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Events on Friday 28 December 1934 1
1934 – 1952Maggie Smith born in IlfordMargaret Natalie Smith is born on 28 December 1934 in Ilford, Essex. Her mother, Margaret Hutton, is a Scottish secretary from Glasgow; her father, Nathaniel Smith, is a public-health pathologist from Newcastle upon Tyne who works at the University of Oxford. The family moves to Oxford when Maggie is four. She has older twin brothers. She is educated at Oxford High School until the age of 16, when she leaves to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse. The seed of her career is planted in the city of dreaming spires, not at its university but at its theatre.