VIDEO: Dame Maggie Smith Reveals She's Never Watched DOWNTON ABBEY!
By: Caryn Robbins Oct. 31, 2015
Maggie Smith made a rare talk show appearance on the UK's THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW and shared that she is relieved that DOWNTON ABBEY is finally over and admits she has never seen the show - but she does have the box set! Watch the appearance below
Maggie Smith portrays Violet, the Dowager Countess in the historic drama series DOWNTON ABBEY. The 6th and final season of the show will premiere in the U.S. on January 3rd on PBS.
Dame Maggie won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She won a second Oscar - as well as a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award - in 1978 for her supporting role in Neil Simon's California Suite. Her performances in Othello, Travels with My Aunt, A Room with a View and Gosford Park also garnered Oscar nominations.
Dame Maggie's star has shone continuously throughout her career, with each new generation finding appreciation for her brilliant characterizations - from her early career at London's National Theatre, where in 1963 she played Desdemona opposite Laurence Olivier's Othello, to her mid-career success in film and on stage, to her recent turns as Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films and Violet, the Dowager Countess, in Downton Abbey.
Among her dozens of awards are a Tony and an Olivier, two Oscars, seven BAFTAs, two Emmys, two Golden Globes, a SAG award and five Evening Standard Theatre Awards. She was awarded the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize in 1991, is a fellow of the British Film Institute, was awarded a Silver BAFTA in 1993, is an Hon. DLitt of Cambridge University, and St. Andrews, and is a patron of the Jane Austen Society.
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