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Maggie Smith Wiki Biography

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith was born on 28 December 1934, in Ilford, Essex England. Known affectionately world-wide as Maggie Smith, she is a multi-faceted actress, who not only appears on television and in movies but also acts in plays. She is known most recently for her appearances in such movies as the “Harry Potter” films, “The First Wives Club”, “Love and Pain and The Whole Damn Thing”, although “The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie” brought her an Oscar for Best Actress as long ago as 1969. Her  career has spanned more than 60 years.

So how rich is Maggie Smith? It has been estimated by sources that Smith’s net worth is over $16 million, which has mainly come from her career as an actress. As Smith continues to act well into her 80s, there is a possibility that Maggie Smith’s net worth will grow even more.

Maggie started to perform from a young age. When she was 17 years old, Maggie acted in “Twelfth Night” at the Oxford Playhouse, followed by her TV debut in “Oxford Accents” the following year. Later Maggie made her debut in the movie industry in 1956 with her role in “Child in the House”, directed by Cy Endfield, in which she acted with Eric Portman, Stanley Baker, Phyllis Calvert and others, and then on Broadway in the “New Faces of ’56 Review”. In 1958 Maggie acted in “Nowhere To Go”, for which role Maggie received a BAFTA film nomination. With every performance in plays and appearance in the movies Smith became more and more popular. What is more, that was the time when Smith’s net worth really started to grow. Later she also appeared in such movies as “Death on the Nile”, “Clash of the Titans”, “Better Late Than Never”, “The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne” and many others. All these appearances added a lot Maggie Smith’s net worth.

One of the most popular roles of Smith is the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall in “Harry Potter” films. While filming these movies, Maggie worked with Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and many other famous actors. These movie made Smith known all over the world to the present generation, as Harry Potter films are very popular in many countries. The success of these movie has also had a huge impact on the growth of Maggie Smith’s net worth. In addition, Smith has also appeared in such movies as “Ladies in Lavender”, “Becoming Jane”, “From Time to Time”, “My Old Lady and others. During the filming of these movies Smith had an opportunity to work with Kevin Kline, Dominique Pinon, Carice van Houten, Timothy Spall, Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Judi Dench, Mirian Margolyes and many others.

An indication of Maggie Smith’s talents, versatility, and her value to directors, is that she has appeared in almost 60 films, more than 30 TV shows and series, and well over 70 stage productions – a hard-working Dame in deed. In fact she was made a Dame in 1990, having previously been awarded a CBE in 1970 – obviously her achievements are appreciated by royalty, too. Among many other awards connected to her acting, she has an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Cambridge University. During her career as an actress Maggie has won many awards, including the aforementioned Oscars, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Tony Awards and others.

In her personal life, Maggie Smithe was married to Robert Stephens(1967-74) with whom she has two sons. She was then married to Beverley Cross was 1975 until his death in 1998. Having suffered from the disease herself, she is a supporter and patron of the International Glaucoma Association, and other philanthropic efforts.

All in all, it could be said that Maggie Smith is one of the most remarkable actresses in the industry. She will be remembered for a long time as an actress who played the role Professor Minerva McGonagall. Although Smith is now an octogenarian she still continues acting in movies and shows as well as in different plays. Her fans will probably be able to enjoy her acting for a long time in the future. What is more, there is a high possibility that Smith’s net worth will also become higher.

