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- The reigning matriarch of the Crawley family, Violet (Maggie Smith), is a force to reckon with. The wife of the 6th Earl of Grantham, Patrick Crawley, and mother of the 7th, she is the Dowager Countess of Grantham. Though technically, her son is in charge, Violet runs the family in a more subtle way.
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (b. 1842[1] - 1928), was the matriarch of the Crawley Family by her marriage to the late Earl of Grantham and a relative of the MacClare Family via her niece and goddaughter, Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire.
3 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · Maggie Smith has played Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, over six seasons of Downton Abbey and in two film adaptations. How very Dowager of her. And yet, she returned.
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Dame Margaret Smith (born as Margaret Natalie Smith on 28th December 1934; Ilford, England) known professionally as Maggie Smith, is the actress who plays Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey. Smith made her stage debut in 1952 and has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film, and television...
2 days ago · Decades of theatrical training had refined Smith’s comic timing down to the finest grain, but the many Violet Crawley memes generated by “Downton Abbey” underscore just how much her face ...
3 days ago · In a career that flourished well into her 80s, Smith played the stern yet compassionate Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter series and the irascible Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess ...
2 days ago · From 2010, she was the acid-tongued Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in hit TV period drama “ Downton Abbey,” a role that won her legions of fans, three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe and a host of other awards nominations. But she chafed at television fame. When the show’s run ended in 2016, Smith said she was relieved.
