THE PRIME OF MISS MAGGIE SMITH MAY STILL BE IN THE WINGS. And perfectionist Maggie would rather let critics pinpoint its entrance. Plucked from a group of performers in the National Theater of Great ...

A talent like the venerated Dame Maggie Smith is rare to come across, and it’s rarer to be able to see such craft carried out over the span of decades. An award-winning powerhouse of talent, she was ...

Dame Maggie Smith, the British actress who won Oscars, Emmys and a Tony in a career spanning seven decades, has died at age 89. Smith began her career playing wistful ingenues in Shakespeare. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over her six-decade career, Dame Maggie Smith brought corrosive wit and unimpeachable gravitas to everything she did. But there was so much more to the two-time Oscar winner, who was best known in her ...