Oscar-winning actress, Dame Maggie Smith, has died.

Dame Maggie Smith, an award-winning British acting great, has died.

She died at the hospital on Friday, September 27, at the age of 89.

Her sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, confirmed the news in a statement today.

“It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith,” said the statement.

“She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September.”

Dame Maggie, who grew up in Oxford and started acting as a child, received an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969.

She acquired new followers in the twenty-first century as the dowager Countess of Grantham on “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films.