Maggie Smith isn't an actress.
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 . Clash of the Titans (1981 film) . It stars Harry Hamlin , Judi Bowker , Burgess Meredith , Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier . Maggie Smith . For her work on the London stage , she has won a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards ; for The Private Ear and The Public Eye ( 1962 ) , Hedda Gabler ( 1970 ) , Virginia ( 1981 ) , The Way of the World ( 1984 ) and Three Tall Women ( 1994 ) . 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 . Nowhere to Go (1958 film) . It stars George Nader , Maggie Smith ( receiving her first screen credit ) , Bernard Lee , Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries .