Maggie Smith is person who acts.
A Room with a View (1985 film) . It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy , Julian Sands as George and Maggie Smith , Denholm Elliott , Daniel Day-Lewis , Judi Dench and Simon Callow in supporting roles . Maggie Smith . She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress , including for A Private Function ( 1984 ) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ( 1988 ) , a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea With Mussolini ( 1999 ) , and three Golden Globe Awards . She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria , to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , and starred as Lady Violet Crawley , Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey ( 2010 -- 15 ) , for which she won three Emmys , her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award and her third Golden Globe .