Maggie Smith was an actor of legendary wit and style who, even off stage, seemed to have the capacity to deliver a one-line zinger. There’s
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Effortless skill, mixed salads and a certain impatience with life: Michael Palin remembers Maggie Smith
To work with Maggie Smith, as I did in The Missionary and A Private Function, was to be in the presence of pure acting gold.
‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner
Maggie Smith seemed in her performances to care nothing about being loved, but she was as widely adored as an actor can be. The two
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
Maggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor described by peers as being “one of a kind” and possessed of a “sharp eye, sharp wit and formidable
Maggie Smith was the grandest of grande dames – and a true cinematic superstar | Peter Bradshaw
Maggie Smith thought she was famous after The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, in 1969; she gave a glorious, Oscar-winning performance in her mid-30s in
Killer Heat review – overcooked Jo Nesbø adaptation is deathly dull
What might seem like a relatively easy ask on paper – the director of a buzzy festival hit adapting a Jo Nesbø short story with
‘She’d never done anything like this before’: behind the scenes on Shelley Duvall’s extraordinary final film
Felissa Rose is America’s modern day “scream queen”; at 55, the veteran of 150 movies, most of them horror. But she was, she says, genuinely
The Wild Robot review – heartfelt animated adventure is a soaring success
At first glance, The Wild Robot, a new movie from Dreamworks Animation (and one of the studio’s last in-house productions), seems to target the voguish
Paul Feig: ‘Everyone went cannibal over the female Ghostbusters. A lot of dudes were looking for a fight’
You have done more than almost any man alive to promote female‑led comedy. What has made this so close to your heart? Oroklini I love
Post your questions for Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine has worked with lots of the greats: Stanley Kubrick, as wise-cracking marine JT “Joker” Davis in Full Metal Jacket; Jonathan Demme, as a