Maggie Smith, star of 'Downton Abbey' and 'Harry Potter' films dies at 89

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing histrion who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” successful 1969 and gained caller fans successful the 21st period arsenic the dowager Countess of Grantham successful “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall successful the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.

Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said successful a connection that Smith died aboriginal Friday successful a London hospital.

British histrion Dame Maggie Smith poses successful London connected Dec. 16, 2015. Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” successful 1969 and won caller fans successful the 21st period arsenic the dowager Countess of Grantham successful “Downton Abbey,” has died astatine 89. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

“She leaves 2 sons and 5 loving grandchildren who are devastated by the nonaccomplishment of their bonzer parent and grandmother,” they said successful a connection issued done publicist Clair Dobbs.

Smith was often rated the preeminent British pistillate histrion of a procreation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench.

"Jean Brodie" brought her the Academy Award for champion histrion and the British Academy (BAFTA) grant arsenic good successful 1969. She added a supporting histrion Oscar for "California Suite" successful 1978.