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London: British actress Maggie Smith, an award winning Shakespearian actress and double Oscar winner who later appeared in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 89, the BBC reported on Friday.<\/p>\n
One of the few actors to win the treble of an Oscar (two), Emmy (four), and Tony, Smith\u2019s long career started on the stage in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
But for many younger fans in the 21st century, she was best-known as Professor McGonagall in all seven \u201cHarry Potter\u201d movies, and the Dowager Countess in the hit TV series and movie spin-offs of \u201cDownton Abbey,\u201d a role that seemed tailor-made for an actress known for purse-lipped asides and malicious cracks.<\/p>\n
Her first Academy Award nomination was for her turn playing Desdemona opposite Laurence Olivier\u2019s \u201cOthello\u201d in 1965, before winning the Oscar for her role as an Edinburgh schoolmistress in 1969\u2019s \u201c\u201dThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.\u201d<\/p>\n
She won her second Oscar for her supporting role in the 1978 comedy \u201c\u201dCalifornia Suite,\u201d a performance that prompted co-star Michael Caine to say: \u201c\u201dMaggie didn\u2019t just steal the film, she committed grand larceny.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other critically acclaimed roles included Lady Bracknell in Wilde\u2019s \u201c\u201dThe Importance of Being Earnest\u201d on the West End stage, a 92-year-old bitterly fighting senility in Edward Albee\u2019s play \u201c\u201dThree Tall Women,\u201d and her part in 2001 black comedy movie \u201cGosford Park.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1990 Smith was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and became a Dame.<\/p>\n
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