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‘Downton Abbey’ Cast & Creatives Pay Tribute To Maggie Smith; Julian Fellowes, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville
The Downton Abbey family is paying tribute to Maggie Smith, who died Friday at the age of 89.
Maggie Smith, who died Friday at the age of 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. “In Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, Maggie created one of the finest screen performances we have seen across six seasons of the television series and two movies, spanning twelve years. The entire cast and crew of Downton Abbey considered it an enormous honor to work with her, she was an actress of such stature whose incredible talent could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy.
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