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A major stage actress, Dame Maggie Smith has nevertheless took to film with gusto, and earned two Oscars and a plethora of nominations in the process.

In recent years she has been best known for playing Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey. However, her greatest performance is possibly as the alcoholic wife in Alan Bennett's series of monologues Talki... [+]

A major stage actress, Dame Maggie Smith has nevertheless took to film with gusto, and earned two Oscars and a plethora of nominations in the process.

In recent years she has been best known for playing Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey. However, her greatest performance is possibly as the alcoholic wife in Alan Bennett's series of monologues Talking Heads; it is a captivating tour-de-force. In fact, she is always compelling, even in comparatively lighter roles such as her sardonic spinster in Ladies In Lavender. In Neil Simon's California Suite she stole the show with acerbic aplomb and won an Oscar for playing an Oscar loser. [-]