Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess drops a bomb in the first teaser trailer for Downton Abbey: A New Era that arrived Monday. "Years ago, before you were born, I met a man," the dowager countess begins. ...

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Proceed with caution. Major spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the Downton Abbey movie! At first, Maggie Smith was not onboard for the Downton Abbey movie—in no small part because her character, the ...

Smith has portrayed Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, since the PBS series began back in 2010. But thanks to the end of the original 2019 film, Dame Smith’s participation in future ...

Downton Abbey fans rejoiced this year when the film, aptly named, Downton Abbey, opened to rave reviews. Fans of Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess were able to revel in bon mots, stinging retorts and ...

Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess of Grantham is known to enjoy a cup of tea and a slice of cake. So what better way to celebrate the launch of the hit British show’s fifth season in the U.S. than to ...

Important news: an actual life-sized cake of Dame Maggie Smith's Downton Abbey character Violet Crawley, aka the Dowager Countess of Grantham, exists. The cake, which is a bust of the Dowager Countess ...

From the Dowager Countess’ best zingers to (some of) the times Anna made us sob uncontrollably, here’s a highlight reel — six lists with six items each, all to honor the end of the sixth and final ...