19521969: Theatre debut and National Theatre, 19701979: International acclaim and awards success, 19801999: Tony win and further acclaim on stage, 19541993: Television debut and early roles, 19992007: Limited series and HBO projects, 19691987: Oscars wins and widespread acclaim, 19811987: Merchant Ivory films and other roles, 19901999: Dramas, comedies, and studio films, 2012present: Independent films and further roles, Ilford was, prior to 1965, part of the County of Essex, but now is part of the County of Greater London, Romford ceased to be part of the County of Essex in 1965, when it was incorporated into the County of Greater London. [68], Smith was appointed a CBE in the 1970 New Year Honours,[69][70] and was made a Dame (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours, for services to the performing arts. Twenty-four years ago, Canadian filmmaker James Cameron told the tragic history of the RMS Titanic a British passenger ship operated by the White Star Line which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. She earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film adaptation of Othello (1965) as Desdemona acting alongside Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi, and Michael Gambon. In 1962, Smith won the first of a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for her roles in Peter Shaffer's plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye, again opposite Kenneth Williams. Over the following decades, Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1995, Smith portrayed the Duchess of York in another film adaptation this time of William Shakespeare's Richard III (1995) starring Ian McKellen in the titular role. WebIn April 1912, wealthy American ex-patriot Julia Sturgess leaves Cherbourg, France, with her children, seventeen-year-old Annette and young Norman, to board the luxurious ocean liner The latter went to architecture school. The film was distributed by Fox Searchlight and received positive reviews. Younger fans most likely remember Garber as Dr. Martin Stein one half of the metahuman superhero Firestorm in the CW superhero series, Legends of Tomorrow. [83] Smith had a star on the London Avenue of Stars until all of the stars were removed in 2006. Margaret Natalie Smith was born on December 28, 1934, in Ilford, England, and grew up in Oxford, where her father worked as a University of Oxford lab technician. Smiths parents were far from avid theatergoers, and her interest in the performing arts came as a surpriseeven to her. But he was a joy. Dame Margaret Natalie Smith[1][2] CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. Shes also launched Red Carpet Green Dress, which focuses on producing sustainable fashion. In 1981, Smith starred in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet alongside Alan Bates and Isabelle Adjani. The play was written specifically for her by the playwright Peter Shaffer. "[42], On 30 October 2015, Smith appeared on BBC's The Graham Norton Show, her first appearance on a chat show in 42 years. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsen's The Master Builder, and played comedic roles in The Recruiting Officer and Much Ado About Nothing all in 1964. [29] David Benedict of Variety criticised the production with however praising Smith writing, "The exception is Maggie Smith, who arrives in the last minute of the first act and then dominates the second. In recent years, DiCaprio has also starred in Quentin Tarantinos most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and just appeared in the Netflix original film Dont Look Up, alongside stars Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep. [56] She also starred in the 1984 Hungarian-American film Lily in Love with Christopher Plummer. [37][38][39] In a March 2015 interview with Joe Utichi in The Sunday Times, Smith announced that the sixth season of Downton Abbey would be her last (it was in fact the last to be produced). As with many of the other passengers, Dawson dies tragically near the end of the movie. Bates is also quite the influential celebrity, as she holds an esteemed title in Hollywood as the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors a title befitting her long, storied career, even if it is a mouthful that no one will ever try to say three times fast. Since the film, the actress has built an exceptional career and resume with a plethora of movies, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, The Holiday, Revolutionary Road, Steve Jobs, and more. Without inflation adjustment, it is the third-highest-grossing film series with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. "There is only one Maggie Smith, but audiences get at least three of her in Lettice and Lovage, the Peter Shaffer comedy that has brought this spellbinding actress back to Broadway after an indecently long absence and that has the shrewd sense to keep her glued to center stage."[26]. The following year she starred in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women for which she garnered critical acclaim. [100][101], On 27 November 2012, she contributed a drawing of her own hand to the 2012 Celebrity Paw Auction, to raise funds for Cats Protection. Zane also went on to nab an array of small roles and cameos in films including Zoolander, Holmes and Watson, Mad Dogs, and the popular sitcom, Community. She continued to act in productions at the Oxford Playhouse including, Cinderella (1952), Rookery Nook (1953), Cakes and Ale (1953), and The Government Inspector (1954). So far, Winslet has earned an Oscar for Best Actress thanks to her performance in The Reader. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the crme de la crme. Afterward, upon hearing that Michael Palin was about to embark on the film The Missionary (1982) with Smith, her co-star Michael Caine is supposed to have humorously telephoned Palin, warning him that she would steal the film. [32] Matt Wolf of The New York Times wrote, "[Smith's performance] represents a new high in a six-decade career with no shortage of peaks", and added "The audience knows it is witnessing something special". One of Hollywoods most successful actors even before his time on the Titanic as the treasure hunter Brock Lovett Bill Paxton was well-known for his roles in major movies like Twister, Apollo 13, and True Lies. [33] Her performance won her a record sixth Best Actress Evening Standard award.