Maggie Smith had the most expressive face. She could say and do more with a roll of an eye or a purse of her lips than most of her peers can with pages of dialogue. She could convey a world of ...

“I cannot accept ‘merely.’ I do not do anything ‘merely,’” says Lettice Douffet, a tour guide to a stately English home with an epic history of dullness in Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play “Lettice and ...

Smith, who died Sept. 27, was best known to American audiences for her roles in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey. She won two Academy Awards in a career that spanned nearly seven decades. This ...

As we approach the end of another year, The Independent is reflecting on some of the famous faces we lost in 2024. Over the past 12 months, the world said goodbye to a number of cultural icons, ...

Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Michael Gambon will forever be linked by more than just their work on the “Harry Potter” movies. Perhaps best known in recent years for their portrayals of Professor Minerva ...

The actress Maggie Smith wore lightly the burdensome role of being a national treasure. She had become the go-to period dowager, able to convey class and skewering wit with pinpoint accuracy. A great ...

Actors, collaborators and fans who worked with Maggie Smith are paying tribute to the award-winning actor, known for her roles in the "Harry Potter" movies and "Downton Abbey." She died Friday at 89. ...

Retirement is not the end: that is the message at the heart of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a light-hearted, escapist film about a group of Britons who leave England behind to settle in a hotel in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dame Maggie Smith played strict deputy headmistress Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter series of films Dame Maggie Smith left ...

In 2011, a New York bartender paid tribute to the actor with a sly tweak to a pre-Prohibition cocktail. By Pete Wells The most intense pleasures of a Maggie Smith performance were seldom caused by ...

Artist James Lloyd has captured the likenesses of some of the most famous British public figures in recent memory, from fashion icon Paul Smith to Queen Elizabeth. But when it came to painting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we approach the end of another year, The Independent is reflecting on some of the famous faces we lost in 2024. Over the past ...