1. Michelle Suzanne Dockery was born on 15 December 1981 and is an English actress.
25 Facts About Michelle Dockery
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Michelle Dockery is best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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Michelle Dockery reprised her role in the films Downton Abbey and Downton Abbey: A New Era.
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Michelle Dockery has appeared in the films Hanna, Anna Karenina, Non-Stop, and The Gentlemen.
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Michelle Dockery has played lead roles in the western miniseries Godless, for which she received her fourth Emmy nomination, and the drama miniseries Defending Jacob and Anatomy of a Scandal.
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Michelle Dockery is the daughter of Lorraine, a care home assistant from Stepney, England, and Michael Dockery, a lorry driver from Ireland.
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Michelle Dockery made her professional debut in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre in 2004.
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Michelle Dockery appeared in Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre, for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Michelle Dockery won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Eliza Doolittle in Peter Hall's production of Pygmalion at the Theatre Royal, Bath, which toured the UK and transferred to The Old Vic in 2008, and for the same production was nominated Best Newcomer at the Evening Standard Awards 2008.
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In 2006, Michelle Dockery starred as Susan Sto Helit in a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel Hogfather.
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Michelle Dockery came to public prominence in 2010 when she played Lady Mary Crawley in Julian Fellowes' series Downton Abbey.
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In 2014, Michelle Dockery was made Fellow of the Guildhall School in recognition of her achievements in television.
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In 2014, Michelle Dockery was listed in The Sunday Times Britain's 500 Most Influential People, which is a compilation of the most significant individuals in the UK who have demonstrated outstanding qualities of influence, achievement and inspiration.
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Michelle Dockery's efforts are complicated by a chance meeting and subsequent entanglement with a charismatic hitman, played by Juan Diego Botto.
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In 2017, Michelle Dockery appeared alongside Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, and Emily Mortimer in the British film The Sense of an Ending from CBS Films, based on the Booker-winning novel of the same name by Julian Barnes.
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Michelle Dockery plays Susie Webster, the daughter of Tony Webster, a man who lives in quiet unquestioning solitude until he confronts secrets of his past.
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Later that year, Michelle Dockery had a lead role in the Netflix western miniseries Godless.
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In 2019, Michelle Dockery reprised her lead role as Lady Mary Crawley in the Downton Abbey film, alongside Hugh Bonneville and Maggie Smith.
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Later in 2019, Michelle Dockery appeared in The Gentlemen, directed by Guy Ritchie, as the wife of a drug baron played by Matthew McConaughey.
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Michelle Dockery sang at the 50th Anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London and has occasionally sung with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern, who played her mother in Downton Abbey.
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Michelle Dockery is a patron of Changing Faces, as well as other charities.
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In 2014, Michelle Dockery was one of nine British celebrities featured in a short film promoting Stand Up to Cancer UK.
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Michelle Dockery began a relationship with John Dineen, from Waterfall, Ireland, in 2013.
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Michelle Dockery had been introduced to Dineen, then a public relations director at FTI Consulting in London, by Irish actor Allen Leech, who appeared alongside Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey.
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Michelle Dockery began a relationship with Jasper Waller-Bridge, brother of Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, in 2019.