Jessica Brown Findlay - Lady Sybil Crawley
Jessica Brown-Findlay (born 14 September 1989) is an English actress. She played the character of Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey.
Jessica trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet. Aged 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.
Jessica attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, Brown-Findlay was accepted to a number of ballet schools but chose to go to the Arts Educational School, because of the A-level courses it provided and its pastoral care. She attended for two years and in her second year had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong. Waking up from the anasthetic, she was told she couldn’t dance anymore.
After encouragement from an art teacher, she applied for and got onto a Fine Art course at St Martin’s. While there, she took up acting classes. After being seen by a casting agent, she was cast in the lead role of Emelia in the film Albatross, directed by Niall MacCormick. She was subsequently cast in an episode of the E4 programme Misfits and in Downton Abbey.
Jessica trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet. Aged 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.
Jessica attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, Brown-Findlay was accepted to a number of ballet schools but chose to go to the Arts Educational School, because of the A-level courses it provided and its pastoral care. She attended for two years and in her second year had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong. Waking up from the anasthetic, she was told she couldn’t dance anymore.
After encouragement from an art teacher, she applied for and got onto a Fine Art course at St Martin’s. While there, she took up acting classes. After being seen by a casting agent, she was cast in the lead role of Emelia in the film Albatross, directed by Niall MacCormick. She was subsequently cast in an episode of the E4 programme Misfits and in Downton Abbey.
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Downton Abbey - Lady Sybil Crawley
The family rebel, Lady Sybil Crawley is fiercely political and generally angered by injustice everywhere. Sybil exasperates both parents. She will go through the motions when it comes to the responsibilities of high society, but her true goals in life are well beyond what her parents consider the proper field.
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Films and Television
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Harlots (ITV Encore 2017) - Charlotte Wells
The year is 1763, and the sex trade is booming in Georgian London. Despite a backlash from religious zealots and heavy fines on offenders, one in five women earn their living from the sex trade, there's a brothel on every corner and there is even a Yellow Pages-style directory of prostitutes titled Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies featuring very explicit reviews and recommendations.
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Jessica plays Charlotte who is the eldest daughter of Margaret Wells, who runs a popular middle-class brothel. It may surprise many to see that, despite her roots, this beautiful and fashionable young woman is a London celebrity – but there are lots of surprises when you look more closely at the Georgian sex industry. Ambitious Margaret has tried to set her up with "keepers" (men who would take ownership of a woman, giving them some legal and financial security) but Charlotte herself is a troublemaker. Fiery and rebellious with a self-destructive streak, she cannot bear the possessiveness of her current keeper Sir George Howard.
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Iris Warriors (2017) - Miss Shaw
England, 1940: When bombs trap eight children in the cellar of their orphanage, their teacher, Miss Shaw (Jessica Brown Findlay) starts to read them a story. As the tale unfolds, they are magically transported to a timeless, mythical island, where they witness the story of Darkness and Light, and of how their union and their conflict produced the Iris Warriors, the seven colors of the rainbow that brighten and illuminate our world.
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This Beautiful Fantastic (2017) - Bella Brown
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A charming, beautifully photographed modern fairy tale about love and gardening, This Beautiful Fantastic is worth seeing in spite of its dumb deterrent of a title. It’s an odd story about some very odd people guaranteed to grow on you
The centerpiece is a reclusive woman who dresses almost entirely in black. Her name is Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay). She was a foundling tended by a flock of ducks, rescued by an old man in the bulrushes by a lake and raised in a Catholic orphanage. Cut to Bella as a very strange adult indeed—an assistant librarian with a passion for order and precision with a dream of becoming an author of children’s books. One thing Bella has no interest in or talent for is horticulture.
The centerpiece is a reclusive woman who dresses almost entirely in black. Her name is Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay). She was a foundling tended by a flock of ducks, rescued by an old man in the bulrushes by a lake and raised in a Catholic orphanage. Cut to Bella as a very strange adult indeed—an assistant librarian with a passion for order and precision with a dream of becoming an author of children’s books. One thing Bella has no interest in or talent for is horticulture.
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Victor Frankenstein (2015) - Lorelei
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In London, ambitious medical student Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) attends a circus performance, where he helps save an injured aerialist, Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay), by aid of a nameless hunchback (Daniel Radcliffe) enslaved by the circus' ringleader, and who harbors feelings for the girl. Impressed by the hunchback's vast knowledge of human anatomy, acquired from stolen books, Victor rescues him, drains the cyst on his back that causes his physical abnormality and develops a harness to improve his posture, and then names him "Igor Straussman" after a recently deceased roommate. The two then become partners in Victor's ongoing experiments to create life through artificial means, incurring the wrath of religious police inspector Roderick Turpin (Andrew Scott), who views their experiments as sinful.
After Igor suggests they use electricity to animate their creations, Victor procures parts from dead animals and creates a monstrous chimpanzee-esque creature nicknamed "Gordon". Meanwhile, Igor reunites with Lorelei, now masquerading as the mistress of a closeted homosexual baron, and the two develop an affair, upsetting Victor, who views Lorelei as a distraction.
After Igor suggests they use electricity to animate their creations, Victor procures parts from dead animals and creates a monstrous chimpanzee-esque creature nicknamed "Gordon". Meanwhile, Igor reunites with Lorelei, now masquerading as the mistress of a closeted homosexual baron, and the two develop an affair, upsetting Victor, who views Lorelei as a distraction.
