Maggie Smith

Most fortunately for the late Miss Shepherd, she's played by Dame Maggie Smith in The Lady In The Van, based on Bennett's memoir, which became in 1999 a stage play starring Smith and, now, the film. Nicholas Hytner staged the play and has directed the  Dame Maggie Smith, our dear Professor Minerva McGonagall, is celebrating … Read more

Maggie Smith in “The Lady in the Van.” Her character, Mary, a.k.a. Margaret Shepherd, is kin to Ms. Smith's “Downton Abbey” alter ego, Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in only one way. Violet and Mary share an attitude of intractable hauteur. Movies at the Library will return on Tuesday, January 5 at 7 p.m. … Read more