The prime of miss jean brodie6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Smith is among the world's most distinguished and famous actresses and continues to be active on screen and on stage. Some of Smith's other accolades include a Golden Globe Award, several Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. ![]() ![]() She is known to many as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series and also starred as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey. Smith is one of only six actresses to have won an Academy Award in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories. This is a production of the play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (by Jay Presson Allen and Muriel Spark) by Donald Albery for Calabash Productions Ltd. On screen, Smith gained first recognition in the film Nowhere to Go (1958). ![]() Smith won her first of five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards in 1962 becoming a fixture in the Royal National Theatre. Her first film debut was in 1956 (uncredited) and she made her Broadway debut the same year. Smith left school at the age of sixteen to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse and would begin her career at Oxford Playhouse as Viola in a production of Twelfth Night. Smith has over fifty films to her name, and she is one of Britain's most recognizable actresses. Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (1934-present) is an English actress with a varied career in stage, film and television. ![]()
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