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Maggie Smith
28 December 1934
Maggie Smith played in 25 movies in the Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Romance, Action, Fantasy, Family, Music, Animation, Biography genres.
Maggie Smith got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
Breathes there a theatergoer or film booster on Earth who has not, at one time or another, fallen in value with the sublimely brilliant British comedic actress Dame Maggie Smith? The daughter of an Oxford University pathologist, Smith received her earliest acting training at the Oxford Playhouse School. In 1952, she made her professional stage burden as Viola in Twelfth Night. Four years later she was on Broadway, performing comedy routines in Leonard Sillman's Untrained Faces of 1956;
... that constant year, she made her first, extremely r‚sum‚ screen appearance in Woman in the House (she as a rule refers to 1959's Nowhere to Go to the happy hunting-grounds as her screen debut).
In 1959, Smith joined the Old Vic, and in 1962 won the first of several performing honors, the London Evening Standard Reward, for her function in the West Wind up presentation The Private Ear/The Business Eye. Her consequent after repertory prizes subsume the 1963 and 1972 Variety Team up awards for Mary Mary and Private Lives, respectively, and the 1990 Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway play Lettice and Lovage. In addition, Smith has won Oscars for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978), and British Dim Academy awards for A Concealed Work as (1985), A Scope With a Inspection (1986), and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987).
These accolades notwithstanding, Smith has had no qualms about accepting such "lightweight" roles as lady sleuth Dora Charleston (a delicious Myrna Loy takeoff) in Murder During Death (1976), the aging Wendy in Steven Spielberg's Peter Culminate derivation In the clear (1991), and the Mother Elevated in Whoopi Goldberg's Sister Law films of the inopportune '90s. During the same decade, she also took more life-and-death roles in Richard III (1995), Washington Square (1997), and Tea With Mussolini (1999). On a lighter note, her position in director Robert Altman's Gosford Reservation earned Smith her sixth Oscar nomination. Made a Dame Commander in 1989, Smith was elected to the Place Hall of Fame in 1994. Some time ago married to the behindhand actor Sir Robert Stephens, she is the wife of screenwriter Beverly Cross and the protect of actors Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin.
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