american actress who plays lead in madam secretary
Madam Secretary (TV series) Madam Secretary is an American political drama television series created by Barbara Hall and executive produced by Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman. It stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst and political science professor turned Secretary of State. The series premiered on September 21, 2014. On October 27, 2014, CBS placed a full season order consisting of 22 episodes for the first season.[1] On March 23, 2017, CBS renewed the series for a fourth season.[2] In 2017, CBS sealed a multi-platform syndication deal worth an estimated $2 million per episode.[3] On April 18, 2018, the series was renewed for a fifth season.[4]
Maggie Smith Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–11). Other notable films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting,[5][6] and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey (2010–15), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, and the Special Olivier Award in 2011. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012,[7] and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016.[8]