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Maggie Smith Quick Info

Maggie Smith Trademarks

1. Has often played grumpy, acid-witted ladies in the second half of her career.

Maggie Smith Quotes

• Glenn Close isn’t an actress – she’s an address.
• [on whether she will miss filming Harry Potter now that the series is completed] No, it was 10 years, and that’s a lot.
• I’ve won two Oscars and I still don’t begin to understand film acting.
• It’s true I don’t tolerate fools, but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
• [on roles] “When you get into the granny era, you’re lucky to get anything.”
• I tend to head for what’s amusing because a lot of things aren’t happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
• I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn’t really happen. I did Desdemona [at the National, opposite Olivier] with great discomfort and was terrified all the time. But then everyone was terrified of Larry.
• But there was an incredible nervousness about him. You couldn’t do this, couldn’t do that. Mustn’t ride a bike, you’d be bound to fall off. Couldn’t swim, you’d most certainly drown. [on her father]
• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
• “I still miss him so much it’s ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all. Even in my dream I kept saying to him, ‘You are dead. You can’t be here'” [on her second husband, Beverley Cross].
• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
• I love it, I’m privileged to do it and I don’t know where I’d be without it. [on acting]
• “Jude is the most incredibly level person. Generous, understanding. All the things I’d have to work very hard at, Jude is like that all the time. I would love to be like that. And working with Jude you have to try to remember that you ought to be like that” [on her friend Judi Dench].
• One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one’s still acting.

