Title: Maggie Smith Content: Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is a British actress. She is better known as Maggie Smith. She made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 60 years. She has won many awards for acting, both for the stage and for movies, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards and two special awards including the Bafta Fellowship in 1996), two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, two SAG Awards and a Tony Award. Her award winning movies include Othello (1965), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She has also been in a number of widely-popular movies, including Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992) and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movie series. She currently stars in the drama Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she has won an Emmy. Smith was born in Ilford, Essex. She moved to Oxford at age four and went to Oxford High School. ==Personal life== Smith has been married twice. She married actor Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967 at Greenwich. The couple had two sons: actors Chris Larkin (born in 1967) and Toby Stephens (born in 1969). They divorced on 6 May 1974.Maggie Smith biography . Tiscali.film & TV.Maggie Smith. Film Reference.com. She married playwright Beverley Cross on 23 August 1975 at Guildford. He died on 20 March 1998. In 2007, the Sunday Telegraph' reported that she had breast cancer. She has made a full recovery. ==Filmography== ===Television and cinema===  ===Theatre roles=== * Twelfth Night, Oxford Playhouse, 1952 * He Who Gets Slapped, Clarendon Press Institute, 1952 * Cinderella, Oxford Playhouse, 1952 * Rookery Nook, Oxford Playhouse, 1953 * The Housemaster, Oxford Playhouse, 1953 * Cakes and Ale (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1953 * The Love of Four Colonels, Oxford Playhouse, 1953 * The Ortolan, Maxton Hall, 1954 * Don’t Listen Ladies, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 * The Government Inspector, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 * The Letter, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 * A Man About The House, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 * On the Mile (revue), Edinburgh Festival, 1954 * Oxford Accents, New Watergate Theatre, London, 1954 * Theatre 1900, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 * Listen to the Wind, Oxford Playhouse, 1954 * The Magistrate, Oxford Playhouse, 1955 * The School For Scandal, Oxford Playhouse, 1955 * New Faces (revue), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1956 * Share My Lettuce (revue), Lyric Hammersmith and Comedy Theatre, 1957 * The Stepmother, St. Martin's Theatre, 1958 * The Double Dealer, Old Vic, 1959 * As You Like It, Old Vic, 1959 * Richard II, Old Vic, 1959 * The Merry Wives of Windsor, Old Vic, 1959 * What Every Woman Knows, Old Vic, 1960 * Rhinoceros, Strand Theatre, 1960 * Strip the Willow, UK Tour, 1960 * The Rehearsal, Bristol Old Vic and Globe Theatre, 1961 * The Private Ear and The Public Eye, Globe Theatre, 1962 * Mary, Mary, Queen's Theatre, 1963 * The Recruiting Officer, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1963 * Othello, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964 * The Master Builder, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964 * Hay Fever, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1964 * Much Ado About Nothing, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965 * Trelawney of the Wells, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1965 * Miss Julie, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966 * Black Comedy, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966 * A Bond Honoured, National Theatre/Old Vic, 1966 * The Country Wife, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1969 * The Beaux Stratagem, National Theatre/Old Vic and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1970 * Hedda Gabler, National Theatre/Cambridge Theatre, 1970 * Design For Living, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1971 * Private Lives, Queen's Theatre, 1972 * Peter Pan, London Coliseum, 1973 * Snap, Vaudeville Theatre, 1974 * Private Lives, US tour and 46th Street Theatre, New York, 1975 [Tony nomination] * The Way of the World, Stratford, Canada, 1976 * Antony and Cleopatra, Stratford, Canada, 1976 * Three Sisters, Stratford, Canada, 1976 * The Guardsman, Stratford, Canada and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1976 * A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stratford, Canada and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1977 * Richard III, Stratford, Canada, 1977 * As You Like It, Stratford, Canada, 1977 * Hay Fever, Stratford, Canada, 1977 * Macbeth, Stratford, Canada, 1978 * Private Lives, Stratford, Canada, 1978 * Night and Day, Phoenix Theatre, Washington D.C. and ANTA Playhouse, New York, 1979 [Tony nomination] * Much Ado About Nothing, Stratford, Canada, 1980 * The Seagull, Stratford, Canada, 1980 * Virginia, Stratford, Canada, 1980 and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1981 * The Way of the World, Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1984 * The Interpreters, Queen's Theatre, 1985 * The Infernal Machine, Lyric Hammersmith, 1986 * Coming Into Land, National Theatre/Lyttelton, 1987 * Lettice and Lovage, Globe Theatre, 1987 * Lettice and Lovage, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1990 [Tony win] * The Importance of Being Earnest, Aldwych Theatre, 1993 * Three Tall Women, Wyndham's Theatre, 1994 and 1995 * Talking Heads, Chichester Festival Theatre and Comedy Theatre, 1996 * A Delicate Balance, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1997 * The Lady in the Van, Queen's Theatre, 1999 * The Breath of Life, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2002 * Talking Heads, Australian tour, 2004 * The Lady From Dubuque, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2007