Maggie Smith

**Dame Margaret Natalie Smith**  (28 Disember 1934 − 27 September 2024), lebih dikenali sebagai **Maggie Smith**, merupakan pelakon Inggeris yang terkenal dalam bidang filem, teater, dan televisyen. Smith membuat teater debutnya pada tahun 1952 dan mempunyai kerjaya lakonana yang amat luas dalam bidang teater, filem dan televisyen melebihi 60 tahun. Smith telah memenangi banyak anugerah untuk lakonannya, kedua-duanya untuk teater dan filem, termasuklah tujuh Anugerah BAFTA (lima anugerah bersaing dan dua anugerah khas termasuklah BAFTA Fellowship pada tahun 1996), dua Anugerah Academy, dua Anugerah Golden Globe, tiga Anugerah Emmy, dan satu Anugerah Tony.

Antara filem-filemnya yang terkenal termasuklah 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), Gosford Park (2001) dan The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012). Smith kini sedang membintangi drama bersiri popular, Downton Abbey sebagai Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, yang mana Smith telah memenangi satu Anugerah Golden Globe dan dua Anugerah Emmy untuknya.

Pada September 2012, Smith telah diberi Anugerah Legasi oleh Festival Stratford Shakespeare sebagai tanda penghormatan dan terima kasih ke atas sumbangan yang telah diberikan olehnya dalam menaikkan nama syarikat teater tersebut pada akhir 70-an. Smith menerima anugerah tersebut daripada Christopher Plummer didalam sebuah majlis di Hotel Fairmont Royal York.

## Kehidupan awal
Smith dilahirkan di Ilford di Essex, kepada Nathaniel Smith, yang bekerja di Universiti Oxford, dan Margaret Hutton Little, yang merupakan orang Scotland; dia mempunyai dua orang abang kembar, Alistair dan Ian. Dia belajar di Sekolah Tinggi Oxford.

## Kerjaya
Smith mempunyai banyak pengalaman dalam bidang teater langsung atau tidak langsung dan merupakan salah seorang daripada pelakon teater terunggul di England. Kerjaya lakonannya bermulai Oxford Playhouse bersama dengan Frank Shelley, dan filem pertamanya adalah pada tahun 1956. Pada tahun 1969 dia memenangi kategori Pelakon Wanita Terbaik Anugerah Academy bagi watak lakonannya dalam filem *[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]*.

Sepanjang kariernya, Smith amat dikagumi kerana teknik-teknik lakonan yang hebat baik di skrin mahupun teater.

## Kehidupan peribadi dan kematian
* Smith berkahwin sebanyak dua kali. Dia mengahwini Robert Stephens pada 29 Jun 1967, di Pejabat Pendaftar Greenwich Registry dan mempunyai dua orang anak lelaki iaitu Chris Larkin (lahir 1967) dan Toby Stephens (lahir 1969). Mereka bercerai pada 6 Mei 1974. 

* Beliau mengahwini Beverly Cross (pada 23 Ogos 1975 di Pejabat Pendaftar Guildford dan perkahwinan itu tamat selepas kematian Cross pada 20 Mac 1998.

* Smith meninggal dunia di Hospital Chelsea dan Westminster di London, pada 27 September 2024, berusia 89 tahun. Smith telah berterus terang tentang masalah kesihatannya pada masa lalu iaitu menghidap glaukoma, penyakit Graves, dan kanser payudara.

## Filemografi

### Filem

### Television

### Teater

* *[[Twelfth Night]]*, Oxford Playhouse, 1952
* *[[He Who Gets Slapped]]*, Clarendon Press Institute, 1952
* *[[Cinderella]]*, Oxford Playhouse, 1952
* *[[Rookery Nook (play)|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 (play)|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 (play)|The Magistrate]]*, Oxford Playhouse, 1955
* *[[The School For Scandal]]*, Oxford Playhouse, 1955
* *New Faces of '56* (revue), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1956
* *[[Share My Lettuce]]* (revue), Lyric Hammersmith and Comedy Theatre, 1957
* *[[The Stepmother (play)|The Stepmother]]*, St. Martin's Theatre, 1958
* *[[The Double Dealer]]*, Old Vic, 1959
* *[[As You Like It]]*, Old Vic, 1959
* *[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]*, Old Vic, 1959
* *[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]*, Old Vic, 1959
* *[[What Every Woman Knows (play)|What Every Woman Knows]]*, Old Vic, 1960
* *[[Rhinoceros]]*, Strand Theatre, 1960
* *[[Strip the Willow]]*, UK Tour, 1960
* *[[The Rehearsal (play)|The Rehearsal]]*, Bristol Old Vic and Globe Theatre, 1961
* *[[The Private Ear (play)|The Private Ear]]* and *[[The Public Eye (play)|The Public Eye]]*, Globe Theatre, 1962
* *[[Mary, Mary (play)|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 (play)|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 (play)|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 (play)|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 (play)|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 (play)|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 (series)|Talking Heads]]*, Chichester Festival Theatre and Comedy Theatre, 1996
* *[[A Delicate Balance (play)|A Delicate Balance]]*, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1997
* *[[The Lady in the Van]]*, Queen's Theatre, London, 1999
* *[[The Breath of Life (play)|The Breath of Life]]*, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2002
* *[[Talking Heads]]*, Australian tour, 2004
* *[[The Lady From Dubuque]]*, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2007

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