Violet's delicious scenes (and her treasure trove of endlessly quotable bon mots), here are Maggie Smith's most memorable moments on Downton Abbey.

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