If you were to ask people who their favorite character from " Downton Abbey " is, my guess is well over 90% of the people would choose Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, as played by Dame Maggie Smith . As is the case with most television shows, people tend to gravitate toward the most fun characters, and without a shred of doubt, the Dowager Countess is the most fun. She gets to wield her power freely and deliver all the funniest, cleverest quips the show has to offer. Any scene she is in, her character becomes the focus of the scene, even if she just says a couple of sarcastic one-liners. Smith won three of the five years she was nominated for her performance at the Emmys, and all anyone could say to her taking home yet another award was, "Well, obviously." Even as the show started losing its footing in the later years, you could always rely on Smith to bring the juice. After all, she has been a successful working actor since the 1950s. We have be