Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Michael Gambon will forever be linked by more than just their work on the “Harry Potter” movies. Perhaps best known in recent years for their portrayals of Professor Minerva ...

We very nearly didn't have Maggie Smith in our archive. She was available in 2016 to promote a film, but we were told she wouldn't sit for a long interview about her career. She couldn't imagine why ...

“I cannot accept ‘merely.’ I do not do anything ‘merely,’” says Lettice Douffet, a tour guide to a stately English home with an epic history of dullness in Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play “Lettice and ...

As the world mourns the loss of Downton Abbey star Dame Maggie Smith, series creator and writer Julian Fellowes has taken a moment to pay tribute. In a statement to Variety, he described the late dame ...

“It’s a very sad day for the whole culture of theater and cinema in England. … She was one of the greatest actresses of the past century, without a doubt.” — actor Helen Mirren, in an interview with ...

Maggie Smith appears at the premiere of the film “The Lady In The Van”, during the London film festival in London on Oct. 13, 2015. Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 ...

British stage and screen actress Maggie Smith, the “Downton Abbey” and “Harry Potter” star who numbers two Oscars, three Emmys and countless stage awards to her credit, died Friday in London. She was ...

Bafta viewers were left upset after veteran actor Dame Maggie Smith appeared to have been “snubbed” from the TV Awards’ In Memoriam segment on Sunday (11 May). Actors who are more closely associated ...

The longtime friends enjoyed sharing several special moments in their careers Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images; SGranitz/WireImage Dame Maggie Smith will be remembered for her incomparable skills ...

Smith, who played Professor McGonagall in the fantasy franchise, died at age 89 on Friday, Sept. 27, while Gambon died on the same date in 2023 at age 82 The two actors died on the exact same date — ...