The icon of stage and screen won an Oscar in 1969 and went on to win a whole new array of fans in the 21st century thanks to the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey series.
Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital."She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs.
Smith drily summarised her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques", including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: ", said she was "intellectually the smartest actress I've ever worked with. You have to get up very, very early in the morning to outwit Maggie Smith"., in which she played a dangerously charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher, brought her the Academy Award for best actress, and the British Academy Film Award as well in 1969.
Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, on the eastern edge of London, on December 28, 1934. She summed up her life briefly: "One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, one's still acting." "I did so many things, you know, round the universities there. ... If you were kind of clever enough and I suppose quick enough, you could almost do weekly rep because all the colleges were doing different productions at different times," she said in a BBC interview.
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