But only moments after the trailer arrived, fans picked up on the silent and heartbreaking tribute to the fan-favorite character who is noticeably absent from the film: Violet Crawley, Dowager ...

Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess of Grantham (Season 3, Episode 4) If we're being honest, the Dowager Countess (played by Dame Maggie Smith) could have easily filled up this entire list as ...

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 ...

Maggie Smith in ‘Downton Abbey’ ITV Dowager Countess Violet Crawley died in Downton Abbey: A New Era, but the upcoming third movie will still pay tribute to the late Maggie Smith. “The fact ...

Maggie Smith, who died Friday at 89, earned three Primetime Emmy awards for her role as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in all six seasons of the British period drama Downton Abbey.

Smith's seven-decade stage and screen career included many beloved roles, from "Harry Potter" Professor Minerva McGonagall, to Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in "Downton Abbey." We learn this ...

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.

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 Crawley family, on Downton Abbey. But the ...

Dowager Countess Violet Crawley died in Downton Abbey: A New Era, but the upcoming third movie will still pay tribute to the late Maggie Smith. Smith died at age 89 on September 27, not long after ...