Maggie Smith has made a big impact in film, appearing in some of the best movies over the decades, including Gosford Park and ...

It was a talent that led her to two of her most famous roles created by Yorkshire writers: the stern housekeeper Mrs Medlock in the 1993 adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden ...

The Secret Garden Maggie Smith played lots of lovably stern, upper-crust guardians in her time, but '90s kids may remember when she was the less-than-lovable, stern, upper-crust guardian, Mrs ...

Maggie Smith Downton Abbey© ITV The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Maggie Smith© 20th Century Fox The Secret Garden Maggie Smith© Warner Bros Richard III Ian McKellen Maggie Smith© United Artists ...

Consider just one scene in Robert Altman's crime-fiction masterpiece Gosford Park (2001) in which Smith and a suite of veteran British actors playing the upper crust of 1930s English society dine ...

Dame Maggie Smith arrives at the world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in London in 2005. Dave Hogan via Getty Images The incomparable Dame Maggie Smith, known for her myriad ...