She was considered one of the greatest British actresses of her generation. Maggie Smith, known for her role as Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter saga and Violet Crawley in the Downton Abbey series, died this Friday September 27 at the age of 89. The actress “passed away peacefully early this morning” at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London announced his two sons, Chris Larkin et Toby Stephenswho are not completely unknown to the French public. Indeed, the two have followed in the footsteps of their illustrious mother and are actors.
Death of Maggie Smith: Chris Larkin, her eldest son, has multiplied roles in series
The eldest first of all, Chris Larkin (real name Chris Stephens) is 57 years old. Although he is not as well known as his mother, he still has a little notoriety across the Channel. After taking courses à la London Academy of Music and Dramatic ArtHe has played countless supporting roles in TV series such as Highlander, Doctor Who, Miss Marple and Outlander. He also had a small success playing Hermann Göring in the TV movie Hitler: The Birth of Evil, broadcast in the early 2000s on TF1.
Death of Maggie Smith: Toby Stephens, a recognized theater actor
Maggie Smith’s youngest child, Toby Stephens, is 55 years old and is therefore also an actor. He made his film debut in 1992 in the film Orlando, playing Othello. But it is above all the theater that he knows his first big success, within the Royal Shakespeare Company. Thus, in 1994, when he was only 25 years old, he played the title role of Coriolanus by William Shakesp and even won an award for this role. In the cinema, in 2002, he played the role of Gustav Graves, the villain of James Bond, Die Another Day opposite Pierce Brosnan as agent 007. An essay that he did not transform since he then appeared mainly in TV series . From 2014 until 2017, he played the role of Captain Flint, the hero of the American pirate series Black Sailsinspired by the novel Treasure Island.
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