"They say this is the last one, and I can't see how it could go on," Smith, 80, told London's Sunday Times. "I mean, I certainly can't keep going," she said of her character, the acerbically quipping Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham. "To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s."
Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary in “Downton Abbey.”
Smith has won two Supporting Actress Emmy Awards for her role on the series, which aired its fifth-season finale in the United States on Sunday night.
Despite such accolades in a long and fruitful career -- as well an additional Emmy Award, two Academy Awards and being made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 -- "Downton Abbey" has propelled her to a level of fame she finds uncomfortable.
"One isn't safe after doing 'Downton,' " she told The Times. "What's sad is I've gone through my whole life without any of that. I could go round galleries and things on my own and I just can't do it now. If someone decides to get at you, you can't get away."
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