Maggie Smith Important Facts

• Daughter of Nathaniel Smith (1902-1991) and Margaret Hutton Smith (née Little) (1896-1977).
• Her twin brothers Ian and Alistair were born in 1928. Alistair died in 1981.
• Delivered her sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens via Caesarean section as they were both in the breech position.
• She was not present to collect her first Oscar, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969); it was accepted on her behalf by Alice Ghostley, who inadvertently credited the direction of the film to its producer, Robert Fryer.
• Her guest appearance on The Graham Norton Show: Bradley Cooper/Sienna Miller/Dame Maggie Smith/Alex Jennings (2015) marked her first appearance on a TV talk show since she guested on Parkinson: Episode #2.33 (1973) 42 years earlier.
• Is one of 26 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for California Suite (1978). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor (1985)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
• Although she played Nigel Hawthorne, John Wood and Ian McKellen’s mother in Richard III (1995), she was more than five years younger than Hawthorne, four years younger than Wood and less than five years older than McKellen.
• Completed filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) whilst undergoing radio-therapy as treatment for breast cancer.
• She was awarded the CH (Companion of Honour) in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama.
• Was the 68th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) at The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970) on April 7, 1970.
• Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person, Smith’s being for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
• The fight scene between her and Alan Rickman in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) was almost scrapped during the script process of the film. Her character was to be written out of the scene and replaced by another character. However, author ‘J.K Rowling’ insisted that the fight should involve the same characters as those in the novel, as she saw it as a key moment for Smith’s character. The scene was filmed when Smith was 76 years old.
• Performing in the London West End production of “The Lady from Dubuque”. [March 2007]
• Currently resting and recovering from ill health, but soon to start work on From Time to Time (2009), which is based on Lucy M. Boston’s book “The Children of Green Knowe”. [June 2008]
• She appeared in two movies by the same title: Quartet (1981) and Quartet (2012).
• Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a son Toby Stephens on April 21, 1969. Child’s father is her now late ex-1st husband, Robert Stephens.
• Gave birth to her first child at age 32, a son Christopher Stephens (aka Chris Larkin), on June 19, 1967. Child’s father is her boyfriend (now late ex-first husband), Robert Stephens.
• Grandmother to Eli (b. May 2007), Tallulah (b. May 2009), and Kura (b. September 2010), all via son Toby Stephens.
• During the time she was cast in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), producers approached her for further film roles in Cactus Flower (1969) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) but she turned them down as she wanted to limit her film work and focus more on theater.
• Is one of 15 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony); the others in chronological order are: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand and Jessica Lange.
• Not only does she frequently work with Judi Dench, but they have also both worked with each other’s children. Maggie worked with Finty Williams in Gosford Park (2001), while Dench worked with Toby Stephens in Die Another Day (2002).
• She appeared in “The Master Builder” with Michael Redgrave and Celia Johnson (who had replaced the recently deceased Diana Wynyard) as part of the new National Theatre Company in 1964. She and Johnson would later appear together in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
• At the Oscars in 2002, Whoopi Goldberg introduced her, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith as “The Smith Family”.
• In 2008, it was reported that she was fighting breast cancer. She has had a tumor removed and undergone chemotherapy.
• Was a good friend of “Carry On” star Kenneth Williams.
• Has played fictional fascists twice: first Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and then Lady Hester Random in Tea with Mussolini (1999).
• Devoted to author Jane Austen and her work.
• She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture.
• Has been in three films that have the word “secret” in their titles: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Secret Garden (1993) and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002).
• She and her first husband, Robert Stephens, appeared together in “Much Ado About Nothing”. In 1993, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, who were also married at the time, played the same roles. Smith later worked with both Branagh and Thompson in the “Harry Potter” films.
• One of the first people to have a star on the Avenue of Stars – a British version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Seven other “Harry Potter” actors also have one.
• Is a vice-president of Chichester Cinema at New Park. Anita Roddick and Kenneth Branagh are also vice-presidents.
• Was the first of 4 consecutive winners of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to have the initials ‘M.S.’, the others being: Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard (1980), and Maureen Stapleton – Reds (1981).
• While filming Death on the Nile (1978), aboard ship, no one was allowed his or her own dressing room, so she shared a dressing room with Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury.
• Is one of only a few actresses to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar after winning a Best Actress Oscar.
• Was a member of the Old Vic Company from 1959 to 1963, when the company was dissolved. It served as the basis for the new National Theatre being organized by Laurence Olivier, whom invited her to join. She gave a memorable performance as Desdemona opposite Olivier’s Othello at The National Theatre’s temporary home at the Old Vic theater building in 1964. Repeating the performance in the 1965 film made of that production, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination, her first of six Oscar nods.
• Appeared with Laurence Olivier in “Rhinoceros” in the English Stage Company’s 1960 London production. Olivier pronounced her acting “Marvelous.”.
• Had to change her stage name to “Maggie Smith” as there already was an actress named “Margaret Smith” at the time she started in the profession.
• Made her stage debut with the Oxford University Dramatic Society as Viola in Shakespare’s “Twelfth Night.” Bird-dogged by an American theatrical impresario, the part led to her being cast in her Broadway debut in “New Faces of 1956.”
• Educated at the High School for Girls in Oxford, she started out in the theater as a prompt girl and understudy at the Oxford Repertory. She claims she never went on as no one ever fell ill.
• Won Broadway’s 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for “Lettice and Lovage.” She was also nominated twice before in the same category: for a revival of Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” in 1975, and for “Night and Day” in 1980.
• Her twin brothers Ian and Alistair are six years older than she is. They are both architects.
• Her father Nathaniel was a Geordie and a pathologist. Her mother Margaret was a Glaswegian and a secretary.
• Worked with Laurence Olivier in the 1960s at the National Theatre.
• Friends with: Penelope Wilton, Judi Dench, Alice Ghostley, Kenneth Williams, Shirley MacLaine, Dustin Hoffman, Angela Lansbury, Ian McKellen, Pauline Collins, Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Carol Burnett, Alan Rickman, Bette Davis, Julie Andrews, Billy Connolly, Rex Harrison, Lauren Bacall, Roddy McDowell’, and Anthony Powell.
• In 2003, she became the seventeenth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscars: Best Actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) & Best Supporting Actress, California Suite (1978), Tony: Best Actress – Play, “Lettice and Lovage” (1990), and Emmy: Best Actress – Miniseries/Movie, My House in Umbria (2003).
• Portrayed by Ian McKellen on “Saturday Night Live (1975)”.
• She was awarded the 1994 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in “Three Tall Women”.
• She was awarded the 1981 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”.
• She was awarded the 1984 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in “The Way of the World”.
• She was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of the 1997 season for her performance in “A Delicate Balance” at the Haymarket Theatre.
• She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Best Actress for her performance in “The Lady in the Van” at the Queen’s Theatre.
• Mother-in-law of actress Anna-Louise Plowman.
• She ranked tenth in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British film actresses.
• Created an honorary D.Litt of the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge in 1971 and 1995 respectively.
• She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1970 Queen’s New Year Honours List and the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1990 Queen’s New Year Honours List for her services to drama.
• Director Agnieszka Holland admired Maggie Smith for years before making The Secret Garden (1993). She knew of Smith’s talents and immediately offered her the role of Mrs. Medlock.

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