Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British [3] comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on the memoir of the same name created by Alan Bennett. It was written by Bennett, and it tells the (mostly [ 6 ] ) true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd , an elderly woman who lived in a ...
In 2016 while promoting The Lady in the Van, Smith shared her experiences working on the Harry Potter films and working with Alan Rickman. "He [Rickman] was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played, and it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots.
Margaret Mary Fairchild (4 January 1911 – 28 April 1989), also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, [1] was a British homeless woman.. Her life was depicted in the 2015 film The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett in which she was played by Dame Maggie Smith.
The decorated Dame Maggie Smith made her mark on the industry. ... “Gosford Park” (2001), “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” (2012) and “The Lady in the Van” (2015). She won a Best ...
Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings in a scene from Alan Bennett's "The Lady in the Van," directed by Nicholas Hytner in 2014 in London. (Nicola Dove / John Springer Collection / Getty Images)
That piercing one-woman show — an hour-long televised monologue, written by Alan Bennett, whose “The Lady in the Van” gave Smith one of her indelible last roles — reveals the kind of ...
LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years. Roles ranged from her iconic turn in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" to her Professor Minerva McGonagall in seven Harry Potter films, and films from Shakespeare's “Othello” to the animated “Gnomeo & Juliet.”
Smith received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her work in Suddenly, Last Summer (1992), David Copperfield (1999) and Capturing Mary (2010). Smith won for My House in Umbria (2003). Smith gained international acclaim for her performance in Downton Abbey (2010–2015) as the Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham.