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Michelle Dockery

Michelle Dockery was born on the 15th December 15 in 1981 in Essex.She trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and graduated in July 2004.
She made her professional debut in a minor role in His Dark Materials as Jessie and the understudy called Lyra at the Royal National Theatre. In 2006 she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for her performance in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre as Dina.
Michelle 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 The Old Vic on May 7, 2008.
Michelle has had roles in The UN Inspector, Fingersmith as Betty opposite Imelda Staunton, Charles Dance and Elaine Cassidy, Heartbeat as Sue Padgett in the episode entitled "Take Three Girls" and in an episode of Waking the Dead as Gemma.
Other roles include appearing in Consent with Daniel Mays, Daniel Ryan and Anna Madeley and in Dalziel And Pascoe as Aimee Hobbs alongside Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the episodes called Project Aphrodite: Part 1 and Project Aphrodite: Part 2.
Michelle has appeared in Dying For It as Kleopatra, Uncle Vanya as Yelena and in Poppy Shakespeare as Dawn with Naomie Harris and Tessa Peake-Jones (Raquel in Only Fools And Horses).
But perhaps Michelle's most notable role was that of Susan Sto Helit the children's governess who is also Death's granddaughter in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather alongside Ian Richardson, David Jason and Marc Warren.
Michelle has also starred in the Red Riding Quartet or on Lovefilm listed as The Red Riding Trilogy as Kathryn Tyler in the episode called Nineteen Seventy-Four with Sean Bean, David Morrissey and Kelly Freemantle and Michelle appears again in the episode called Nineteen Eighty-Three reprising her role of Kathryn Tyler alongside Mark Addy, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, Saskia Reeves and Daniel Mays.
Michelle has also appeared in Burnt By the Sun at The National Theatre.
She has also starred in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler as Eva Rozenfeld opposite Anna Paquin, Marcia Gay Harden, Nathaniel Parker and Paul Freeman.
Michelle has also starred as herself in The Whole Hog: Making Terry Pratchett's 'Hogfather'.
She has also starred in The Turn Of The Screw as as the young governess called Ann opposite Sue Johnston and Mark Umbers and in Cranford as Erminia Whyte alongside Judi Dench, Lesley Manville, Julia Sawalha, Julia McKenzie and Imelda Staunton.

Filmography

Michelle Dockery - filmography

Downton Abbey - A Journey to the Highlands on DVD (2012)
Starring: Rob James-Collier, Dan Stevens, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Brian Kelly, Brian Percival, Andy Goddard
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The family receive a warm welcome at Duneagle Castle, visiting Rose and her parents in the Highlands. But there is no disguising the tensions between their hosts. Carson is determined to keep the servants back at Downton working hard, but with a country fair coming up, will some be tempted to push ..read more »

77% from 270 members

Downton Abbey - Series 3 - Blu-ray (3 discs) (2012)
Starring: Rob James-Collier, Dan Stevens, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Brian Kelly, Brian Percival
Certificate:
This third instalment of the Golden Globe and six time Emmy award-winning series sees the return of all the much-loved characters in the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey. As they face new challenges in the 1920s, the Crawley family and servants who work for them, remain inseparably interlinked - ..read more »

83% from 99 members

Downton Abbey - Series 3 (3 discs) on DVD (2012)
Starring: Rob James-Collier, Dan Stevens, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Brian Kelly, Brian Percival
Certificate:
This third instalment of the Golden Globe and six time Emmy award-winning series sees the return of all the much-loved characters in the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey. As they face new challenges in the 1920s, the Crawley family and servants who work for them, remain inseparably interlinked - ..read more »

82% from 400 members

Downton Abbey - A Journey to the Highlan... (2012)
Starring: Rob James-Collier, Dan Stevens, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Brian Kelly, Brian Percival, Andy Goddard
Certificate:
The family receive a warm welcome at Duneagle Castle, visiting Rose and her parents in the Highlands. But there is no disguising the tensions between their hosts. Carson is determined to keep the servants back at Downton working hard, but with a country fair coming up, will some be tempted to push ..read more »

77% from 70 members

Downton Abbey - Series 2 - Blu-ray (3 discs) (2011)
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael
Director: Ashley Pearce, Andy Goddard
Certificate:
Julian Fellowes' hit drama Downton Abbey returns to DVD for a second series with all the regular cast including Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt and Dan Stevens. Returning to Downton Abbey in 1916, we see the effects of The First World War on ..read more »

88% from 189 members

Hanna on DVD (2011)
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana
Director: Joe Wright
Certificate:
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Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all ..read more »

67% from 2,893 members

Hanna - Blu-ray (2011)
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana
Director: Joe Wright
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all ..read more »

69% from 1,448 member

Downton Abbey - Series 2 (4 discs) on DVD (2011)
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael
Director: Ashley Pearce, Andy Goddard
Certificate:
Julian Fellowes' hit drama Downton Abbey returns to DVD for a second series with all the regular cast including Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt and Dan Stevens. Returning to Downton Abbey in 1916, we see the effects of The First World War on ..read more »

88% from 478 members

Downton Abbey - Series 1 - Blu-ray (2010)
Starring: Dan Stevens, Hugh Bonneville, Lesley Nichol
Director: Brian Kelly, Ben Bolt, Brian Percival
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All seven episodes from the first series of the ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of World War One. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the ..read more »

88% from 207 members

Downton Abbey - Series 1 (3 discs) on DVD (2010)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern
Director: Brian Percival, Ben Bolt, Brian Kelly
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Downton is the home of the Crawleys, who have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms, library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as ..read more »

86% from 642 members

The Red Riding Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD (2009)
Starring: Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, Eddie Marson
Director: James Marsh, Anand Tucker, Julian Jarrold
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All three of the Channel 4 dramas - entitled '1974', '1980' and '1983' - based on the dark, disturbing novels by David Peace, which give a fictionalised account of the chilling events and police corruption surrounding the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. The films star some of Britain's finest acting ..read more »

70% from 4,205 members

Turn Of The Screw on DVD (2009)
Starring: Mark Umbers, Michelle Dockery, Sue Johnston
Director: Tim Fywell
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Feature-length BBC drama based on the ghost story novella by Henry James. Michelle Dockery stars as Ann, the naive and repressed young governess who arrives at a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora (Josef Lindsay and Eva Sayer). After several mysterious occurrences, Ann ..read more »

57% from 665 members