Lady Mary Crawley - Michelle Dockery
A native of Essex, England, Michelle Dockery wasn't born into the high life she so often portrays on screen and stage. While training at the Finch Stage School in the United Kingdom, she worked in a variety of jobs, from waitress to a role in the advertising department of The Times of London. After graduating from England's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2004, Michelle spent 14 months at London's National Theatre performing lesser roles before she landed her breakthrough role as Eliza Doolittle in Peter Hall's production of Pygmalion at The Old Vic, also in London.
Michelle also loves to sing and while filming Downton Abbey, she discovered that she and her on-screen mother, Elizabeth McGovern, shared a passion for music. This led to recording some tracks together and several festival appearances with McGovern's band Sadie and the Hotheads.
Michelle's other television credits include Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather, the British trilogy Red Riding, Return to Crandord and The Turn of the screw.
Michelle also loves to sing and while filming Downton Abbey, she discovered that she and her on-screen mother, Elizabeth McGovern, shared a passion for music. This led to recording some tracks together and several festival appearances with McGovern's band Sadie and the Hotheads.
Michelle's other television credits include Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather, the British trilogy Red Riding, Return to Crandord and The Turn of the screw.
Lady Mary Crawley. (Michelle Dockery) is Clever, good looking, hard. Mary had (just about) accepted that she was not to be, as she had imagined, an heiress, like her mother, while her cousins lived. On the arrival of the news of their deaths, she assumes she will now inherit. The realisation that she will not enrages her. Particularly when she learns that her father refuses to fight for her rights. Mary eventually realises that she loves Matthew and has always loved him but rejects his marriage proposal which she soon regrets.
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Mary and Matthew
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Return to Cranford - Erminia Whyte
The orphaned daughter of Mr Buxton's wife's sister and now his ward (and William's cousin), Erminia has lived abroad and has recently finished an expensive education in Brussels. She is pretty, musical and full of life. At first Erminia befriends Peggy Bell out of a sense of kindness and duty, but she quickly sees the true value of Peggy's character and they become firm friends.
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Good Behavior - Letty Raines
Letty Raines is a thief and con artist whose life is always one wrong turn, one bad decision, from implosion. Which is just how she likes it. Fresh out of prison, she's attempting to stay afloat. But when she overhears a hit man being hired to kill a man's wife, she sets out to derail the job, sending her on a wild collision course with the charming killer, and entangling them in a dangerous, seductive relationship.
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The Turn of the Screw - Ann
The Turn Of The Screw tells the story of a young governess, Ann (Michelle Dockery), who is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles (Josef Lindsay) and Flora (Eva Sayer).
Shortly after Ann begins her duties, Miles is expelled from boarding school for being "a threat to the other boys" and Ann fears that there is something else behind the expulsion. She is, however, too charmed by the adorable young boy to want to press the issue.
Ann starts to see the figures of a man and woman around the grounds of the estate. The figures come and go at will without ever being seen or challenged by other members of the household, and they seem to Ann to be supernatural.
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The Hogfather - Susan
The deranged assassin Mr Teatime has figured out a way to kill the Hogfather (think Santa but with porcine overtones). Knowing that without the Hogfather the sun will not rise, Death decides to boost the power of belief by impersonating the jolly fat man. Meanwhile, Death's adoptive grandaughter Susan (Michelle Dockery)takes it upon herself to stop Teatime's plans.
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Godless - Alice Fletcher
Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West, hunts down Roy Goode, his partner turned enemy. Roy hides out at a ranch as Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico - a town mysteriously made up almost entirely of women. Michelle stars as Alice Fletcher
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Michelle Dockery in "Holidays at Home " Advert
The much-anticipated - and controversial - advertising campaign to encourage Britons to holiday at home,
is now on our screens. The star-studded adverts, which feature Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery, Harry Potter's
Rupert Grint, as well as British icons Stephen Fry and Julie Walters, are part of a £5miilion campaign.
is now on our screens. The star-studded adverts, which feature Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery, Harry Potter's
Rupert Grint, as well as British icons Stephen Fry and Julie Walters, are part of a £5miilion campaign.
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Film and TV
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Anatomy of a Scandal |
Amphibia - (Voice) |
Downton Abbey: - A New Era |
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Stage and Theatre
Burnt by the Sun
Colonel Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule. I
Poised at the beginning of Stalin's Great Terror, Burnt by the Sun shows a brutal future encroaching on the last days of a fading world.
Peter Flannery adapts Nikita Mikhalkov's 1994 feature film which won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 67th Annual Academy Awards. Ciaran Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Michelle Dockery lead the cast.
Poised at the beginning of Stalin's Great Terror, Burnt by the Sun shows a brutal future encroaching on the last days of a fading world.
Peter Flannery adapts Nikita Mikhalkov's 1994 feature film which won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 67th Annual Academy Awards. Ciaran Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Michelle Dockery lead the cast.
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Pygmalion - Eliza Doolittle
The British Theatre Guide Review -A luminous Michelle Dockery in absolutely sparkling form steals the show in Sir Peter Hall's transfer from Bath. The young actress's accent in the early scenes tends towards comic-cockney. However after Eliza Doolittle the flower girl's miraculous transformation, Dockery, who recently played Yelena for this director in Uncle Vanya at the Rose in Kingston, shows rare comic timing coupled with great poise and sensitivity
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Michelle Dockery - Voice Overs
Multi Talented Michelle Dockery - Voice Overs - To Listen Click Audio Players below left
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Michelle Singing "The Folks Who Live On The Hill"
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