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The Outcast (BBC 2015) - Alice
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Lewis Aldridge is ten years old when he goes on a picnic with his mother and witnesses her drowning. His emotionally distant father struggles to deal with the situation and is soon remarried, to Alice (Jessica Brown Findlay) . Lewis' young and well-meaning new stepmother tries her best, but is unable to reach Lewis emotionally. In adolescence, Lewis is taunted about the circumstances surrounding his mother's death and begins to self-harm. He subsequently sets the local church on fire and spends time in prison for committing arson. On his release from prison, he has increasingly complicated relationships with his stepmother Alice
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Jessica plays the well-intentioned Alice who is unprepared for the life she has married into.
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England is Mine (2017) - Linder Sterling
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Steven Patrick Morrissey wants to write and sing. But as a young man, his voice goes no further than the NME letters page and his dead-end office walls. When the punk scene explodes, Steven discovers there's more to life than dark satanic mills. With the help of strong women, the young Morrissey embarks on a journey to become himself in a world that's trying to make him like everybody else.
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A New York Winters Tale (2014) - Beverly Penn
A burglar (Colin Farrell) falls for an heiress (Jessica Brown FRindlay) as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her. Film in Cinema's from February 2014
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Jamaica Inn - Mary
Set in 1821 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journey of young and spirited Mary Yellan who is forced to live with her Aunt Patience after the death of her mother.
Despite pressure to marry local boy Ned after her mother’s death, Mary refuses to compromise. Though Ned is kind to her, she doesn’t love him and won’t marry without love. Mary declines Ned’s proposal, and journeys to Jamaica Inn in Cornwall.
Mary arrives at the isolated Inn to discover her Aunt is a shell of the carefree woman she remembers from her childhood, and instead finds a tired and anxious woman who is firmly under the spell of her domineering husband Joss. To complicate matters further Mary finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Jem Merlyn, but Jem is her uncle’s brother and therefore not to be trusted in Mary’s mind - although her heart may say otherwise...
Despite pressure to marry local boy Ned after her mother’s death, Mary refuses to compromise. Though Ned is kind to her, she doesn’t love him and won’t marry without love. Mary declines Ned’s proposal, and journeys to Jamaica Inn in Cornwall.
Mary arrives at the isolated Inn to discover her Aunt is a shell of the carefree woman she remembers from her childhood, and instead finds a tired and anxious woman who is firmly under the spell of her domineering husband Joss. To complicate matters further Mary finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Jem Merlyn, but Jem is her uncle’s brother and therefore not to be trusted in Mary’s mind - although her heart may say otherwise...
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Castlevania - Voiceover - Lenore
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Whatever After - Narrator
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England is mine - Linder Sterling
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The Riot Club (2014) - Rachel
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Black Mirror - 15 Million Merits - Abi
15 Million Merits depicts a future in which existence is a stripped away and simplified affair, driven by digital credits and an overwhelming absorption of images and screens. The only hope of escaping this drudgery appear to be through obtaining fame. Exacerbated by the emptiness of his life and the constant barrage of very loud adverts, Bing (Daniel Kaluuya) is restless to grasp onto something “real”. One day he over hears a girl named Abi (Jessica Brown Findlay) singing in the toilets, and is utterly enamoured by her. In an act of earnest generosity, he offers her the vast sum of credits which are needed to perform on the music reality programme “Hot Shot”. This gives Abi a chance to not only share her talent with the world, but to possibly escape the monotony of everyday life. In our video Jessica sings "Anyone who knows what love is (will understand)"
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Albatross - Emilia
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia (Jessica Brown-Findlay), an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
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Released in Cinemas - 14th October 2011
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Brave New World - Lenina Crowne
In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
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Misfits - Rachel
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Lullaby (2014) - Karen
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Lullaby is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Andrew Levitas, and starring Garrett Hedlund, Richard Jenkins, Anne Archer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Amy Adams, Jessica Barden, Terrence Howard, and Jennifer Hudson.The movie explores all the right to die issues of a cancer stricken father who has decided to stop all medication and turn off the life support machines. One sees how the Jewish family members respond to each other and how the father says goodbye to his wife, son, and daughter.
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The Monster Family / Happy Family (2017) - The Voice of 'Fay'
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Labyrinth - Alias Pelletier du Mas
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The Banishing - West End Films 2019
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Aftertaste - Moll
A short Horror film (2020) featuring jessica brown Findlay as Moll
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The Hanging Sun - Lea
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Life after Life - Izzie
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Flatshare - Tiffy
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Razorlight : Hostage of Love - Jessica Brown Findlay as The Girl
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Jessica stars in Razorlight's 2009 pop video Hostage of Love
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Elizabeth McKenna
Video Credits - Hollywood News (You Tube)
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Hero - Lily Laine
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Munich = The Edge of War - Pamela Legat
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Jessica on Stage and in Theatre
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Jessica makes Theatre Debut as Electra in Oresteia at London's Almeida Theatre
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Uncle Vanya at The Almeida Theatre (2016) - Sonya
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Hamlet at The Almeida Theatre (2016) - Ophelia
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Magazine Photoshoots
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Jessica Brown Findlay
