Best known in recent years for matriarchal roles in seven of the Harry Potter films and the ITV-PBS series Downton Abbey, Smith earned early acclaim with the Best Actress Oscar for portraying the titular schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
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