The Dowager Countess Was Long The Glue That Held The Downton Abbey Franchise Together. How The Third Movie Will Pay Tribute To Dame Maggie Smith. Story by Mike Reyes • 3mo.

As Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, the grand matriarch of the manor was, in many ways, a peak Maggie Smith role. “Downton” reunited Smith with Fellowes after her Oscar ...

Fans of “Downton Abbey” were devastated when Maggie Smith, aka the Dowager Countess, died in September. Smith had starred in both the TV series and in both movies, with the Countess character ...

They’ll give a hat-tip to her in the movie. The upcoming “Downton Abbey” movie will include a tribute to Maggie Smith, who died at 89 in September. Smith played the iconic Dowager Countess ...

The Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, her character in “Downton Abbey,” is one of the most exquisitely acted roles of a generation. Seemingly a peripheral character, she still managed to often ...

Smith gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. British actress Dame Maggie Smith ...

It is a film that not only says goodbye to the series’ longtime fans, but also to the late Maggie Smith, whose bitingly witty Dowager Countess passed away onscreen in “Downton Abbey: A New Era ...

Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has died at 89.

As the tart-tongued Dowager Countess of Grantham, she was “Downton’s” superpower — able to freeze a room with a glance, break your heart with the twitch of a shoulder and sum up the the ...

Jean Brodie, Minerva McGonagall, Violet Crawley: Maggie Smith embodied these memorable roles on stage and screen. NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of the actor, who died yesterday at the age of 89.