British actor Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in “Downton Abbey,” has died, her family said on Friday. She was 89.
in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham inThe news was confirmed by her sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens who said in a statement: “She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27 September.
Smith’s long career started on the stage in the 1950s, and she was one of the few actors to win the treble of an Oscar , Emmy , and Tony.OthelloThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.a performance that prompted co-star Michael Caine to say: “Maggie didn’t just steal the film, she committed grand larceny.
“I’m not kidding. I’d go to theatres, I’d go to galleries, things like that, on my own. And now I can’t and that’s awful.” She had a tempestuous eight-year marriage to actor Robert Stephens, which ended while they were playing newly entangled divorcees in Noel Coward’sSmith then married her teenage sweetheart, writer Beverley Cross, a rock of imperturbability for her until his death in 1998.In 1990 Smith was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and became a Dame.
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