RIP Dame Maggie Smith

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Dame Maggie Smith has died at 89. What an incredible actress she was.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk7375ngkxo

Just leaving this here:

Sad news. RIP Dame Maggie.

RIP Dame Maggie. A wonderful actress. I saw her years ago in David Hare's 'The Breath of Life'. It was just her and Judi Dench and she acted Dame Judi off the stage. She was fantastic. Love her films too. A huge loss to British film and theatre.

Sad news. A brilliant actress who just couldn’t do anything badly, a genius in every role. RIP Dame Maggie.

She was the one actress (or actor) I hoped was in the new Harry Potter. I hadn't realised quite how old she was.

I never saw a bad thing with her in it

"Why must every day involve a fight with an American".

Felt genuinely upset and tearful when I saw this. I don't think I've ever felt that about someone I didn't know.

Sensational actress, the prime of miss Jean brodie is still seared into my brain

Fabulous actress.Her talent will never be forgotten

Neither have I ! It felt odd!

But it did feel a bit like someone had announced there will be no more snow in the alps, no more great vintages of champagne or even just no more tea and buttered crumpets - all things which, just like a good Maggie Smith performance - have given me moments of real enjoyment.

Such a huge loss of one of the best actors of all time. I saw her years ago on stage in Talking Heads - what a fabulous experience!

I think I may rewatch California Suite, which she won her second Oscar for. The film itself is a bit iffy but she’s wonderful and I recommend it just for her.

"I do not intend to devote my Prime to petrification" Well she certainly made the most of hers! Brilliant actress - I was very sad to hear this.

I am rarely saddened in any visceral way by the loss of a celebrity, but she wasn't a celebrity really. She was so much more. She was a supremely talented, warm, erudite and witty woman. She was so effortlessly likeable and interesting and brought nothing but joy to her body of work.

It's particularly moving I think because everything she did was so good that you know everything she could have done would have been wonderful as well. We would have liked more, probably an endless amount tbh.

Just heard a clip of her voice on the radio

Really sad. I don't get upset a celebrities like this, but she was wonderful

If you have access to it, I highly recommend the Sky Arts Discovering Films episode on Maggie Smith. It's been a joyful hour of my life

RIP Maggie. Thank you for your amazing work. You will be missed 💔

Just seen this thread and didn't believe it, went and checked. Just watched two Peter Ustinov Piorot this week with her in them. Death on the Nile & Evil under the sun. Absolutely loved her in Downton Abbey. " What's a weekend?" I say that to dh all the time 🤣

Thank you for everything and may you rest in peace 💐💖😪

Exactly, like a landmark has gone

Miriam Margolyes put it well when she said we have lost something irreplaceable.

I only just realised it, but I was so taken in my all her performances that I never really thought of her as Maggie Smith. To the very end, I always thought of her many characters as just themselves, as though they were real people and individuals. That's quite amazing really isn't it, after all that time in the public eye.

Oh my god I saw this too! I saved up my pocket money! It was amazing and she got a standing ovation!

wonder if @MNHQ could combine the threads.

i loved Maggie Smith
A Bed Among the lentils is on iplayer which I shall rewatch
and I really want to see A Room with a view again.
and A private function.
everything she was in tbh she was wonderful

So close to 90.

There's a programme about her at this moment on BBC2.
When I heard the news yesterday I thought that I saw 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' with my old college friend, so many years ago, saw 'Oh, oh, oh, what a lovely war' on my own, also many years ago, and saw 'Lady in a/the(?) Van' more recently, with a friend. Of course I've seen her in other things in between, and listened to the wonderful, 'Love among the lentils'. Have I got that name right? Alan Bennett plus Maggie Smith.
(Quite like Toby as Mr. Rochester, as well. 🙂)