Deliciously pest Dowager Countess of the Downton Abbey series, rigorous witch director of Hogwarts in the saga harry potter…the elderly British woman who worked in theater and film for more than seventy years has died at the age of 89, her family announced on Friday, September 27. Margaret Natalie Smith, known as Maggie Smith, whose career began in 1951, has never stopped acting. In demand until the end by directors and filmmakers, she contradicted the widespread idea that an actress becomes undesirable as she ages.
On stage he played important roles in the classical repertoire, but also contemporary ones, in around a hundred pieces. Having appeared in almost sixty feature films, he has acted for prestigious authors such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Bee-eater for three bees1967), George Cukor (travel with my aunt1972), Robert Altman (Gosford Park2001). He never shied away from popular films and liked to entertain with comedies. In this area, the two aspects of Sisters Law in 1992 (Emile Ardolino) and 1993 (Bill Duke), where she is the mother superior of the convent that serves as a refuge for the daring Whoopi Goldberg, are among her greatest successes.
This impressive career made her one of the most awarded actresses in the seventh art, a profession that has two Oscars in her honor: best actress for Miss Brodie’s Beautiful Years (1969) by Ronald Neame, in which she plays an impetuous teacher, determined to impose, during the 1930s, unorthodox teaching methods in a college for girls; and best supporting actress for California Hotel (1978) by Herbert Ross.
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To these two statuettes were added three Golden Globes (one for Room with viewby James Ivory, in 1986), five Baftas for best actress and two honorary awards, two Emmy awards for the series Downton Abbey… An honorary doctor from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and the University of London, Maggie Smith was also appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 and Companion of Honor in 2014, for services to the country in the field of the arts. This record, which she barely talked about, put the icing on the cake, crowning both her talent and the determination she showed since she was little.
Born on December 28, 1934 in Ilford, in the eastern suburbs of London, Margaret Natalie Smith quickly acquired a strong character and hard desires. When I was a child I wanted to be an actress. Nothing will dissuade him, not even the arguments of reason that his parents used against him. Her mother, a secretary, and her father, a university professor, consider their daughter’s ambition to be unserious and irresponsible. The little girl stood up to them until she won her case at the age of 17, the age at which she entered the Oxford Playhouse School. It was on this stage where he played his first roles and began his career.
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