Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses ... Shortly before the start of World War II the family moved to Oxford, where her father worked as a pathologist at Oxford University.

The late Dame Maggie Smith talks about her formative career ... In her early life her family moved to Oxford, on the eve of World War Two, and she attended the Oxford School for Girls.

LONDON: Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II ... Eileen Atkins ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who did much to revitalise the UK's theatre scene in the decades after World War II ... inlcuding Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Eileen Atkins, Plowright ...