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	Maggie Smith Biography
		Maggie's recognised "serious" stage debut came when she performed in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's Twelfth Night in 1952, but she had already appeared in the Chegwell Players' Children In Uniform, and The Pick-Up Girl at the Playhouse.
		It's proof of Smith's all-round schooling in entertainment that, when she appeared in the New Faces '56 Revue at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway (the latest in a series of showcases organised by former actor Leonard Sillman between 1934 and 1968), she was billed as "a singing-comedienne".
		Smith was in torment, seen to be "all tics and nervous affectations".
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/maggie_smith_biog.html (2567 words)

	Maggie Smith - MSN Encarta
		Margaret Natalie Smith was born in Ilford, Essex.
		Smith has an incredible stage presence, classical poise, and impeccable comic timing, all of which have led her to critical success in countless comedy performances in London and New York, including Amanda in Private Lives (1972) and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1992), two roles she virtually reinvented.
		Smith’s repertoire has also extended to classical theater, including Desdemona to the Othello played by Sir Laurence Olivier (1965).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580135/Maggie_Smith.html (225 words)

	Maggie Smith - Biography - Moviefone
		Four years later she was on Broadway, performing comedy routines in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1956; that same year, she made her first, extremely brief screen appearance in Child in the House (she usually refers to 1959's Nowhere to Go as her screen debut).
		In addition, Smith has won Oscars for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978), and British Film Academy awards for A Private Function (1985), A Room With a View (1986), and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987).
		These accolades notwithstanding, Smith has had no qualms about accepting such "lightweight" roles as lady sleuth Dora Charleston (a delicious Myrna Loy takeoff) in Murder By Death (1976), the aging Wendy in Steven Spielberg's Peter Pan derivation Hook (1991), and the Mother Superior in Whoopi Goldberg's Sister Act films of the early '90s.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/maggie-smith/66495/biography (380 words)

	Maggie Smith - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Your first encounter with Smith may have been in one of the all-star, lushly dressed mysteries she flits through, "Death on the Nile" and "Evil Under the Sun," where she elevates Agatha Christie to the high-comedy plane.
		Smith first appeared onstage as Viola in "Twelfth Night" in 1952, but her professional career began with a Broadway revue called "New Faces of 1956," and she appeared in her first movie, a forgotten noir called "Nowhere to Go," in 1958.
		You'd read about Maggie Smith as Beatrice or Masha or Miss Julie; in Ingmar Bergman's fl-and-scarlet-toned "Hedda Gabler" ("There is a dry bitterness, a kind of ad humor, to her portrayal that...
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/06/smith/index.html (698 words)

	Harry Potter \| Daily Prophet \| Smith
		Dame Maggie Smith is quite simply one of the world's greatest stage and screen actresses revered both by her peers and the public alike and the recepient of countless awards, including two Academy Awards, the CBE and the DBE.
		Smith first appeared on stage with the Oxford University Drama Society in 1952 and then made her professional debut in New York in The New Faces 1956 Revue.
		In 1970 Smith received a CBE and in 1990 she became Dame Maggie Smith when she received the DBS.
	harrypotter.warnerbros.com /bios/smith_full.html (567 words)

	Maggie Smith Biography
		Smith’s family moved to Oxford in 1939, where from 1947 she attended the Oxford High School for Girls.
		Maggie Smith made her credited film debut in Ealing thriller Nowhere to Go (1958), this was followed by such films as The VIPs (1963), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), and an Oscar-winning performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
		During the 1970’s Smith accepted roles in frivolous sleuthing films, Dora Charleston, the wife of David Niven in the droll Murder by Death (1976), and two all-star Agatha Christie whodunits, Death on the Nile (1978), and Evil Under the Sun (1982).
	www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/s/005.html (291 words)

	Any Old Actress // Mariel's Favorite Actresses [Maggie Smith]
		I was hooked on Maggie Smith from the moment I saw her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
		Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Gosford Park.
		Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon work together again in The Last September.
	www.anyoldactress.com /maggiesmith.html (335 words)

	Maggie Smith Photos - Maggie Smith News - Maggie Smith Information
		Maggie Smith: I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent moods swings and indiscriminate sexual activity and I thought 'that about covers it really'.
		Maggie Smith: I longed to be bright and most certainly never was.
		Maggie Smith: The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
	www.tv.com /maggie-smith/person/149516/summary.html (351 words)

