Greg Wise, best known as Willoughby in 1995's 'Sense and Sensibility,' joins 'The Buccaneers' for season 2. The creator tells ...

Demystifying the Empress Dowager For her upcoming show in Hong Kong, New York-based artist dominique Fung turns to the unlikely figure of empress dowager Cixi to investigate how a woman's image is ...

Elizabeth McGovern spoke ahead of the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. With the release of Downton Abbey: The ...

Empress Dowager Cixi (second from left) ruled China for much of the second half of the 19th century. (Wikimedia Commons) For much of the second half of the 19th century, as China’s Qing Dynasty ...

Maggie Smith on being directed by Dustin Hoffman in "Quartet" and forming attachments—amid fresh fame—on "Downton Abbey." ...

Though she lacks magical powers, Greenwood’s deadly dowager gradually emerges as one of the great witches of modern literature, insidious, cruel, hypocritical and inveterately manipulative.

Many others in China’s new urban elite had been content to bide their time, hoping that the death of the Empress Dowager, then in her 70s, would usher in a new era of change.

Dame Maggie Smith is asking to be written out of “Downton Abbey” after three seasons, according to reports. “She is filming until August and then wants to leave, going out on a high,” a ...