Liz Smith Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Liz Smith found fame as an actress at an age when most people are considering retirement. It was a long road to eventual stardom, during which she struggled to raise a family after a broken marriage. She became best-known for her roles in The Vicar of Dibley (1994) and The Royle Family but her talents encompassed serious drama too. And while she ...
Full Name
Liz Smith
Net Worth
$1.9 Million
Date Of Birth
December 11, 1921
Died
December 24, 2016, Worthing, United Kingdom, December 24, 2016, Worthing, United Kingdom
Place Of Birth
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Profession
Actor, Journalist, Gossip columnist
Nationality
American
Spouse
Jack Thomas, 7. The Royle Family at Christmas, 6. The Christening, 5. Anthony's Going to London, Jack Thomas
Parents
Sloan Smith, Sarah Elizabeth McCall
Siblings
Leila N Gleadle
IMDB
Awards
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, British Comedy Award for the Best TV Comedy Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, British Comedy Award for the Best TV Comedy Actress
Nominations
British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance, British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance
Movies
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bleak Moments, A Private Function, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Keeping Mum, City of Ember, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Apartment Zero, Hard Labour, High Spirits, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, A Merry W...
TV Shows
Lark Rise to Candleford, The Vicar of Dibley, Between the Sheets, The Royle Family, 2point4 Children, Crapston Villas, In Loving Memory, I Didn't Know You Cared, Pirates, The Young Ones, Now And Then, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Vicar of Dibley, Between the Sheets, The Royle Family, 2point4 Childre...
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Trademark
1
Frequently plays eccentric or dotty old women
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Quote
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My advice is: Never peel potatoes. Think of the time that would be saved in this country if nobody peeled potatoes.
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Fact
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Daughter of Wilfred Gleadle (born 7 May 1901, died 19 September 1973) and Nellie Gladle (born Nellie Foster, died 1924).
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Sister of Leila N Gleadle (born 1924, died 1924).
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In 2006 she moved into an assisted living facility in North London. In 2010, she moved to a similar facility in Worthing, West Sussex.
Played the same role of "Peg Sliderskew" in two different adaptations of "Nicholas Nickleby", in 1977 and 2001.
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She had roles in two "Oliver Twist" films - the 2005 Roman Polanski adaptation, Oliver Twist (2005), and the 1999 I.T.V. mini-series, Oliver Twist (1999). She portrayed separate characters in both versions.
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Announced that she was retiring in 2009, at the age of 87, because she had suffered a stroke which left her unable to accept any further acting roles.Nevertheless she did take on some further roles after making a recovery.
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She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to Drama.
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Was actually christened Betty, rather than Elizabeth.
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Did not work professionally as an actress until the age of 50 and from that point, became one of the most recogniseable faces on television and film, being named as the nation's favourite fictional grandmother. Previous to acting, she lived a difficult life of relative poverty, working in dead-end jobs while raising two children on her own.