[34][35]. The program features a variety of live performances from productions by the Royal National Theatre from the past five decades:[41] The programme features a clip from the 1964 production of Hay Fever by Nol Coward starring Smith and Anthony Nichols which introduces her giving a live monologue from The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar featuring Maggie Smith. [31] Variety theatre critic praised Smith's performance, writing, "Its a performance that combines the knowingness of hindsight with the naivety of youth, blas enough to catch you off-guard when the magnitude of events suddenly cuts through". Dcouvrez tous les films et sries de la filmographie de Maggie Smith. From 2001 to 2011, Smith gained significant international recognition and acclaim for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies. [78][6] At the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, she was celebrated with the Society of London Theatre Special Award. In 2012, she played Muriel Donnelly in the British comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel alongside Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, and Penelope Wilton. Maggie Smith is adored worldwide for her portrayal of Professor McGonagall, but the actress says being part of the Harry Potter films "wasn't satisfying" enough. "[24] Smith received her first Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award nomination. Maggie Smith plays proper Charlotte Bartlett, older cousin to young Lucy, played by Helena Bonham-Carter (another Harry Potter alum) as the two travel in Italy. WebMaggie was born on August 11, 1890 and was from a town called Askeaton in county Lymerick, Ireland. On the Broadway stage she received Tony Award nominations for Nol Coward's Private Lives (1975) and David Hare's Night and Day (1979), winning Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990). "[62] Smith received a Golden Globe Award and British Academy Film Award nominations for her performance. Release Dates Official Sites In 2016, while promoting, The Lady in the Van, Smith shared her experiences working on the Harry Potter films and working with the late Alan Rickman. They had two sons, actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969),[88] and were divorced on 6 April 1975. Dame Maggie opened up about the role. However, the pigs were "unpredictable and often quite dangerous". Her role in A Room With a View was minor, playing Judi Dench's charge, Lucy Honeychurch, but she costarred amongst incredibly talented actors, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Maggie Smith. The play concerns a confrontation between British diplomat and an African leader over a local uprising that has attracted much media coverage. In 1982, she starred as Daphne Castle in the locked-room mystery film Evil Under the Sun opposite Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin and Diana Rigg. She won an Emmy for her role on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, before appearing in five seasons of the FX original series American Horror Story as Madame Delphine LaLaurie, for which she earned another Emmy. WebMaggie Smith. Since Titanic, Garber has appeared in several major films including Legally Blond, Milk, Argo, and the Happiest Season. In 2018, Smith starred in a British documentary titled Nothing Like a Dame, directed by Roger Michell, which documents conversations between actresses Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, and Joan Plowright, which were interspersed with scenes from their careers on film and stage. 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Never before had anyone on stage been quicker than him and now, it seemed, there was a contest. [6] In 1996, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented her with the BAFTA Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow. [6] Smith also played the goddess Thetis in Clash of the Titans (1981). In 1997 Smith starred in another Albee play A Delicate Balance opposite Eileen Atkins. [36] In the mid-1970s, she made several guest appearances on The Carol Burnett Show. After the film, Stuart continued to act, with her last role being the 2004 film Land of Plenty. FACT It sounds like fiction but in the 1890s, a novel called From the Old World to the New follows the transatlantic crossing of a White Star ship called the Majestica real ship, helmed from 1895 to 1904 by none other than Captain E.J. The film's plot is being described as a "joyful and hilarious" journey of a group of riotous working-class women from Dublin, whose pilgrimage to Lourdes in France leads them to discover each other's friendship and their own personal miracles. But having got her into the company they became not enemies, but professional rivals. His first feature was Room at the Top with Simone Signoret and he made The Innocents with Deborah Kerr and The Pumpkin Eater with Anne Bancroft he knows how to show women's temperatures and their mind-body inter-actions. In 1996, Zane starred as the lead role in Simon Wincers superhero flick, The Phantom. Her portrayal as the haughty Constance, Countess of Trentham earned Smith her sixth Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress alongside Mirren. 9. Maggie Smith battled breast cancer while filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In 2009, news broke that Maggie Smith had been undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer in the midst of filming the sixth Harry Potter film. I was hairless. The film was a financial success, and earned $194.3 million at the box office. Over her distinguished career she has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances: She has also received a Tony Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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