Harry Potter Star Passes Away

LONDON, ENGLAND— A Downton Abby and Harry Potter actress has passed away.

Actress Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89. Smith was nominated for six Academy Award and won two Oscars for her roles in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She also won five BAFTA Awards.

While those roles are award winning, many know Smith from her portrayal of Professor Minerva McGonagall in all of the Harry Potter films and Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in Downton Abby.

Smith died at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.

Far from the only Harry Potter actor to pass away as notably Michael Gambon and Richard Harris, who portrayed Professor Albus Dumbledore, Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape, and Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid, in the film series have all passed as well as Robert Knox, Elizabeth Spriggs, Timothy Bateson, Jimmy Gardner, Alfred Burke, Eric Sykes, Richard Griffiths, Peter Cartwright, Roger Lloyd Pack, Dave Legeno, Derek Deadman, David Ryall, Terance Bayler, Hazel Douglas, John Hurt, Sam Beazley, Robert Hardy, Verne Troyer, Paul Ritter, Helen McCrory, Leslie Phillips, and Paul Grant.