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on Friday at Windsor castle, a solemn ceremony of awarding the Order of the Knights of Honor. Medals are awarded star of TV series "Downton Abbey" and "Harry Potter Maggie Smith. 79-year-old actress received the award from the hands of the Queen of great Britain - Elizabeth II for his successful 60-year-old theatre, film and delegatelist.
Maggie Smith was awarded the Order of the Knights of Honor
This is not the first recognition, Maggie received from Her Majesty. In 1989, the actress was awarded the title of Lady Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Last Friday's ceremony were awarded to 64 outstanding person. Among them, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, actors Ian McKellen and David Hockney.
Winner of two Oscars and many other honorary awards, Maggie Smith, has in his filmography includes more than 70 works. Among the most successful and famous - "Jane Austen", "David Copperfield", "Evil under the sun", the movie about Harry Potter and the TV series "Downton Abbey," in which she plays the role of the tyrannical, widowed Countess Grants.