Maggie Smith
- Born: 28 Dec, 1934
One of the most revered and rewarded actresses on both sides of the Atlantic, Maggie Smith has created a gallery of characters who run the gamut from repressed spinsters to comical eccentrics. The attractive redhead with the distinctly adenoidal voice, the youngest daughter of a pathologist with ties to Oxford, decided to pursue an acting career while still in her teens. She got her start as an assistant stage manager and performer at the Oxford Playhouse where she made her debut in a 1952 production of "Twelfth Night". Four years later, Smith was improbably singing and dancing on Broadway in the sketch revue "New Faces of '56". That same year, she first appeared on screen in a blink and you'll miss it bit role as a party guest in "Child in the House". Her off...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Nathaniel Smith: worked at Oxford University
- mother Margaret Hutton Little: Scottish
- brother Ian Smith: born on December 8, 1928; twin of Alistair
- brother Alistair Smith: born on December 8, 1928; twin of Ian
- son Chris Larkin: born on June 19, 1967; father, Robert Stephens
- son Toby Stephens: born on April 21, 1969; father, Robert Stephens
- husband Robert Stephens: married on June 29, 1967; marriage was troubled by her career success and his alcoholism and bouts of depression; separated in 1974; divorced in February 1975; father of Smith's two sons; died in 1995 at age 64
- husband Beverley Cross: married from June 23, 1975 until his death on March 20, 1998 at age 66; first became romantically involved in the early 1950s; became engaged; separated in the mid-60s when she fell in love with Robert Stephens; re-met in the early 1970s and rekindled relationship
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