While Downton Abbey is mostly a show that relies on the talent of an ensemble cast, time and again, it is Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, the matriach of the family ...
However, it’s worth noting that (spoilers) the first film saw Dame Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley inform her granddaughter, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), that she was dying. “I’m leaving ...