The Maggie Smith Page diplays information on the actress who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. It contains a biography, links as well as lots of Maggie Smith pictures

She snared another Best Actress nomination for her picaresque portrayal in Travels With My Aunt (1972), starred in Love and Pain (and the Whole Damn Thing) (also 1972), and won her second Oscar playing, oddly enough, an actress who's nominated for an Oscar-and loses-in the funniest episode of Neil Simon's California Suite (1978). She worked for Merchant and Ivory in Quartet (1981) and then snagged another Oscar nomination for her impeccable work in their Room With a View (1985).

Maggie Smith, whose range is seemingly limitless, appeared in many mainstream commercial films, often playing comedic characters. She made a charming Nora Charles-type female detective in Murder by Death (1976), and played suspects in the all-star Agatha Christie whodunits Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982). She charmingly played an elderly Wendy in Hook (1991), Steven Spielberg's "Peter Pan" saga. She then co starred in a bona fide hit, Sister Act (1992, as the unamused Mother Superior), followed by The Secret Garden and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (both 1993).