The British actor Dame Maggie Smith died at age 89, her family confirmed. The actor had a storied career on both stage and screen, winning Tony, Emmy, and Oscar awards. Smith was well known for roles ...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of ...

The Oscar-winning costumier Jenny Beavan on Maggie Smith’s hangovers, Ralph Fiennes’s high standards and meeting stars naked ...

The first time I saw Maggie Smith on screen it was not in one of her acclaimed roles as Charlotte Bartlett in “A Room With a View,” nor in her Oscar-winning turns in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” or ...

Dame Maggie Smith’s First Wives Club co-star Bronson Pinchot good-naturedly recalled to People an incident in which the Oscar-winning actor “crisply whacked” him over the head for complimenting one of ...

While the veteran British stage and screen actress became best known for her long-running roles in Harry Potter and 'Downton Abbey,' many of us fell under her spell decades earlier. By David Rooney ...

The late Dame Maggie Smith is one of the most distinguished of all time. With two Oscar wins and her fan-favorite role as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series, she starred in ...

Downton Abbey 3 will pay homage to the “end of an era” with the loss of the Dowager Countess, which has now taken on greater significance following the death of Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith, ...

Artist James Lloyd has captured the likenesses of some of the most famous British public figures in recent memory, from fashion icon Paul Smith to Queen Elizabeth. But when it came to painting the ...