Not long after tying the knot, the episode ends with Gladys and the Duke setting sail for his estate, Sidmouth Castle, in ...

From 2010 to 2015, Dame Maggie played the quick-witted matriarch Violet Crowley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, becoming central to the success of ITV series.

On Friday, Sept. 27, Dame Maggie Smith died at the age of 89. Smith remained incredibly successful throughout her seven-decade career, although was most recently beloved for playing Professor Minerva ...

Smith, who died in September at the age of 89, played Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in the ITV period drama beginning from 2010. ... who stars as his on-screen wife Lady Cora, ...

The film’s executive producer said Smith’s death gave an “added poignancy to a story that we would have planned anyway ...

The third Downton Abbey movie will be a chance to mourn the Dowager Countess and Maggie Smith, the actress who played her.. Following Smith’s Sept. 27 death at age 89, the upcoming installment ...

Maggie 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, her ...

LONDON - Maggie Smith, who plays the sharp-tongued Dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey," has said that the next season of the British period drama will be her last.

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.

Maggie Smith is remembered on social media after her death today at 89, and fans have shared several clips that have gone viral.. In a funny clip for a show called Tea with the Dames, the duo ...