From: mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   Dame Maggie Smith, the great award-winning actress, whose work ranged   
   from Downton Abbey to Harry Potter, has died aged 89..   
      
   Dame Maggie died in hospital on Friday 27 September, 2024, her sons   
   Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens said in a statement.   
      
   ‘It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie   
   Smith,’ they said.   
      
   ‘She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th   
   September.   
      
   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).[6] 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).   
      
   https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/27/dame-maggie-smith-dies-aged-89-21   
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   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. Maggie Smith   
   was appointed DBE in 1990.   
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