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Dame Maggie Smith - RIP and thank you for your wonderful work

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Phase2 · 27/09/2024 14:18

I can't think of all the wonderful things I've seen with Dame Maggie. I know a life well lived, and age comes to us all, but what a wonderful woman. Any favourites?

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Phase2 · 27/09/2024 14:20

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk7375ngkxo.amp

Maybe the Lady in the Van is my favourite actually

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DeanElderberry · 27/09/2024 14:30

Loved her as Miss Jean Brodie, saw her on stage once as Lady Bracknell, and find it really hard to think of anyone else being Minerva McGonagall.

SameOldMeals · 27/09/2024 14:31

Ladies In Lavender is one of mine.

MrsApplepants · 27/09/2024 14:32

Loved her as Lady Grantham and Professor Mcgonagall. RIP

Bluevelvetsofa · 27/09/2024 14:33

The Lady in the Van.

A wonderful actress in all the roles she performed.

kublacant · 27/09/2024 14:35

Charlotte Bartlett in A Room with a View ❤️

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 27/09/2024 14:35

I love Maggie Smith. Loved her as the acid tongued Dowager Countess in Downtown Abbey. She will always be Minerva McGonagall to me!

bifurCAT · 27/09/2024 14:36

Noooooo... :(

Aquamarine1029 · 27/09/2024 14:36

I love anything she ever did. She was amazing and I'm so sad the world has lost her.

SameOldMeals · 27/09/2024 14:37

I have very fond childhood memories of her roles in Hook and Sister Act.

LegoTherapy · 27/09/2024 14:37

Noooo! What a loss to the world.

Needmorelego · 27/09/2024 14:39

RIP 💐
I liked her as Mrs Medlock in The Secret Garden.

CrossPurposes · 27/09/2024 14:39

So many great parts played superbly and only as Maggie Smith could do.

Death on the Nile.

Dame Maggie Smith - RIP and thank you for your wonderful work
Chowtime · 27/09/2024 14:41

An absolutely outstanding actress.

GCAcademic · 27/09/2024 14:41

So sad. Such a fantastic talent. I can't think of anything I watched with her in it where she was anything less than brilliant.

troppibambini6 · 27/09/2024 14:42

I'm genuinely so sad at this. She was such a wonderful actress.

FuzzyCaoraDhubh · 27/09/2024 14:42

May she rest in peace.
'What is a weekend?' Lady Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey.

AutumnFroglets · 27/09/2024 14:42

Well that's just ruined my day. What an awesome and talented actress 💔

Topseyt123 · 27/09/2024 14:43

Very sad news. She was a fabulous actress.

Tara336 · 27/09/2024 14:43

This is such sad news, I loved her in Downton Abbey such perfect comic timing

WeAreNotCookingTheSpoon · 27/09/2024 14:43

Really sad, loved so much stuff she was in.

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 27/09/2024 14:43

AutumnFroglets · 27/09/2024 14:42

Well that's just ruined my day. What an awesome and talented actress 💔

If any thread should have had a trigger warning it was this.

RIP

Dearg · 27/09/2024 14:44

Great actress, one of our finest.

If you have not seen this one ‘My House in Umbria’ is a sleeper film worth watching.

LookItsMeAgain · 27/09/2024 14:46
Harry Potter Rip GIF

Wands up!

DrivingThePlot · 27/09/2024 14:47

So many wonderful roles but, for me, the most memorable would be The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and, for DS, Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies.