Maggie Smith – a life in pictures

Dame Maggie Smith obituary

A distinguished, double Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter

Published: 27 Sep 2024

‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner

The stage and screen director, who filmed Smith in The Lady in the Van, recalls her unblinking wit at work on stage in A German Life

Published: 27 Sep 2024

Mike Newell on Maggie Smith: ‘She never bit me, but if she did bite, you stayed bitten’

Director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire says formidable actor brought many things to a set, including ‘terror’Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

Published: 27 Sep 2024

Share your tributes and memories of Maggie Smith

We would like to hear your memories of Maggie Smith – whether you met her, or appreciated her work as an actor

Published: 27 Sep 2024