Not changing heart with habit. MM 5.1 #ShakespeareSunday

"May I change these garments?" Coriolanus A2 S3 #ShakespeareSunday #HarryPotter

“As an audience or reader, I respond to art that makes me say, 'You know how I feel. You've revealed to me what I already know in my heart of hearts.' And I want to give that to the audience.” — #TobyStephens

“Violet has always been an essentially just character: quite severe in her prejudices and absolute judgments but reasonably just.” — Julian Fellowes #MaggieSmith as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in #DowntonAbbey

#shakespearesunday "..famously enrich'd With politic grave counsel.." Richard 3 2.3 #downtonabbey #maggiesmith

#shakespearesunday "Am I politic? Am I subtle? " The Merry Wives of Windsor 3.1 #downtonabbey #maggiesmith

»…like a scurvy politician« (King Lear) #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith #DowntonAbbey

“Am I politic?” (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Today’s #ShakespeareSunday theme is politics! #TobyStephens

CROWDFUNDER? What are you funding? August 2024 We’re taking 8 actors To do 2 plays  And 1 workshop At #Shakespeare North Playhouse  We need your help to do it! Donate here! buff.ly/3yyHubU

“My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.” (The Taming of the Shrew) Happy #FathersDay to #TobyStephens! ❤️ #ShakespeareSunday 📸 Jon Furniss

#shakespearesunday "...temporal fathers do appease.." Cymbeline 5.4 #downtonabbey #maggiesmith

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: FATHERS

»My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!« (Love’s Labour’s Lost) Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens with their son Christopher in 1970. #ShakespeareSunday

Happy Birthday to #TobyStephens’ brother, the wonderful #ChrisLarkin who you might know as Captain Berringer in #BlackSails, Captain Howard in Master and Commander or Richard Brown in #Outlander. ❤️🎉

Happy Birthday to #MaggieSmith son #ChrisLarkin born on this day #botd in 1967.

This Sunday marks the 12th anniversary of The Hollow Crown airing on BBC two! Please join us in celebrating the occasion on the tag. #ShakespeareSunday theme - THE HOLLOW CROWN PLAYS (series 1) 👑 - Richard II - Henry IV 1+2 - Henry V

On this very day #otd in 1967 actress #MaggieSmith married #RobertStephens which was a pretty significant incident for #TobyStephens fans. 😉 So although the marriage didn’t last, we celebrate the fact it happened!

Maggie Smith in her debut film Nowhere to Go (1958), directed by Seth Holt. It also stars George Nader, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Bessie Love.