	Richard III Society--McKellen Shakespeare Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maggie Smith won an Academy Award and a Society of Film and Television Arts Award as Best Actress for her performance in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE and an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress for CALIFORNIA SUITE.
		Maggie Smith made her first appearance on stage with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1952 as Viola in TWELFTH NIGHT, but her professional debut was on Broadway in NEW FACES OF 1956 REVUE.
		Maggie Smith was awarded the CBE in 1970 and in 1989 she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
	www.r3.org /mckellen/film/smith1.html (590 words)

	Maggie Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award-winning English film, stage, and television actress.
		Smith was born in Ilford, then in the county of Essex but now part of the London borough of Redbridge, to Nathaniel Smith, who worked at Oxford University, and Margaret Hutton Little, who was Scottish; she has two older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian.
		She has the ability to project a quality of deep emotion (whether comic or tragic) balanced by an innate reserve that combines the appearance of steely control and a hint of something approaching hysteria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maggie_Smith (704 words)

	Dame Maggie Smith Fanpages - Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Smith is always poised somewhere between laughter and tears.
		Primarily a stage actress, Maggie Smith made an early mark in reviews by singing and dancing.
		Although many of her film performances are supporting roles, Smith bleeds them for all they are worth.
	www.damemaggiesmith.com /profile.html (517 words)

	Maggie Smith -- The Grand Dame
		Her parents were Nathaniel Smith (pathologist, from Newcastle) and Margaret Hutton Little (from Glasgow) and she has two twin brothers Ian and Alastair.
		The sixties for Maggie proved to be tumultuous as she had an affair with the still-married co-actor, Robert Shaffer, who co-starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
		Maggie was a natural with her British background to play in such Shakespeare movies as Much Ado About Nothing (1967), The Merchant of Venice (1972) and Richard III (1995).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3628/96601 (492 words)

	Salon.com people \| Maggie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Smith is notoriously shy; she has given few interviews.
		Smith gets at this subject matter -- the ragged efforts of the disenfranchised to maintain not just dignity but some vestige of style -- from both ends of the tonal spectrum, high comic and tragic.
		At 65, Smith shows no indication of slowing down, and she still possesses the quality Kerr seized on 30 years ago when he wrote, "Miss Smith is what is meant by an alternating current."
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/06/smith/index2.html (862 words)

	Maggie Smith @ Filmbug UK
		DAME Maggie Smith is quite simply one of the world's greatest stage and screen actresses, revered both by her peers and the public alike and the recipient of countless awards, including two Academy Awards, the CBE and the DBE.
		Smith joined The National Theatre in 1963 playing Desdemona opposite Laurence Olivier's Othello and went on to further success in Black Comedy, Miss Julie, The Country Wife, The Beaux Strategm and Much Ado About Nothing.
		But, it was in 1969 and her portrayal in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie which catapulted her into the public eye and won her an Academy Award and the Society of Film and TV Arts Best Actress Award.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/67764 (636 words)

	Maggie Smith Collection
		Smith had already donated photocopies of material she had used in preparing her article, "The Nicks and Gibson Papers and Lovely County" (Benton County Pioneer, vol.
		He apparently gave some of them to Maggie Smith (she in turn donated them to Special Collections).
		At the request of Maggie Smith, copies of these papers were given to Dr. Walter A. Brown for the Arkansas Historical Quarterly files, and were deposited by Dr. Brown in Special Collections.
	libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/findingaids/maggiesmith.html (1477 words)

	Veritaserum \| Actors \| Maggie Smith/Professor McGonagall - Pictures, Information, Biography, Quotes
		In 1967, Maggie married a fellow actor, Robert Stephens(1931-1995) and a son was born later that year.
		Maybe that son was good luck, because the next year, Maggie recieved her first Academy Award for the film," The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." Tragedy hits the family when in 1975, Maggie divorces Robert, and happiness is restored when, later that year, she married the playwright, Beverly Cross(1931-1998).
		In 1990, Maggie recieved her DBE (equivalent of Knighthood) for accomplishments in theatre and film.
	www.veritaserum.com /movies/actors/maggiesmith.shtml (658 words)

