Julian Fellowes confirmed the news, saying: ‘Maggie will never die!’ Phew!
Dowager Countess to outlive Downton Abbey… even though character played by Dame Maggie Smith must be 110 by now
She is as much a part of Downton Abbey as its Bath Stone walls – and just as imposing. So it is only right that the redoubtable Dowager Countess of Grantham will remain a constant of the ITV show right until the very end.
By some reckoning the formidable Crawley family matriarch, played by Dame Maggie Smith, would be 110 at the time the final series is set. But it seems that even the Grim Reaper is so intimidated by the prospect of her withering putdowns that the character will not be killed off.
Lord Fellowes, the Oscar winning creator of the show confirmed the news, saying: ‘Maggie will never die!’
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