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  1. 1 day ago · Smith won her first Oscar for best actress in 1969’s The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie. The film saw her play the unrestrained teacher at an all-girls school in Edinburgh during the 1930s, who had a ...

  2. 20 hours ago · Aside from Harry Potter, the British star was known for her role as Violet Crawley in the TV series Downton Abbey, as well as her Academy Award-winning performance in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.

  3. 1 day ago · UK From schoolteacher to witch then countess: Dame Maggie Smith’s greatest roles The theatre, film and TV star, who has died aged 89, won two Oscars, four Emmys and one Tony award.

  4. 13 hours ago · Dame Maggie Smith arriving for a Royal Movie Efficiency of Women In Lavender on the Odeon Leicester Sq. in London on November 8, 2004 And in 2010 she was central to the success of the ITV sequence Downton Abbey, in her Emmy-award-winning function because the acerbic Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, which she continued to play within the movies.

  5. 1 day ago · Dame Maggie won a string of awards for her portrayal of Dowager Countess of Grantham (Image: Carnival Films). From 2010 to 2015, Dame Maggie played the quick-witted matriarch Violet Crowley ...

  6. 1 day ago · In Deborah Warner's 'The Last September,' a film which drew mixed reviews, Smith played a Lady of the Manor married to Michael Gambon who are looking after Keeley Hawes' high spirited niece during the Irish War of Independence. The romantic drama also starred David Tennant, Lambert Wilson, Fiona Shaw, Richard Roxburgh, Tom Hickey and Gary Lydon.

  7. 14 hours ago · This was followed by Bafta nominations for Young Cassidy in 1966, Death On The Nile in 1979, California Suite in 1980, Quartet in 1982, The Secret Garden in 1994, Tea With Mussolini in 2000 ...