Maggie Smith Net Worth

Maggie Smith's Quotes

• One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.
• "Jude is the most incredibly level person. Generous, understanding. All the things I'd have to work very hard at, Jude is like that all the time. I would love to be like that. And working with Jude you have to try to remember that you ought to be like that" [on her friend Judi Dench].
• I love it, I'm privileged to do it and I don't know where I'd be without it. [on acting]
• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
• "I still miss him so much it's ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. Even in my dream I kept saying to him, 'You are dead. You can't be here'" [on her second husband, Beverley Cross].

Interesting Facts about Maggie Smith

1. Director Agnieszka Holland admired Maggie Smith for years before making The Secret Garden (1993). She knew of Smith's talents and immediately offered her the role of Mrs. Medlock.
2. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1970 Queen's New Year Honours List and the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1990 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama.
3. Created an honorary D.Litt of the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge in 1971 and 1995 respectively.
4. She ranked tenth in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British film actresses.
5. Mother-in-law of actress Anna-Louise Plowman.
6. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Best Actress for her performance in "The Lady in the Van" at the Queen's Theatre.
7. She was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of the 1997 season for her performance in "A Delicate Balance" at the Haymarket Theatre.
8. She was awarded the 1984 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Way of the World".
9. She was awarded the 1981 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
10. She was awarded the 1994 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Three Tall Women".
11. Portrayed by Ian McKellen on Saturday Night Live (1975).
12. In 2003, she became the seventeenth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscars: Best Actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) & Best Supporting Actress, California Suite (1978), Tony: Best Actress - Play, "Lettice and Lovage" (1990), and Emmy: Best Actress - Miniseries/Movie, My House in Umbria (2003).
13. Is a good friend of Judi Dench.
14. Worked with Laurence Olivier in the 1960s at the National Theatre.
15. Her father Nathaniel was a Geordie and a pathologist. Her mother Margaret was a Glaswegian and a secretary.
16. Her twin brothers Ian and Alistair are six years older than she is. They were both architects until Alastair died in 1981.
17. Won Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Lettice and Lovage." She was also nominated twice before in the same category: for a revival of Noël Coward's "Private Lives" in 1975, and for "Night and Day" in 1980.
18. Educated at the High School for Girls in Oxford, she started out in the theater as a prompt girl and understudy at the Oxford Repertory. She claims she never went on as no one ever fell ill.
19. Made her stage debut with the Oxford University Dramatic Society as Viola in Shakespare's "Twelfth Night." Bird-dogged by an American theatrical impresario, the part led to her being cast in her Broadway debut in "New Faces of 1956."
20. Had to change her stage name to "Maggie Smith" as there already was an actress named "Margaret Smith" at the time she started in the profession.