Maggie Smith Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Maggie Smith filmography covers 57 movie titles and 5 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Maggie Smith movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Nowhere to Go (1958) as Bridget Howard
• The V.I.P.s (1963) as Miss Mead
• The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as Philpot
• Othello (1965) as Desdemona
• Young Cassidy (1965) as Nora
• The Honey Pot (1967) as Sarah Watkins
• Hot Millions (1968) as Patty Terwilliger Smith
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as Music Hall Star
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) as Jean Brodie
• Travels with My Aunt (1972) as Augusta Bertram
• Murder by Death (1976) as Dora Charleston
• California Suite (1978) as Diana Barrie
• Death on the Nile (1978) as Miss Bowers
• Clash of the Titans (1981) as Thetis
• Quartet (1981) as Lois Heidler
• Evil Under the Sun (1982) as Daphne Castle
• The Missionary (1982) as Lady Isabel Ames
• A Private Function (1984) as Joyce Chilvers
• A Room with a View (1986) as Charlotte Bartlett
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) as Judith Hearne
• Hook (1991) as Granny Wendy
• Sister Act (1992) as Mother Superior
• Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) as Mother Superior
• The Secret Garden (1993) as Mrs. Medlock
• Richard III (1995) as Duchess of York
• The First Wives Club (1996) as Gunilla Garson Goldberg
• Washington Square (1997) as Aunt Lavinia Penniman
• Curtain Call (1998) as Lily Marlowe
• Tea with Mussolini (1999) as Lady Hester Random
• Gosford Park (2001) as Constance Trentham
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) as Minerva McGonagall
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) as Caro
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Minerva McGonagall
• My House in Umbria (2003) as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Minerva McGonagall
• Ladies in Lavender (2004) as Janet
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Minerva McGonagall
• Keeping Mum (2005) as Grace Hawkins
• Becoming Jane (2007) as Lady Gresham
• Capturing Mary (2007) as Mary Gilbert
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) as Minerva McGonagall
• From Time to Time (2009) as Linnet
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) as Minerva McGonagall
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010) as Agatha Rose Doherty
• Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) as Lady Bluebury (voice)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Minerva McGonagall
• Quartet (2012) as Jean Horton
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) as Muriel Donnelly
• My Old Lady (2014) as Mathilde Girard
• The Lady in the Van (2015) as Miss Shepherd
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) as Muriel Donnelly
• Nothing Like a Dame (2018) as Self
• Sherlock Gnomes (2018) as Lady Bluebury (voice)
• Downton Abbey (2019) as Violet Crawley
• A Boy Called Christmas (2021) as Aunt Ruth
• Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) as Violet Crawley
• The Miracle Club (2023) as Lily Fox

Maggie Smith television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Maggie Smith; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• David Copperfield as Betsey Trotwood
• Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley
• Great Performances as Violet Venable
• The Carol Burnett Show as Self
• The Oscars as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Maggie Smith's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.