Tracey Ullman as Maggie Smith in HBO's "Tracey Ullman's Show." “I don’t do it because I hate people and I want to be mean and have a go at people,” Ullman, 57, told Travers.

Ullman broke into U.S. television in 1987 with the award-winning series, "The Tracey Ullman Show," on the then-fledgling Fox network.