Remembering Maggie Smith in Her Most Iconic Roles After Her Death
glamour.com. “She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful staff at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for their care and unstinting kindness during her final days.”Whether you remember her best as Helena Bonham-Carter’s stuffy guardian in A Room With a View or as the , Smith’s decades-long career included dozens of iconic roles in nearly a hundred films and television series.Here are just a few of our favorites.Smith earned her fourth Oscar nomination for 1985’s A Room With a View, in which she plays Charlotte Bartlett, an older woman chaperoning the young Lucy Honeychurch (Bonham-Carter) on a trip to Italy in the early 1900s.
The film begins with Charlotte complaining about their rooms, which do not have the view they were promised.Before she was the transfiguration professor at Hogwarts, Smith was Mother Superior in Sister Act and Sister Act 2, which gave us the perfect line, “Go with god, Crispy.”Maggie Smith played lots of lovably stern, upper-crust guardians in her time, but ’90s kids may remember when she was the less-than-lovable stern, upper-crust guardian Mrs.
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