Maggie SmithA Biography
Michael Coveney
In this award-winning memoir, Michael Coveney charts the career of one of Britain’s best-loved actors from her first stage appearances through the Oscar-winning The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to recent successes in the Harry Potter films, Downton Abbey and Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van. Drawing on personal encounters and access to family, friends and a cast of theatrical colleagues, he also offers an insight into her closely guarded off-stage life.
