What happened to Maggie Smith?

Oh no!

Her passing will be hard to take, and I hope it's not anytime soon.

Its makeup for a tv role OP....besides, shes 86.

[quote]Oh no!

Maggie has so much "Downton Abbey" money, she's had all the latest treatments...

e.g. South American plastic surgeons, Swiss monkey glands, etc, etc,

hay fever

its for a role u dodo.......SHE IS ONE OF THE ALLTIME GREATS !!!!

The movie is "Stone Pillow II: Skid Row".

is that from Lady in a Van where she shits into paper bags?

MARY! me all you want, but I'll be gutted when Dame Maggie passes. On that note, Jean-Paul Belmondo's death a month ago made me realize all the beloved icons from the 1960s-1970s will be dropping like flies in the next decade.

Yeah tight OP, a woman who’s been rich as fuck since the 1960s is now living in a garage & wearing Carol Burnett’s charwoman character’s clothes.

I love her. (I don’t really know the difference between her and the characters she has played so well, so I just go on in the belief that I love her.)

Sick? She looks like she's been dead and crawled out of the grave six months later.

Glad to hear it's for a role.

she cleans up nicely, and hires some of the most expensive escorts in london ive heard...

She Got AIDS on the Harry Ptter set

r11, she stole Carol's clothes when she filmed this.

This better be for her new movie "Angry English Matriarch Gets Revenge".

Sad last days!

There are three posts here that demonstrate that unpleasant American habit of mocking the elderly with unfunny quips about sex.

Is this for "A German Life" where she plays Bronhilde Pomsel? I saw her perform it onstage 2 years ago and she was magnificent!

That play— well it's really a 100 minute monologue— sound very bleak but the NYT gave it a good review.

She's in makeup and costume for her 2015 film The Lady in the Van, about a homeless woman. Here's another photo of her in the same scene.

That’s Tracey Ullman.

This is not the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Brodie kept pulling her shit and was fired from every teaching job she got. That's how ended up living out of a van.

It's for a new Sondheim musical being filmed - Follies, the Reunion. She plays Phyllis at the 20 yr reunion dinner. Hilarity ensues.

[quote]its for a role u dodo.......SHE IS ONE OF THE ALLTIME GREATS !!!!

One of the all-time greats who can only play variations of the British grand dame and can't even muster a standard American accent, never mind any foreign accent.

R27 = Madam Streep, purveyor of 'foreign accents'

Because the standard of greatness is whether or not the actor can master an American accent. Fucking jingoist

Dame Maggie has done of characters besides "British Dame" and lots of accents. Whoever thinks she hasn't doesn't know much and should refrain from commenting.

I heard she played a homeless woman once.

Sorry to be a complete basic bitch, but to me she’s indelible as Minerva McG from Harry Potter, every bit as much as Alan Rickman as Snape. I’m hoping they do an HP prestige tv series at some point but no one else they cast could hold a candle to her.

She's just another gnarled oak tree being rolled into Cromwells for work. She'll walk out again a sapling.

She clearly didn't take the potion

Her son, Toby Stephens, was sexy in Black Sails.

If Maggie can't do the part, Ian McKellen can.

[quote]This is not the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Miss Jean Brodie is past her prime.

Jealous, bitches?

People say Julie can't do an American accent either but she has a perfect midwestern accent in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

[quote] rolled into Cromwells

I'm sure half of us don't know what that is, R33.

[quote]One of the all-time greats who can only play variations of the British grand dame and can't even muster a standard American accent, never mind any foreign accent.

I liked her as the lockjawed UES society matron in [italic]The First Wives Club.[/italic]

Me too (even if I don't know what a 'UES society' is)!

Upper East Side of Manhattan, where old society and new money live.

I guess the Gunilla Garson Goldberg character an example of old society as well as being Jewish (???) and Swedish (????).

I heard that in her will, she has had several people killed.

Copycat! ASSASSIN!!!

She and Jeremy Brett hated each other and I want to know why.

She should have had that third Oscar for Gosford Park. Compared with the competition she was leagues ahead.

[quote] Jeremy Brett

Did they perform together? Were they in a 'love triangle'?

No, R49, they didn't perform on screen together.

She’s like 200 yrs old give her a break

[quote] On that note, Jean-Paul Belmondo's death a month ago made me realize all the beloved icons from the 1960s-1970s will be dropping like flies in the next decade.

Yes, in the next 20 months.

In the documentary film "Tea with the Dames" all she did was crack jokes. She's funny as heck and has a very quick wit.

Glad to learn that she's doing a role and not on Hospice or something, OP.

LOL. She's British. They all age badly like that.

[quote] In the documentary film "Tea with the Dames".

Shot in one day with shaky hand-held camera and an off-screen lackadaisical interviewer.

Sad last days. Wow.

Again, OP's photo is from a film that came out in 2015.

I've read that Jeremy Britt had a difficult personality and many people found him hard to deal with. Some accounts say he may have been a deeply closeted, self loathing gay but I wouldn't know about that. Regardless, it's well known many people found him difficult.

He had a narrow range as an actor but within that range he could be superb. He is my favorite Sherlock Holmes and he has a lot of competition in that part.

This bitch has been ancient looking since the 70's.

Jeremy Brett had a sharp jawline but not as sharp as Dame Maggie's.

I saw her on stage as Millamant in The Way of the World back in the 80s. She was completely wonderful. The only time I've been in the theatre and the audience applauded a speech mi-scene like they would an aria in an opera (the 'dwindle into a wife' one).

She was amazing in "A German Life" in 2019 at The Bridge in London. She held everyone in awe

Maggie was at her best in Restoration Comedies.

She was a little much 'on the surface' for drama. She avoided Shakespeare for 40 years.

[quote]She avoided Shakespeare for 40 years.

She did the mid-1960s film version of Othello with Olivier which will probably never be seen again because Olivier is frequently in close up blacked up.

I've been going to the theater in New York for almost 50 years and one of my most treasured performances is Smith in Private Lives. And I do mean treasured.

Cancer?

That’s her after reading Defacto posts for one week on DL

But she's in her PRIME!

You have mentioned that four times already, R66. We have heard you and we chose not to respond.

Smith is epic, but her range is less than some of her peers, Dame Judi especially, who can do anything from the lightest of sitcoms to Lady Macbeth and Mother Courage. Actually it's Dench's range that is the unusual thing and most actors hover around a core of roles. Dame Maggie has comedy at the heart of her skillset, though she does pathos and tragicomedy (Lady in the Van) and she can do the unpleasant verging on villainous, if in a 'drawing room' context, as with Gosforth Park. However she does range across the whole history of English drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary.