Maggie Smith in her debut film Nowhere to Go (1958), directed by Seth Holt. It also stars George Nader, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Bessie Love.

»My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!« (Love’s Labour’s Lost) Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens with their son Christopher in 1970. #ShakespeareSunday

“Violet has always been an essentially just character: quite severe in her prejudices and absolute judgments but reasonably just.” — Julian Fellowes #MaggieSmith as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in #DowntonAbbey

Rod Taylor and Maggie Smith - behind the scenes on Young Cassidy (1965)

Maggie Smith in 1973.

Today #MaggieSmith’s late second husband and the love of her life, playwright Beverley Cross, would have turned 93. Happy heavenly birthday! ❤️

Starting the last week of #CorruptionPlay at LCTheater, which Tom Watson are you today? 1. My hair is still sundaying. 2. It really is Monday every week forever, right? 3. We’ll always have humour and fuck you’s! 4. WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO! #MondayMood #TobyStephens

Wise words from a wise old Dame, the magnificent @maggieficent.bsky.social ❤️ #WordsToLiveBy

Maggie Smith in 1957.

Maggie Smith in 1970. 📸 McCarthy/Daily Express

Maggie Smith in 1955.

Maggie Smith in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', 1969

Maggie Smith at The Royal Film Performance and World Premiere of "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" at Odeon Leicester Square on February 17, 2015 📸 Dave M. Benett/WireImage

Maggie Smith in 1972. 🔥

»here is that which will give language to you, cat.« (The Tempest) #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith

Maggie Smith at the Evening Standard Drama Awards in 1957

Maggie Smith in Alan Bennett’s The Lady In The Van, Queen’s Theatre 1999 #TheatreThursday

Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969 👊

Maggie Smith as Halina in Stephen Poliakoff’s “Coming In To Land” National Theatre 1987 #TheatreThursday #MaggieSmith

Maggie Smith at the Golden Globes 2002. 📸 GREGG DEGUIRE

Happy #MothersDay to all moms who get celebrated today and specially to the incomparable Dame #MaggieSmith, mother to #TobyStephens, #ChrisLarkin and all of us basically. 😉

“I am bride-habited, But maiden-hearted” (The Two Noble Kinsmen) Maggie Smith in Love And Pain And The Whole Damn Thing, 1973 #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith

Maggie Smith in California Suite, 1978, a performance that earned her her second Academy Award — this time for Best Supporting Actress. She has been nominated six times.

Maggie Smith in Sister Act, 1992

»these pencill’d figures are Even such as they give out.« (Timon of Athens) Portrait of Dame Maggie Smith by James Lloyd at the @NPGLondon #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith

»the memorials and the things of fame that do renown this city« (Twelfth Night) #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith

Maggie Smith with fans at the 130th Sandringham Flower Show on July 27, 2011 📸 Indigo

Maggie Smith and Elizabeth McGovern behind the scenes of #DowntonAbbey

Maggie Smith as Myra Arundel in Hay Fever National Theatre 1964 #TheatreThursday

Maggie Smith in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964

Go about the fields with me. MWW 2.3 #ShakespeareSunday

“… up to yond hill” (Cymbeline) #ShakespeareSunday #TobyStephens

»This garden has a world of pleasures in’t.« (The Two Noble Kinsmen) #ShakespeareSunday

It’s #KissAGingerDay so let’s revisit the one time Leonardo Di Caprio kissed a woman older than 25. giphy.com/gifs/bafta-c...

Maggie Smith in Keeping Mum, 2005

Maggie Smith in The Honey Pot 1967. This is the cutest photo of all times!

Maggie Smith in 1960, age 25, in "Strip The Willow" at the Newcastle Theatre.

“You might as well ask a writer how he writes or a painter how he paints. I don’t want to talk about how I create a character.” — Maggie Smith #MaggieSmith #DowntonAbbey

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎊 #MaggieSmith

»The language I have learnt these forty years« (Richard II) #ShakespeareSunday

I finally watched The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, having read the novel for the first time earlier this year. It’s a fervid story of trust, betrayal and the fatal romance of idealism - and the film captures it perfectly. Maggie Smith is beyond phenomenal.

Happy Birthday to Toby Stephens’ mother Dame Maggie Smith! ❤️

Maggie Smith in "The V.I.P.s", "The Pumpkin Eater", "Young Cassidy" and "Oh! What a Lovely War" - BOTD

“Bette Davis was right. Old age is not for sissies and old age is not for television because it is so relentless.” — Maggie Smith

Happy Birthday Maggie Smith!

»Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.« (The Comedy of Errors) #ChristmasDay #HarryPotter #MaggieSmith

“Through the house give glimmering light By the dead and drowsy fire, Every elf and fairy sprite Hop as light as bird from brier, And this ditty, after me, Sing, and dance it trippingly.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🧝🎄 #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith

Maggie Smith and Miriam Margoyles in Harry Potter

Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Bonneville in #DowntonAbbey