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1 day ago · Whether you remember her best as Helena Bonham-Carter’s stuffy guardian in A Room With a View or as the Crawley family’s sassy matriarch in Downton Abbey, Smith’s decades-long career included dozens of iconic roles in nearly a hundred films and television series. Here are just a few of our favorites. A Room With a View
1 day ago · Helena Bonham Carter and Smith star in "A Room With a View" in 1985. ... Acclaim came again on both sides of the Atlantic for her interpretation of the caustic-tongued Violet Crawley, ...
2 days ago · Her other popular roles include Mother Superior in Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act and Helena Bonham Carter’s overbearing cousin Charlotte Bartlett in the 1985 adaptation of A Room with a View. Smith’s decades-long career on screen and on stage began in the 1950s, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in England and on Broadway in New York.
2 days ago · But she gained new admirers as Charlotte Bartlett, the prim and protective chaperone to Helena Bonham Carter’s Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With a View, James Ivory’s adaptation of the E.M ...
2 days ago · Maggie Smith is being remembered by members of the Wizarding World and Downton Abbey families following her death at the age of 89. The fan-favorite actor was best known in her later career for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in all eight Harry Potter films and Violet Crawley in the ITV series Downton Abbey and its two feature-length sequels.
1 day ago · The film, which also starred Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, ... Dame Maggie was central to the success of ITV period drama Downton Abbey in the role of Violet Crawley, ...
1 day ago · Bonham Carter, who was then Burton's domestic partner, recalled that after he formally asked her to come to a meeting at his office, she thought Burton was going to propose marriage to her until he showed one of his character sketches and offered her the role. [68]
