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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (December 28, 1934 − September 27, 2024) was a British actress. Known for her wit in comedic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses. She received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for six Laurence Olivier Awards. Smith was one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting. Smith began her stage career as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. Over the following decades Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, she received Tony Award nominations for Noël Coward's Private Lives (1975) and Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979), and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990). She won Academy Awards for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She was Oscar-nominated for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She portrayed Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). She also acted in Death on the Nile (1978), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Quartet (2012) and The Lady in the Van (2015). Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The role earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards; she had previously won one for the HBO film My House in Umbria (2003). Over the course of her career she was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1993, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996 and the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. Smith was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Maggie Smith
Minerva McGonagall
for Minerva McGonagall in James Potter and the Memory Diamond
Suggested by cartoonman8748
It's James Sirius Potter and his siblings and cousins 1st year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WIzardry and their parents and relatives, Harry and Ginny Potter, Ron and Hermione Granger Weasley, George and Angelina Weasley, Bill and Fleur Weasley and Percy and Audrey Weasley are working for the Daily Prophet and the Ministry of Magic. Things have changed so far: Fluffy's released in the Forbidden Forest, Draco Malfoy's wife, Astoria Malfoy had been killed by new Death Eaters, Minerva McGonagall is the new Hogwarts headmistress, Neville Longbottom is the new Herbology teacher, Luna Longbottom is the new matriach, Harold Alcurn is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Susan Bones is the new Flying Lessons Instructor, Michael Corner is the new Muggle Studies Teacher, Zacharias Smith is the new Charms teacher, Ernest MacMillian is the new Potions teacher and Roger Davies is the new Transfiguration teacher, but Lily Potter I, James Potter I, Cedric Diggory, Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, Fred Weasley I, Remus Lupin, Mad Eye Moody and Nymphadora Tonks are now ghost figures just like Sir Nicholas, Moaning Myrtle and the Bloody Baron. Then 1 dark and creepy evening, a new evil wizard named Lord Keeling and an evil witch lady named Lady Delphini have arrived in the shadows of darkness and a new set of Death Eaters and Dementors and other evil critters have appeared as well. James must go on a mission quest to find the memory diamond.
