Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Michael Gambon will forever be linked by more than just their work on the “Harry Potter” movies. Perhaps best known in recent years for their portrayals of Professor Minerva ...

“I cannot accept ‘merely.’ I do not do anything ‘merely,’” says Lettice Douffet, a tour guide to a stately English home with an epic history of dullness in Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play “Lettice and ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Maggie Smith, the renowned British actress best known to American audiences for her roles in the "Harry Potter" films and the masterpiece series "Downton Abbey," ...

Bafta viewers were left upset after veteran actor Dame Maggie Smith appeared to have been “snubbed” from the TV Awards’ In Memoriam segment on Sunday (11 May). Actors who are more closely associated ...

Maggie Smith appears at the premiere of the film “The Lady In The Van”, during the London film festival in London on Oct. 13, 2015. Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 ...

Dame Maggie Smith was laid to rest in an intimate funeral service on Monday. Smith died at 89 on Sept. 27. According to the Daily Mail, on Nov. 4, the legendary actress’s life was celebrated at ...

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Celebrate the late, great doyenne of stage and screen with these films, many of which you can watch for free You’ve seen Dame Maggie Smith in every iteration of “Downton Abbey” and “Harry Potter.” Now ...

Elizabeth McGovern did not set out to become a playwright, but rather became a playwright out of necessity. She's currently starring in Ava: The Secret Conversations, a play she wrote herself, at New ...

Smith, who died Sept. 27, was best known to American audiences for her roles in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey. She won two Academy Awards in a career that spanned nearly seven decades. This ...