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Elle était déjà l’un des visages les plus connus du théâtre et du cinéma britannique avant de devenir une actrice d’envergure internationale avec ses rôles dans «Harry Potter» et «Downton Abbey». Elle est morte vendredi à 89 ans. 28 Sep 2024 - Libération Par Juliette Démas - Correspondante à Londres C’est un ton inimitable, qui sort d’une bouche pincée, ne découvrant que les dents du bas. Un mélange d’humour et d’autodépréciation acide, coulé du bout des lèvres – la quintessence de l’intraduisible britishness. Maggie Smith est au cinéma britannique ce que la sauce à la menthe est au gigot d’agneau outre-Manche: incontournable, relevée, et un peu étonnante pour les novices. «Quelqu’un a dit un jour […] qu’elle soupirait avec l’air de quelqu’un dont le pied vient de rencontrer, à nouveau, une peau de banane», écrivait en 1969 une journaliste du Guardian à son sujet. Dame Maggie s’apprête alors à recevoir l’oscar de la meilleure actrice pour les Belles Années de Miss Brodie, film dans leq...

(AP) Actor Maggie Smith was most famous for her roles in the Harry Potter films and TV series ‘Downton Abbey’ The celebrated actor Maggie Smith, who won two Oscars and seven Baftas, has died aged 89. The star of stage and screen, known for her prominent roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, as well as her performance in The Prime of Miss Jean 28 Sep 2024 - The Independent JOE SOMMERLAD Brodie, died in hospital yesterday morning, her sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens said. Stephens and Larkin said in a statement: “It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith. She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end. She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother.” In a stellar career spanning 60 years she won two Oscars : for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1970 and California Suite in 1979. Smith...

Pictures: GETTY/ITV/ALAMY/ZUMA -  Class act: Maggie Smith in 1975 and,  from top,  in Downton Abbey, as Jean Brodie and in the Harry Potter films ...and even became a fashion model aged 88 28 Sep 2024 - Daily Mail By Michael Thornton IF THERE had been a competition for scene-stealing among Britain’s great actresses, it’s odds-on that Dame Maggie Smith, who died yesterday at the age of 89, would have won it hands down. She was still in her twenties when she had a scene with Richard Burton in Terence Rattigan’s comedy-drama The VIPs . She upstaged the Welsh Wizard to such an extent that he later admitted it was tantamount to committing ‘grand larceny’. More than half a century later, in her eighties, she was still stealing scenes as the indomitable and Machiavellian Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the phenomenally successful Downton Abbey . Her glittering 72-year career spanned 63 films, 78 stage roles, and 88 television appearances . In the process, she w...

Michael Billington Michael Billington is the Guardian’s former theatre critic Gareth Neame is an executive producer of Downton Abbey 28 Sep 2024 - The Guardian Maggie Smith was an actor of legendary wit and style who, even off stage, seemed to have the capacity to deliver a one-line zinger . There’s a lovely moment in Roger Michell’s TV film Nothing Like a Dame in which the assembled quartet (including Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins ) are asked to talk about the difficulty of living with a title . Joan Plowright says it’s worse for her because she not only has the handle of a dame but that of a lady through her marriage to Laurence Olivier . With exquisite timing and hitting the perfect verb, Smith looks at her old friend and says: “Joan, darling, you’ll just have to grapple with it.” Smith’s achievements on stage and screen are well documented, but I was lucky to witness a less well-known side of her work: her seasons at the Festival theatre in Stratford, Ontario, from 1976 to 1980 . S...

In scena - A teatro nel 2019 uno strepitoso  monologo nei panni della segretaria di Goebbels La celebre attrice inglese è morta ieri a Londra L’annuncio dei due figli e dei cinque nipoti Maggie Smith, da Shakespeare a «Harry Potter» Due Oscar, fu la matriarca di «Downton Abbey» 28 Sep 2024 - Corriere della Sera di Maurizio Porro © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA Due amorevoli figli e cinque nipoti hanno annunciato ieri la morte dell’adorata mamma e nonna, dame Margaret Natalie Smith, a 89 anni, l’attrice inglese più famosa, nata a Ilford il 28 dicembre 1934 . Aveva iniziato col varietà, poi finì coccolata nelle braccia di Shakespeare, tantissimo teatro, ma è ricordata, amata e da ora rimpianta come la prof. Mcgranitt di Harry Potter e come Violet Crawley, matriarca inglese, nelle sei stagioni di «Downton Abbey». Smith vinse due Oscar: nel 1970 per La strana voglia di Jean (nel 1932 una professoressa dalle nefaste influenze), nel 1979 come nevrotica nel classico Neil Simon di California Su...