SMITH: (As Violet Crawley) When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English. DAN STEVENS: (As Matthew Crawley) But isn't she American? SMITH: (As Violet Crawley) Exactly.

However, franchise star Elizabeth McGovern held fast in a recent interview, saying that the time has come for Cora Crawley ...

The late Dame Maggie Smith’s Lady Violet Crawley kicked the bucket in the second film, Downton Abbey: A New Era. However, her ...

Julian Fellowes, creator of both shows, acknowledges to PEOPLE that a young version of the Dowager exists in England at this ...

Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern has revealed all the details for the upcoming Downton Finale – including a potential ...

Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Nov. 7 in honor of Dame Maggie Smith, who died in September. Smith began her acting career on stage and took theater roles well into her 80s.

Maggie Smith YouTube/Downtown Abbey. In her last great role in a long career of many great roles on stage and screen, Maggie Smith played Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, the matriarch of the ...

Downton Abbey is a British period drama television series of the early 20th century produced by Julian Fellowes, who wrote ...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale will arrive in theaters on September 12.

Ah, Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham – and the British spitfire Maggie Smith who plays her. What would Abbey be without its finest comic relief? Violet’s zingers and dry ...

One of Violet Crawley’s most able sparring partners, Cora’s mother Martha Levinson (Shirley MacLaine) is a perfect contrast to her daughter’s mother-in-law.