A long time ago my older daughter told me, "When I grow up I want to be like Maggie Smith."
The famous actress Maggie Smith was born on December 28, 1934. Her life story hides ups and downs, and in her biography she recorded a turbulent love life.
Despite her grandmother's advice to learn blind typing, because she is not beautiful enough to be an actress, Maggie Smith has a 60-year acting career.
She made her Broadway debut at the age of twenty-one, and soon received an invitation from Lawrence Olivier to join the British National Theater.
She became world famous after she played the main role of Jean Brody in the film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", which won her the Oscar for Best Actress in 1969. In total, she won two Oscars, three Emmys and one Tony Award
Her private life was no less turbulent.
Maggie Smith first met her second husband, Beverly Cross, with whom she was married for 23 years until his death (Cross died of a heart attack in 1998). Although he was already married, he proposed to her and she agreed to wait for him. However, while she was waiting for Cross to divorce, Smith met Robert Stephenson.
She married Stephenson ten days after the birth of their first son, Chris Larkin. The couple had another son, Toby Stephenson.
After seven years of marriage, in 1973, they divorced and Maggie married Beverly two years later.
Maggie Smith says that she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and that they are wonderful
A few years ago, she stated that she was still struggling to come to terms with her husband's death, saying: "Everyone says it will be easier for you in time, but I don't think so. It will just be different. "
"Judy Campbell once told me a wonderful thing when her husband died, it's a strange feeling that you are no longer in the first place," added Smith.
The decoration is a veteran of the British theater, which we can currently see in the role of the Countess of Grantham in the BBC series "Downton Abbey", awarded for six decades of acting.
Among the earlier winners of this award, established in 1917 and limited to 65 living prominent personalities, are physicist Stephen Hawking, actor Ian McKellen and artist David Hockney, writes Nadlan.
According to the AP, the 79-year-old actress has won two Oscars: for the best female role in the film "The Best Years of Miss Gene Brody" and the best supporting role in the drama "California Apartment".
The most famous films in which she played are "Othello", "Room with a View", "Travels with My Aunt" and "Gosford Park", and the younger generation remembers her best for the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series.
She had an equally successful career as a television actress. She played notable and praised roles in the TV series "Suddenly, Last Summer", "David Copperfield", "My House in Umbria", "The Persecution of Mary".
For her role in "Downton Abbey", she was awarded an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries in 2011 and 2012.
Maggie Smith has been nominated for six Oscars. She has won a BAFTA award five times, has three Emmys and three Golden Globes, and is rightly considered one of the best and most respected actresses in the world. He is currently shooting the film "The Lady in the Van" in which he reprises the role of an eccentric homeless woman in the play of the same name by Alain Bennett.
A solemn Bafta awards ceremony was held in London a few years ago. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the big winners of the evening, as he went home with the recognition for the best actor. The moody star, to whom the long-awaited Oscar smiles, was the main star of the evening also because of the sympathetic kiss with Maggie Smith.
Considering that the ceremony was held on Valentine's Day, everything was in the sign of love, so one segment was designated for the "kiss camera". So, whoever was in the frame of this romantic camera, had to kiss. DiCaprio enthusiastically accepted this task when he found himself in the frame with 40-year-old Maggie Smith.
Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Ilford, Essex, England, to Margaret (Hutton) and Nathaniel Smith. When she was 4 years old, her family moved to Oxford, where her father worked as a pathologist at Oxford University.
After graduating from high school, Smith attended the Oxford Playhouse School from 1951 to 1953. She made her professional stage début in 1952, playing Viola in an Oxford University Dramatics Society production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.