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Michelle Dockery
Romford, Essex, England, UK
Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress. She is best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey…
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Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress. She is best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised her role in the films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dockery made her professional stage debut in His Dark Materials in 2004. For her role as Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 London revival of Pygmalion, she was nominated for the Evening Standard Award. For her role in the 2009 play Burnt by the Sun, she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Dockery has appeared in the films Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Non-Stop (2014), and The Gentlemen (2019). She has also played lead roles in the western miniseries Godless (2017), for which she received her fourth Emmy nomination, and the drama miniseries Defending Jacob (2020) and Anatomy of a Scandal (2022). She attended the Finch Stage School, and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2004
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2025
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Movie Lady Mary
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2025
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
Movie Self
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2025
Please Don't Feed the Children
Movie Clara
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2025
Flight Risk
Movie Madolyn Harris
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2024
Here
Movie Pauline Harter
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2024
Boy Kills World
Movie Melanie Van Der Koy
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2024
This Town
TV show Estella Williams
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2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Movie Mary Crawley
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2022
Anatomy of a Scandal
TV show Kate Woodcroft
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2020
Defending Jacob
TV show Laurie Barber
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2019
The Gentlemen
Movie Rosalind Pearson
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2019
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
Movie Self
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2019
Downton Abbey
Movie Mary Crawley
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2018
Wimbledon 2018 - Official Film Review
Movie Narrator
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2017
Godless
TV show Alice Fletcher
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2017
The Sense of an Ending
Movie Susie Webster
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2016
Good Behavior
TV show Letty Dobesh
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2016
Angie Tribeca
TV show Victoria Nova
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2015
Many Beautiful Things
Movie Lilias Trotter (voice)
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Self/less
Movie Claire
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2015
Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands
TV show Herself - Narrator
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2014
Non-Stop
Movie Nancy
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2014
Tough Justice
Movie Connie Tough
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2012
Restless
TV show Ruth Gilmartin
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2012
Anna Karenina
Movie Princess Myagkaya
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2012
The Hollow Crown
TV show Kate Percy
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2012
Out of Time
Movie Christine
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2011
Shades of Beige
Movie Jodie
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2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV show Self
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2011
Hanna
Movie False Marissa
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2010
Downton Abbey
TV show Mary Crawley
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2009
The Turn of the Screw
Movie Ann
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2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Movie Kathryn Tyler
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2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Movie Kathryn Tyler
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Movie Ewa Rozenfeld
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2009
Red Riding
TV show Kathryn Tyler
