Maggie Smith in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
The following year, Smith played Desdemona in Olivier's "Othello."
Smith played a celebrated British actor reckoning with her complex marriage to a closeted gay man played by Michael Caine.
She was also regularly recognized by the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
When the British newspaper The Telegraph asked Smith why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension."
Persons:
Maggie Smith, Oscar, McGonagall, Harry Potter, Dowager, Smith's, Chris Larkin, Toby Stephens, Dame Maggie Smith, Prince, Everett, Larkin, Stephens, Smith, Miss Jean Brodie, Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess Grantham, Nick Briggs, Tony, Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Natalie Smith, Shakespeare’s, Laurence Olivier, Desdemona, Olivier's, Ronald Neame, Vincent Canby, Jean Brodie, Neil Simon, Michael Caine, Rowling's Harry Potter, Minerva McGonagall, Nobody
Organizations:
Warner Bros, PBS, Oxford Playhouse School, Britain's, Evening, New York Times, British Academy, Golden Globes, Screen, British, The Telegraph, Focus, NBC
Locations:
Downton, Lovage, Essex, England, U.S, London, Edinburgh, California, Los Angeles, British, Gosford