Dame Maggie Smith, best known for “Harry Potter” and “Downton Abbey,” died at 89 on Friday. Her sons, actors Toby Stephens, 55, and Chris Larkin, 57, announced the news that same day.

By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey For 85 years, the names of three of English literature’s best-known writers, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, were featured in ...

The sprawling saga of the Crawley family, Downton Abbey became a global phenomenon, running for six seasons and spawning two theatrical films, with a third due in 2025. Stunningly crafted ...

to roles in “Harry Potter” and “Downton Abbey,” has died, her sons announced in a statement shared by their publicist Clair Dobbs. She was 89. “It is with great sadness we have to ...

Dame Maggie Smith, the trailblazing British actress best known for her starring roles in "Harry Potter" and "Downton Abbey," has died at 89. Smith's two sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens ...

While the most famous collaboration between Smith and Fellowes may have been on the plush, award-winning period drama series, on which Smith notably played the the acid-tongued Dowager Countess ...

British actress Dame Maggie Smith, known for her prolific career in roles like Professor McGonagall in the "Harry Potter" series and Violet Crawley in "Downton Abbey," has died, her family ...

By Lisa de los Reyes, Duane Byrge Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar and four-time Emmy winner whose work in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Downton Abbey — plus everything before and after ...

Dame Maggie Smith, the British screen and stage actress best known for her roles in the Harry Potter franchise and on Downton Abbey, died Sept. 27 at the age of 89. In her storied career ...

By Louis Bayard Louis Bayard recapped “Downton Abbey” for The New York Times during its run. In retrospect, Maggie Smith’s brilliant, high-wire career can be seen as a protest against celebrity.

She also reprised her role in the two Downton Abbey films: her character died in 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era. Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is among those paying tribute to Smith ...

British stage and screen actress Maggie Smith, the “Downton Abbey” and “Harry Potter” star who numbers two Oscars, three Emmys and countless stage awards to her credit, died Friday in London.