Maggie Smith
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 Maggie Smith facts

• She has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film and television spanning over sixty years
• Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses
• A prominent figure in British culture for six decades, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for services to the performing arts, and received the Companion of Honour from the Queen in 2014 for services to drama
• Smith began her career on stage at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952 and made her Broadway debut in New Faces of '56
• For her work on the London stage, she has won a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards; for The Private Ear and The Public Eye (1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984) and Three Tall Women (1994)
• She a received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage
• Other stage roles include Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony And Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002)
• On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first BAFTA Award nomination
• She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978)
• She is one of only six actresses to have won in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories