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[R.I.P.] Dame Maggie Smith, "Harry Potter" and "Downton Abbey" actress, has died at 89

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Loved her in all her roles but especially in Downton Abby. ...RIP
 
Totally forgot she was in Clash of the Titans. I remember her best from Downton Abbey, much less so from Harry Potter. I still haven't seen all of those films.
 
She and Judi Dench are two of my favorite actors.
 
Her Broadway debut was in 1956 playing Viola in Twelfth Night.Her last stage credit was 63 years later in London in 2019 in a one woman play about a NAZI secretary to Joseph Goebbels to critical acclaim and a sixth best actress Evening Standard award. In cinema was first nominated in Othello in 1965. she last starred in a 2023 film "The Miracle Club' 58 years later. The accolades are virtually endless for Dame Maggie Smith.

From Wiki: She received numerous accodades including two oscars, five BAFTA awards, four Emmies, three Golden Globes and a Tony as well as nominations for six Laurence Olivier awards Smith was one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting

On Broadway, she received tony nominations for Noel Cowards's Private Lives (1975) and Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979), and won the Best Actress Tony for Lettice and Lovage

She won Oscars for Best Actress for Prime of Miss Jane Brodie (1969) and Best supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She was Oscar-nominated for otheloo (1965), Travels with Aunt May (1972), A Room w/ a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001).

as Violet Crowley in Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The role earned her three Emmy Awards; she had previously won one for the HBO film My House from Umbria (2003).] Over the course of her career she was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the British Film Institute in 1993, the BAFTA fellowship in 1996 and the Society of London theatre award in 2010. Smith was made a Dame byQueen Elizabeth in 1990.

If I list just her major credits, I will never get this post inside word limits

I know this is a lot of words here, but how does one condense a career like this and do it any justice at all?
 
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Rest peacefully, condolences to her family and friends.


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RIP Maggie Smith
 
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