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Dame Maggie Smith was a British actress who worked in theatre, television and film. She made her professional theatre debut in 1956 playing Viola in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in musical revue New Faces of 1956 (1956). Smith excelled in both comedy and drama performing in various works of Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Noël Coward, Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard. She received three Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1980) before winning in 1990 for Lettice and Lovage.