Oscar-winning artist Dame Maggie Smith, most popular in recent years for her functions in the Harry Potter , and Downton Abbey set, has passed away at age 89.
The Post Millennial reported that the multi-award-winning British artist died Friday, citing a speech from Smith’s children. Maggie Smith was an excellent artist whose work did long remain remembered, both on stage and panel, from Shakespearean plays to favorite fantasy films, both in her youth and old age.
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” She passed away peacefully in medical early this morning, Friday 27th September”, Smith’s children Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens said. She was with friends and family at the end, and she was a very personal man. She leaves a remarkable mother and grandmother behind, leaving them with two sons and five caring children.
The sons ‘ speech continued,” We would like to take this opportunity to thank the great staff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for her care and unfailing kindness during her last days.” We appreciate your kindness and help, and we ask that you keep your private a priority at this time.
Smith won numerous awards during her long career, including two Academy Awards, in 1970 for” The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and again in 1979 for” California Suite”. She even won three Golden Globes, four Emmy Honors, some BAFTA Awards, and many Screen Actors Guild Awards, among others. Additionally, she received many awards nominations, including an Oscar nomination for her role in Laurence Olivier’s 1965 film” Othello.”  ,
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It is amazing that so many of her awards were presented as Smith grew older, at a time when many women saw their actors decline rather than rise.
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One of the Greats has left.
RIP Dame Maggie Smith image. twitter.com/qeTAYNkQJx
— Sebastian Gorka DrG ( @SebGorka ) September 27, 2024
Smith delighted new decades as the unceasing witty Hogwarts doctor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies years into her brilliant job. As McGonagall, Smith was a main protagonist throughout all eight pictures, delivering an classic and memorable performance.  ,
Harry Potter writer JK Rowling tweeted,” Apparently I thought she’d live long. RIP Dame Maggie Smith”. In Downton Abbey, Smith even portrayed the Lady of Grantham, a slave.  ,
On X: On the road, writer and advertising personality Raymond Arroyo praised Smith.
RIP to Maggie Smith, a beautiful woman. She stole every field in any video she inhabited. But she was a force of nature on level. I saw her in Lettice and Lovage repeatedly- and eventually on the West End. She was a large. Watch. photograph. twitter.com/efRLYt8Dpl— Raymond Arroyo ( @RaymondArroyo ) September 27, 2024
Author and producer Piers Morgan paid gift, composing,” RIP Dame Maggie Smith. Beautiful actress, magnificent woman. As entertaining, sharp, and witty off screen as she was ]on ] it. A really very sad damage for Britain”. Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who co-starred with Smith in David Copperfield and Harry Potter.
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said, “The word legend is overused but if it applies to anyone in our industry then it applies to her.”I personally also loved her performance in the 1976 comedic movie “Murder by Death,” where she played a spoof role based on the classic mystery character Nora Charles.
In , comedies and tragedies, in plays and poems, Maggie Smith’s speaking was often amazing. To a real historical image, rest in peace.
