Dame Maggie Smith was one of Britain's best-loved and ... One of Dame Maggie’s most iconic early roles was as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello. Sir Laurence Olivier, who was playing the ...

Shakespeare, she added ... a whole new generation were introduced to the acting marvels of Dame Maggie Smith. In 2001, she took on the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter ...

And now I can’t. And that’s awful." Life in pictures: Dame Maggie Smith Shakespeare to Harry Potter: Six of her greatest roles Obituary: A formidable star on stage and screen She added that ...

Now, one of Dame Maggie Smith’s earliest Shakespearean performances ... by the BBC and British Council with partners The RSC, Shakespeare's Globe, BFI, Royal Opera House and Hay Festival.

Throughout her seven-decade career, Dame Maggie Smith won hundreds of accolades. She was nominated for six Oscars in total, ...

Over the following decades Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.