Maggie Smith earned three Primetime Emmy awards for her role as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in all six seasons of the British period drama Downton Abbey. She also reprised her role in the two Downton Abbey films. The legendary actor died Friday at the age 89.

There was no one quite like Maggie. I feel tremendously lucky to have known such a maverick,” said “Downton Abbey” co-star Michelle Dockery.