Quite unintentionally, this site became dedicated to the complex and eccentric Michelle Dockery. My aim is to provide fresh material and perspective for her fans.
In the 'Michelle Dockery Professional Archive' link below you will find the most complete collection of her screen performances on the internet.
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Series One Interview with Michelle Dockery
Q: Why do you think the show will do so well internationally?
A: People abroad are fascinated by our history. Period dramas like Gosford Park have been an enormous success overseas and we hope that Downton Abbey will have the same appeal. The costumes and the way in which the characters speak will attract international audiences. It’s so different to most modern TV and films – it’s a very different world. It’s really colourful, and the plots are terrific.
Simon Curtis, Elizabeth McGovern and Julian Fellowes To Reunite for New Film.
With the principal cast of “Downton Abbey” already beginning to break up as they (particularly its younger stars) look for the next step up career-wise, you can forgive Julian Fellowes and some of his older cast-members for also pursuing other projects and setting themselves up for a life after ‘Downton,’ whenever that may come. And last week brought news that screenwriter Fellowes, who created the show, will reunite with Lady Grantham herself, Elizabeth McGovern, on the Fox Searchlight pic “The Chaperone.”
‘Downton Abbey’ producer Gareth Neame chats with Gold Derby editor Tom O’Neil
Remember that scene in Downton Abbey when Mary/Matthew kiss the night before their wedding and they agree to keep their eyes closed because it would be bad luck to “see each other before the wedding”?
Mary opened her eyes.
And now Matthew is dead.
Off screen Carmichael is close friends with Michelle Dockery who plays her sister Lady Mary, with whom she feuded bitterly in the first series. The two actresses live around the corner from each other. “I think with Mary that relationship is still there but it’s changing,” she says. “Michelle and I are great friends and we just love working together. It’s almost easier because there’s no half apology afterwards. I can call her a slut and mean it, sort of thing, as I did in the first series. We really laughed that day because there isn’t any part of me holding back. We respect each other as actors and we really give over to that, and then fall about laughing. “It’s very interesting what happens in series four because their relationship is what it is, and the things Mary goes through and Edith witnesses, it can’t in some way undo all the pain that is there, but it does interesting things to their relationship and it changes and evolves. I’m actually quite pleased that that spunkiness between them hasn’t completely disappeared.
Favorite Mary Crawley Moments Per-episode: episode 1 (series 1)
-“I always apologize when I’m in the wrong, it’s a habit of mine”
She should wear this outfit at the WHCD brunch tomorrow.
The Crawley Sisters
An anon asked for the Jonathan Ross Show with the Downton sisters interview where they had the animal hoods on. It’s at the very end after the Tom Cruise interview. There’s only a brief glimpse though.
There were some great high-res photos on DowntOnline before Carnival lawyers shut it down, grrr.
Elizabeth McGovern’s husband to direct Downton inspired film?
BBC Films is making The Buccaneers, and seeking director Simon Curtis - Elizabeth McGovern’s husband who is best known for My Week with Marilyn.
Based on the book that inspired Downton Abbey. Well played BBC, well played. Here’s the synopsis:
Set in the 1870s, five wealthy American girls are denied entry into New York Society because their parents’ money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful.
