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

Elizabeth McGovern spoke ahead of the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. With the release of Downton Abbey: The ...

The forthcoming title also represents the first Downton Abbey film without Maggie Smith, who portrayed Violet Crawley. The ...

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

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale will mark the first film in the franchise without legendary series regular Maggie Smith, who portrayed family matriarch Violet Crawley. While her absence was deeply ...

Dame Maggie Smith, best known for “Harry Potter” and “Downton Abbey,” died at 89 on Friday. Her sons, actors Toby Stephens, 55, and Chris Larkin, 57, announced the news that same day.

A talent like the venerated Dame Maggie Smith is rare to come across, and it’s rarer to be able to see such craft carried out over the span of decades. An award-winning powerhouse of talent, she ...

Daniel Radcliffe and Maggie Smith in 2007's 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' “The first time I met Maggie Smith I was 9 years old and we were reading through scenes for David ...

Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon, who played Minerva McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter" films, died exactly one year apart.

RIP Maggie Smith Here being very amusing with Judi Dench & Joan Plowright. She always made me laugh a hell of a lot on or off screen. Got to take my students to see her as Lady Bracknell in The ...

Whoopi Goldberg will always have a friend in Dame Maggie Smith.. Goldberg opened up to People about how her Sister Act co-star was there for her after she discovered her mother was put on life ...

Maggie Smith leaning up on chair in a scene from the film “Travels With My Aunt,” 1972. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images. “Whenever I mentioned I was painting her, people would say ...