Acting
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
Also known as | Michelle Suzanne Dockery |
Popular as | Acting |
Gender | FEMALE |
Birthday | December 15, 1981 (43 years old) |
Year | Movie & Role |
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2025 | Please Don't Feed the Children as Clara |
2025 | Flight Risk as Madolyn |
2025 | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Mary Crawley |
2024 | Boy Kills World as Melanie Van Der Koy |
2024 | Here as Pauline Harter |
2019 | Downton Abbey as Mary Crawley |
2018 | Wimbledon 2018 - Official Film Review as Narrator |
2017 | The Sense of an Ending as Susie Webster |
2015 | Self/less as Claire |
2015 | Many Beautiful Things as Lilias Trotter (voice) |
2014 | Non-Stop as Nancy |
2012 | Anna Karenina as Princess Myagkaya |
2012 | Out of Time as Christine |
2011 | Hanna as False Marissa |
2009 | The Turn of the Screw as Ann |
2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 as Kathryn Tyler |
2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 as Kathryn Tyler |
2008 | Poppy Shakespeare as Dawn |
2007 | Hogfather as Susan |
2007 | Consent as |