Dame Maggie Smith has died, 89.

[LaLaLand]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk7375ngkxo

Actress Dame Maggie Smith, known for the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89, her family has said.
A statement from her sons Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin said: "It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith.
"She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end. She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother.
"We would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful staff at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for their care and unstinting kindness during her final days.
"We thank you for all your kind messages and support and ask that you respect our privacy at this time."

RIP Maggie. British institution and a proper legend. :sad:

[Kate!]

RIP. Fantastic talent.

[Kazanne]

Aw very sad,loved her brilliant actress, her son is also a great actor,it follows in the family.RIP lovely lady.

[bots]

She was a brilliant actress

[joeysteele]

Really sad news.

An absolutely superb actress and incredibly talented.
R.I.P.

[AnnieK]

Aw....Professor McGonagall. :sad:
RIP

Legend

[Crimson Dynamo]

LBC just did a lovely tribute. What a career she had. I will never forget her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


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[Nicky91]

brilliant actress, a real legend to the UK's film and tv scene :love:

she'll be missed


RIP Dame Maggie :bawling:


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last year, she went into the history books with her cover for Vogue

[GoldHeart]

Awww no R.I.P.

Another classic great gone.

[Nicky91]

she was Toby's mom, didn't know that honestly :love:

[Ray.]

Damn. I know for a lot of people here, she'll probably be best remembered for a number of classy period dramas and whatnot, but for me she'll always be Professor McGonagall. R.I.P.

Morbidly though, I have to admit that everytime I saw her I wondered how long she had left.

[GoldHeart]

she was Toby's mom, didn't know that honestly :love:

Neither did I ,I've learnt something new .... he's a very familiar face . I didn't realise legend Dame Maggie was his mother...awww :love: .

[Nicky91]

i know Maggie the most from Harry Potter, Sister Act, Keeping Mum

my mom loved her in Downton Abbey




but some of her awards she had won

Smith was appointed a CBE in the 1970 New Year Honours,[108][109] and was made a Dame (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours, for services to the performing arts.[109][110] Smith was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to drama in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours,[111][112] becoming the third actress to receive the honour, after Dame Sybil Thorndike (1970) and Dame Judi Dench (2005).[citation needed]

In 1971, Smith was conferred an honorary doctor of letters (DLitt) by the University of St Andrews.[113] In 1986, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bath.[114] In 1994, Smith received an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Cambridge.[115] In October 2017, Smith was conferred with an honorary fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford.[116]

Over her career she was recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:[citation needed]

38th Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, nomination, for Othello (1965)
42nd Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, win, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
45th Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, nomination, Travels with My Aunt (1972)
51st Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, win, California Suite (1978)
59th Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, nomination, for A Room with a View (1986)
74th Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, nomination, for Gosford Park (2001)
She also received a Tony Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1993, she was awarded with the BAFTA Special Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.[7] In 1996, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented her with the BAFTA Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow.[117][7] At the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, she was celebrated with the Society of London Theatre Special Award. In 2013, she was awarded with the Evening Standard Icon Award.[118]

She was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1991.[119] Smith was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture in 1992.[120] She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994. In 1995, she was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Film and Television UK.[121][122] On 10 April 1999, Smith received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (The Will Award) presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., in recognition of her significant contribution to classical theatre in the US.[123] On 9 February 2014 she was inducted into the Actors Hall of Fame.[124] Smith had a star on the London Avenue of Stars until all of the stars were removed in 2006.[125] In September 2012, she was honoured with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award. She accepted the award, presented to her by Christopher Plummer, in a ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.[126] In March 2016, Smith was awarded the Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts.[127] In April 2016, she was awarded the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the performing arts


she was probably the greatest ever british actress

[Maru]

Brilliant woman. Loved Downton Abbey..

[LaLaLand]

As a 90’s kid I’ll always know her best from the Sister Act movies. :love:

[Tony Montana]

RIP to a fantastic actress, one of the all-time greats.

She died on the first anniversary of Michael Gambon's (Dumbledore) death too. A spooky coincidence indeed.

[Strictly Jake]

Nooooo!!

[joeysteele]

LBC just did a lovely tribute. What a career she had. I will never forget her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


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Brilliant film.

[Livia]

Truly sorry to hear this. Surely one of the biggest talents we've ever produced. Loved her in so many things too numerous to mention.

[Glenn.]

I’m friends with people that have worked with her.

So sad. May she rest in peace

[rusticgal]

Amazing actress...so sad.

[Ammi]

…awwwww, just a wonderful actress…an icon and legend…

…the most recent film I watched with her was The Miracle Club, which I loved…I also loved The Lady in the Van, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and I loved her Mother Superior in Sister Act….but there wasn’t a role or movie that she didn’t lift higher with her presence…a great lady, a great age, a great life filled with so much that she loved…Dame Maggie Smith…:love:…

[arista]

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She will be missed,

[Kazanne]

Neither did I ,I've learnt something new .... he's a very familiar face . I didn't realise legend Dame Maggie was his mother...awww :love: .

He is another great actor,takes after his mom.saw him in Jayne Eyre not long back.

[arista]

Ch5HD is showing
there Marvellous Maggie Smith
again.

Tonight 7:30PM - 9PM

[smudgie]

Truly worthy of the accolade legend.
A good long life well lived, may she rest in peace.

[andybigbro]

Aww. Very sad :sad: RIP

[Gusto Brunt]

Sad. Great actress. In many memorable films and TV programmes. RIP. :(

[Niamh.]

RIP professor [emoji25]

[Ammi]

RIP professor [emoji25]

NIAMH

…I was just looking back at the cast of the very first movie…/Philosopher’s Stone and thinking how many of the cast that have now passed…Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Richard Griffiths and Verne Troyer…forever in Hogwarts…:love:…

[Niamh.]

NIAMH

…I was just looking back at the cast of the very first movie…/Philosopher’s Stone and thinking how many of the cast that have now passed…Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Richard Griffiths and Verne Troyer…forever in Hogwarts…:love:…Oh wow, a lot of legends on that list [emoji26]

[GoldHeart]

NIAMH

…I was just looking back at the cast of the very first movie…/Philosopher’s Stone and thinking how many of the cast that have now passed…Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Richard Griffiths and Verne Troyer…forever in Hogwarts…:love:…

Yeah very sad ,so many great actors .

[Ammi]

NIAMH

…I was just looking back at the cast of the very first movie…/Philosopher’s Stone and thinking how many of the cast that have now passed…Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Richard Griffiths and Verne Troyer…forever in Hogwarts…:love:…

Oh wow, a lot of legends on that list [emoji26]

Yeah very sad ,so many great actors .

…I’d forgotten that we’d lost two Dumbledores and was only looking at the cast of Philosopher’s Stone with Richard Harris as Dumbledore …Michael Gambon as well, though…and interestingly he died on 27 September last year which is exactly one year to the day of Maggie Smith dying….

[Mystic Mock]

RIP