British actress Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89. During his lifetime, he made a considerable career as an actor.
Beloved British actress Maggie Smith died on September 27 at the age of 89. Smith’s family said he slept peacefully at the hospital early Friday morning.
Smith had a great career as an actor. He discovered acting as a teenager and continued until his last years. He played his first film role already in 1956 and his first leading role a couple of years later At a dead endin the movie.
The 1969 film is considered his breakthrough Miss Brodie’s best yearsfor which Smith received his first Academy Award.
After numerous TV series and movie appearances in the past decades, he has been seen in, among other things, Beloved Harry Potter -film series in the role of Professor McGarmiva and Downtown Abbey in the series as Violet Crawley.
Maggie Smith got her first major role in the movie Umpikujassa (Nowhere to go), which was released in 1958. AOP
Maggie Smith pictured at her London home in 1963. AOP
Smith, her ex-husband Robert Stephens and their first-born son Chris Lark, photographed at the turn of the 60s and 70s. AOP
Both of Maggie Smith’s sons also became actors. His cub Toby was born in 1969. AOP
Smith in the 1965 film based on William Shakespeare’s play Othello. AOP
Maggie Smith had her breakthrough role in The Best Years of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). She won her first Oscar for the title role. AOP
Smith received the second Oscar of his career for the 1978 comedy film Weekend in California (California Suite). AOP
Smith starred in the 1978 film Death on the Nile, based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name. AOP
Smith photographed in the 80s. AOP
After divorcing her children’s father, Robert Stephens, Smith married Beverley Cross in 1975. Cross died in March 1998. AOP
Smith has earned several awards during his career. Photo from 1994. AOP
Maggie Smith in the 2000s. AOP
One of Smith’s most famous roles was Minerva McGarmiva in the Harry Potter film series. AOP
Maggie Smith was seen in the 2007 film Becoming Jane. AOP
Smith was involved in the beloved Harry Potter film series from start to finish. AOP
Smith played Violet Crawley in the British series Downtown Abbey. AOP
Maggie Smith also appeared in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film series. Photo from 2011. AOP
Maggie Smith also starred in the highly popular Downtown Abbey series in her last years. AOP
Smith continued to act even in his last years. He was seen, among other things, in the 2021 film A Boy Called Christmas. AOP
Maggie Smith photographed in the audience of the Wimbledon tennis tournament in the summer of 2023. AOP