In this adaptation of Shakespeareâ s tragedy, Dame Maggie Smith takes on the role of Desdemona, the innocent and tragic wife of Laurence Olivierâ s Othello. The film remains faithful to ...

“Well,” I said, “it was Desdemona’s evening.” And so it was, in the hands of the young Maggie Smith. Of course, by the time ...

It's understandable that most movie and TV fans remember Maggie Smith for her dynamic ... Olivier had Smith reprise her Desdemona, the object of Othello's obsession in his 1965 film of the play ...

In 1993, Nicholas Hytner directed Maggie Smith for the first time ... production of Othello in which she played Desdemona, ...

Beloved actor Maggie Smith died yesterday at 89 ... By the early 1960s, she was starring in the National Theatre as Desdemona opposite Laurence Olivier’s Othello and swiftly became a leading ...

It was this latter work, as Desdemona in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1965 Othello, that earned Smith her first Oscar ... played by ...

Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar-winning actor best ... The following year, Smith played Desdemona in Olivier's "Othello." Two years later, Smith reprised her role in Olivier's film adaptation ...