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Shepperton Studios is honoring Maggie Smith.
The UK workplace unveiled The Maggie Smith Stage successful a backstage ceremonial attended by nan precocious Harry Potter and Downton Abbey actress’s adjacent friends and family members, including her sons Toby Stephens and Christopher Larkin.
Smith had a agelong relation pinch Shepperton and its sister workplace Pinewood, wherever she filmed nan likes of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), for which she won nan Academy Award for Best Actress and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), which earned her nan BAFTA for Best Actress. She besides worked astatine nan studios on Othello (1965), Clash of nan Titans (1981), The Secret Garden (1993), and Gosford Park (2001).
Known arsenic 1 of Britain’s most-loved actresses, Smith passed distant successful 2024 aged 89 pursuing a profession that brought her 2 Oscars, 5 BAFTAs, 4 Emmys and a Tony Award.
Her sons Stephens and Larkin said today: “We are profoundly touched by this recognition. Our mother would person been honoured to person her ain shape astatine Shepperton, a spot she had fond memories of and that intends truthful overmuch to nan manufacture she dearly loved.”
Pinewood Group, which owns Shepperton Studios, added: “Dame Maggie Smith is simply a nationalist wealth and 1 of nan finest actors of her generation. Her relationship to some Shepperton and Pinewood Studios is profoundly woven into our history, and we are honoured to recognise her publication by naming The Maggie Smith Stage.”
