I will add "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" to another good movie she was in, along with an excellent cast.
Maggie Smith has died
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#42The only person in history to win an Oscar while portraying an Oscar nominee. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...>
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#43Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery were brilliant in Downton Abbey. Their characters always seemed two to three steps ahead of everyone with their wit. And were hilarious to boot. Robert Crawley was nominally in charge of everything. But it was clear that Violet and Mary were pulling all the strings through their understanding of how the social contracts really worked. And it was fitting that in the finale Violet hand…
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#44Maggie Smith's character in both Abbey and HP brooked no BS. We're reaching the time now when more of the Harry Potter teachers are leaving this world, I am not looking forward to the students.
This is a striking and sobering comment, sauceymew.
We’ll be lucky to live that long, and sorry to see them fall.
(Edit: s/fail/fall)
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#45The Lady in the Van cuts a lot of onion for me. RIP.
I was fortunate enough to see her in that on stage. She and Nick Farrell were on top form. It's a highlight.
I shed real tears when I saw that she had passed. The other week, with James Earl Jones, as well. We're losing a generation of actors with real, deep roots in theatre, who then adapted to TV and cinema as those media matured. They're a bridge generation, and their experience will not be replicated. The profession and the culture are the poorer for their loss.