Dame Maggie Smith's flair for both comedy and tragedy made her one of Britain's most formidable actors, said The Hollywood Reporter. She won the first of six Oscar nominations in 1965, starring ...

Says Maggie Smith: "My grandmother had said to my mother that she couldn't let me go on the stage, because, she said, 'You can't let her. Not with a face like that.' And I think that it made me so ...