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Dame Maggie Smith
Debut
Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) as Viola in Twelfth Night in 1952.
Theatre
For the Old Vic Theatre Company
- As You Like It
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Richard II
- What Every Woman Knows
For the National Theatre at the Old Vic (joined 1963) and the South Bank
- Othello (Desdemona, with Sir Laurence Olivier as Othello)
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Miss Julie
- The Recruiting Officer
- Hay Fever
- The Master Builder
- Black Comedy
- The Beaux' Stratagem
- The Three Sisters
- Hedda Gabler ("Evening Standard" Best Actress)
- Coming In To Land
In the West End
- Share My Lettuce
- Rhinoceros
- The Rehearsal
- The Private Ear and the Public Eye ("Evening Standard" Best Actress)
- Mary Mary (Variety Club Best Actress)
- Private Lives (Variety Club Best Actress)
- Peter Pan
- Night and Day
- Virginia ("Evening Standard" Best Actress)
- The Way of the World ("Evening Standard" Best Actress)
- Interpreters
- The Infernal Machine
- Lettice and Lovage (also on Broadway - Tony for Best Actress)
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Three Tall Women ("Evening Standard" Best Actress)
- Talking Heads (also at Chichester)
- A Delicate Balance
- The Lady in the Van
Stratford, Ontario (1976-1980)
- Antony and Cleopatra
- The Way of the World
- The Three Sisters
- The Guardsman
- As You Like It
- Macbeth
- Much Ado About Nothing
- The Seagull
- Virginia
Film
- Oh, What a Lovely War!
- Othello (Oscar nominated - Best Supporting Actress)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Oscar for Best Actress; Society of Film and Television Arts Best Actress)
- Death on the Nile
- Travels with my Aunt (Oscar nominated - Best Actress)
- California Suite (Oscar and Golden Globe)
- A Private Function (BAFTA, Golden Glove, Variety Club Award - Oscar nominated
- Room With a View (Oscar nominated)
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (BAFTA Award)
- Hook
- Sister Act
- The Secret Garden
- Richard III
- First Wives Club
- Washington Square
- Tea with Mussolini
- The Last September
Television
- Mrs Silly (Granada) (BAFTA Best Actress)
- Talking Heads: Bed Among the Lentils (BBC) (Royal Television Society Best Actress)
- Memento Mori (BBC)
- Suddenly Last Summer (BBC)
- All the King's Men (BBC)
- David Copperfield (BBC)
Special Awards
- Hamburg Shakespeare Prize (1991)
- Fellow of the British Theatre Institute
- Honorary D.Litt, Cambridge
- Honorary D.Litt, St Andrews
- Patron of the Jane Austen Society
- CBE
- DBE
Personal
- Born 1934
- Married the actor Robert Stephens - divorced
- Married playwright Beverley Cross (1975)
Please note: these credits are not complete.
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