"Oh, how absolutely ghastly. How absolutely awful. I can't think of anything worse. I haven't done anything. I don't know what it is I do," gasped actress Dame Maggie Smith when British theatre critic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A woman says the “shortest first date ever” — which lasted just 45 seconds — has made her delete all her dating apps. Maggie Smith, 32, never imagined a candid TikTok video recounting her shortest ...

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 — ...

Maggie Smith, the renowned British actress best known to American audiences for her roles in the "Harry Potter" films and the masterpiece series "Downton Abbey," died last Friday in London.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Maggie Smith, the renowned British actress best known to American audiences for her roles in the "Harry Potter" films and the masterpiece series "Downton Abbey," ...