Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in 'Downton Abbey' and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday at 89.
Friday, September 27, 2024 1:52PMMaggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in " Downton Abbey " and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.
She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything." Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for "California Suite" in 1978, Golden Globes for "California Suite" and "Room with a View," and BAFTAs for lead actress in "A Private Function" in 1984, "A Room with a View" in 1986, and "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" in 1988.
Critic Frank Rich, in a New York Times review of "Lettice and Lovage," praised Smith as "the stylized classicist who can italicize a line as prosaic as 'Have you no marmalade?' until it sounds like a freshly minted epigram by Coward or Wilde." Her father was assigned in 1939 to wartime duty in Oxford, where her theater studies at the Oxford Playhouse School led to a busy apprenticeship.
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