Maggie Smith, the actress who played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films and starred in "Downton Abbey," died at age 89.

Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.

Oscar-winning British actress Maggie Smith, known for "Downton Abbey" and “Harry Potter,” dies at 89, leaving behind a legendary career.

She was frequently rated as the preeminent British actress of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench.

Oscar winning actor Dame Maggie Smith, who played the beloved character of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series, died on September 27 at the age of 89.

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital.“She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother,” they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs.Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies.She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that “when you get into the granny era, you’re lucky to get anything.”Smith drily summarized her later roles as “a gallery of grotesques…

Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor and Oscar winner who starred in “Downton Abbey” and the Harry Potter films, died at 89.

Maggie Smith, the actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey&...

Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for

Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for

Award-winning British acting legend, Dame Maggie Smith is dead. She died in hospital on Friday 27 September at the age of 89. Her sons Chris Larkin and

Dame Maggie Smith, who has passed away at the age of 89, spent her final years heartbroken following the loss of her second husband, and never recovered from the 'awful' loss

Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.

Legendary actress Dame Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89.

Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter...

Dame Maggie Smith, the actress known in the 21st century for her work in ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Downton Abbey,’ is dead at 89. In her lifetime, she won two Oscars, a Tony, and four Emmys.

Stage and screen legend Maggie Smith, who appeared in the Harry Potter films, Downton Abbey, and so much more, has died at the age of 89.

Dame Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89.