Beloved actor Maggie Smith died yesterday at 89 ... requires an actor of tremendous command and control to play her. (Vanessa Redgrave played the part in the original British stage production ...

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for "The Prime ... the preeminent British actress of a generation which included Vanessa ...