When the Downton Abbey story concludes with its Grand Finale film — in theaters on Friday, September 12 — one notable family member will be felt but not seen. Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Focus Features / Universal Pictures The final film of a beloved Maggie Smith trilogy is gearing up for a streaming ...

Final 'Downton Abbey' Film Trailer Reveals Honor to Late Maggie Smith originally appeared on Parade. The hit ITV/PBS period drama Downton Abbey wrapped its original series run in 2015, but since has ...

Maggie Smith, the venerable British actress whose career on stage, film and television spanned more than 60 years, has died. She was 89. Her sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, confirmed she had ...

The Lady in the Van, the British comedy-drama starring the late Maggie Smith and Roger Allam, has been added to Netflix. The 70s-set film, based on Alan Bennett's memoir of the same name, charts the ...

Dame Maggie Smith dominated the halls of Hogwarts as Professor McGonagall and provided a sublime acidic wit as the Dowager Countess in Downtown Abbey in a career spanning seven decades. Born in Ilford ...

Julian Fellowes, a British actor-turned-writer-producer (and actual Lord), has a best original screenplay Oscar on his shelf for the 2001 murder mystery Gosford Park. The film was a hit in Hollywood ...

Set in the 1970s and based on Alan Bennett's memoir of the same name, the film follows the unlikely friendship between Bennett (Alex Jennings) and Miss Shepherd (Smith), a homeless woman who lives in ...

Much talk has already come down the pipeline about the late, great Dame Maggie Smith as Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale prepares to hit the 2025 movie release schedule. Creator Julian Fellowes worked ...

Elizabeth McGovern found the late Dame Maggie Smith's absence from the new Downton Abbey film "freed up the narrative". The 64-year-old actress had been worried that losing her co-star - who died in ...