	Maggie Smith
		Maggie was married to Beverly Cross until his death in 1998.
		Maggie went to the Oxford High School for Girls until she was 16, then she left school early to study at the Oxford Playhouse School.
		Maggie won her first Oscar for her performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1968.
	www.videoeta.com /person/899 (164 words)

	Dame Maggie Smith Fanpages - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The story is about two spinster sisters who find and care for a young Polish violinist washed on shore after a storm.
		This is the third time Maggie and Judi have starred in a film together.
		Maggie stars with Timothy Spall, Giancarlo Giannini, and Chris Cooper.
	www.damemaggiesmith.com (140 words)

	Maggie Smith
		Stage and screen actress Maggie Smith was born in Essex, England, but moved with her family, including twin older brothers, to Oxford when she was five.
		In 1989 Smith was knighted by the British Crown as a token of appreciation and respect for her prodigious dramatic accomplishments.
		Back in film she also contributed dour turns as the Mother Superior in the immensely popular comedy Sister Act (1992), the aged Wendy in the Peter Pan update, Hook (1991), the intimidating housekeeper of The Secret Garden (1993), and appeared in the all-star film version of Richard III as the Duchess of York in 1995.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3122 (527 words)

	Amazon.com: Gosford Park: DVD: Maggie Smith,Michael Gambon,Kristin Scott Thomas,Camilla Rutherford,Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among many fine performances is Maggie Smith, a dagger tongued elderly harpy who can be heard in almost any scene languidly complaining about everything.
		Maggie Smith is outstanding in the role of Constance Trentham, a snobby, self-absorbed, old biddy in need of money, so that she can continue the lifestyle to which she is accustomed.
		The hilariously waspish Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), who believes she has a lifetime stipend, arrives with young Mary Maceachran (Kelly MacDonald), who is trying valiantly to become a good lady's maid.
	www.imdb.com /ra/us/a/B000066C4V (2392 words)

	Playbill News: Maggie Smith Eyes Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque
		Maggie Smith is in talks with producer Robert Fox to revive Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque.
		According to British newspaper The Daily Mail, Smith is hoping to take on the title role of Albee’s drama between “Harry Potter” movie commitments.
		With Smith in the title role, The Lady of Dubuque will be expected to beat the run of just 12 performances that followed the play’s 1980 premiere at New York’s Morosco Theatre.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/100727.html (372 words)

	Maggie Smith Current Month TV Schedule
		Starring Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Ashley Judd, Shirley Knight, James Garner, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFadyen, Jacqueline McKenzie.
		Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Daniel Bruhl, Miriam Margolyes, Freddie Jones, David Warner, Clive Russell, Richard Pears, Toby Jones.
		Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn, Richard Portnow, Joseph Maher, Robert Miranda.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/magsmith.html (520 words)

	Maggie Smith News
		News about Maggie Smith continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Courtesy of Thinkfilm Maggie Smith in "Keeping Mum." Keeping Mum PLAY OFFICIAL TRAILER Now Showing: United Artists Siegen Village 10 MPAA Rating: R Critic's Rating: out of 4 stars.
		Imagine "Keeping Mum" as an old-fashioned Brit-comedy, a homicidal farce with Maggie Smith as a housekeeper who "fixes" a nearly broken home headed by Rowan Atkinson and Kristin Scott Thomas.
	www.topix.net /who/maggie-smith (684 words)

	Maggie Smith
		With his acting career on hiatus and his image in ruins, Gibson seeks to mount a comeback by playing it safe: yes, that's right, the Gibson-produced "Apocalypto" is yet another two-hours-plus epic about the end of the Mayan civilization.
		Maggie Smith, as Minerva McGonagall, clasps her arms round Emma Thompson, looking uncharacteristically frumpy as Sybil Trelawny.
		This one is being directed by David Yates and written by Michael Goldenberg, both of whom are new to the series.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/maggie_smith/news.php (2129 words)

	Maggie Smith BOOKS
		Smith's upbeat tale is a get-well card in book form"--PW "Rather than dwell on Daisy's illness, this book celebrates the cheerful
		More playful than your average sibling book, this is perfect for family reading; kids will enjoy the naughty alternatives presented before the loving solutions...
		"Smith's naive and rosy-cheecked characters, cozy textures, and crayon-box colors are a perfect accompaniment to Fleming's well-constructed, cumulative, "house That Jack-Built" patterned story.
	www.maggiebooks.com /books.htm (849 words)

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