Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier had a friendship and working relationship that spanned more than three decades, but they weren't always on good terms.

Maggie Smith has made a big impact in film, appearing in some of the best movies over the decades, including Gosford Park and ...

The late actor cultivated a specific kind of Englishness for the screen, but she was never afraid to upend expectation.

Oscar, Emmy and Tony winning actress Maggie Smith, who played everything from ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the dowager countess in Downton Abbey, has died at 89.

Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses whose long career ranged from starring opposite Laurence Olivier in “Othello” on stage and screen, to roles in “Harry Potter” and ...

Queen Elizabeth II being presented to Dame Maggie Smith by Sir Laurence Olivier, when the Queen attended the charity premiere of the film Othello at the Odeon Theatre in London, on May 2, 1966 ...

Surveying Maggie Smith’s richly busy, barely rivalled career – critically acclaimed and popularly adored – some triumphs leap ...

Smith was once so slender and delicate as Desdemona that Laurence Olivier's Othello could easily smother her with a pillow. By the end of her career, no one would've dared try.

Ms. Smith was a founding member of Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre company in 1963 and later was a marquee actress of the Stratford Festival’s classical repertory company in Ontario.