Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie "Maggie" Smith, CH, DBE is an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film and television spanning over sixty years. Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empirein 1970. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empirein the 1990 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts, and Member...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 December 1934
CityIlford, England
Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.
I just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman.
Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.
There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.
I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.