Maggie Smith is remembered on social media, and fans have shared several clips that have gone viral. In a funny clip for a show called Nothing Like A Dame, the duo, featuring Judi Dench, said they wanted to act as long as they could.

In her last great role in a long career of many great roles on stage and screen, Maggie Smith played Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, the matriarch of the Crawley family, on Downton Abbey. But the EGO

Dame Maggie Smith admitted to being glad Downton Abbey was finally over in an interview with Graham Norton. The 89-year-old actor, whose death was confirmed on Friday (27 September), made an admission about her Downtown character Violet Crawley to the BBC chatshow host during a 2015 interview.