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Maggie Smith, Laura Carmichael, and Imelda Staunton on the set of the Downton Abbey movie (25th September, 2018)

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018, Susan Lacy)

the ladies have good taste in gus kenworthy

yes hello i would like to report a murder cos i’m fuckn dead

“And in 2017, we STILL refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.” | Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda, Emmys 2017

Good luck to amazing Lily Tomlin at tonight’s Emmy Awards!

83 never looked so cool. #maggiesmith #damemaggiesmith. Also as I was at my table outside, minding my own business and writing, I hear a voice, look to the side and there’s #ianmckellen, and five minutes later along comes #patrickstewart. (at Dorfman Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjArKoldtD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j2gobybjaph0

Maggie Smith (with bonus Ian McKellen) attends the Peter Hall Memorial at Westminster Abbey (11th September, 2018)

Penelope Wilton attends the service for Sir Peter Hall at Westminster Abbey

Maggie Smith as Daphne Castle - Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Maggie Smith, interviewed at the UK premiere of California Suite (1979)

I think one if the unfortunate consequences of Maggie career post A Room with a View, is that she has been somewhat been caught in a cycle of playing women older than her, and women in period costume and wigs. I have my own theory as to why (age is heavily involved) but the net result has been that most a) have no idea that Maggie was a redhead, and b) she had the most varied of careers before the industry became its usual lazy and sexist self and didn’t know what to do with her from her middle age onwards.