Maggie Smith is survived by her two kids, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens.
According to her children, the “Harry Potter” actor died on Friday, Sept. 27. She was 89 years old.
“She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother,” the sons said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs.
Smith shares her kids with her late ex-husband Robert Stephens, who was also an actor.
Read on to learn more about Maggie Smith’s children.
Chris Larkin
Smith and Stephens welcomed their first child, Chris Larkin, on June 19, 1967.
When he was 19 years old, he changed his last name as a way to separate his work and his family life.
“I wanted to do it on my own,” he told The Times in a 2013 interview about not relying on his famous family name for work. “Robert, my father, was always trying to get me to trade on the family connection. He never got the changing of the name. He would go: ‘Why don’t you change it back?’ But that was the choice I made. And I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I had gone back on it. It would have been admitting defeat.”
Larkin has made a name for himself in Hollywood. He’s known for acting in 1996’s “Jane Eyre,” 2008’s “Valkyrie” and 2019’s “Official Secrets.”
In 2005, he got married to his wife, Victoria “Suki” Steadman. The pair share two children together.
Toby Stephens
Smith and Stephens welcomed their second son, Toby Stephens, on April 21, 1969.
Like his family, Toby Stephens also decided to pursue a career in acting. However, he says that he wasn’t influenced by his loved ones. In fact, he told The Guardian in 2007 that his parents actually gave him a hard time about acting.
“They tried quite hard to make sure it was what I wanted to do. It wasn’t, ‘Oh great, he’s going into the biz as well.’ It was more, ‘If this really is what you want to do, why? How many plays have you actually seen?” he recalled.
After getting into the biz, Toby Stephens took on some notable roles like Bill Beaman in 2018’s “Hunter Killer” and Gustav Graves in 2002’s “Die Another Day.”
