On Friday, September 27, the demise of Dame Maggie Smith was introduced.

I’m certain you recognize her because the caustic Professor Minerva McGonagall, well-known for her stern method with the younger wizards at Hogwarts within the Harry Potter franchise.

Try Maggie Smith behind the scenes in Harry Potter:

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Others keep in mind her because the Dowager Countess of Grantham from the hit collection Downton Abbey. She portrayed Violet Crawley, the grand matriarch well-known for her sharp one-liners all through the present’s six seasons.

Smith’s profession spanned seven many years and ran the gamut from enjoying Desdemona to Laurence Olivier’s Othello at London’s Nationwide Theater to her Oscar-winning flip as Miss Jean Brodie to the Reverend Mom in two of Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act movies.

She additionally acquired a Finest Supporting Actress Oscar for California Suite (1978) and a Tony Award for Lettice and Lovage in 1990.

Tributes have been rolling in since information of her demise was made public, and he or she’s been remembered with nice fondness by those that labored together with her – a few of whom additionally skilled her reducing wit and lack of endurance for foolishness or mediocrity.

Smith was 89 years previous and died in a London hospital.

This clip from 1969’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the story of a Mussolini-admiring schoolteacher in Thirties Scotland, presents a effective glimpse of Smith in an Oscar-winning function early in her profession:

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