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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Please Don't Feed the Children
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Flight Risk
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Here
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2024
Boy Kills World
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2024
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2024
Downton Abbey: A New Era
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2022
Anatomy of a Scandal
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2022
Defending Jacob
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2020
The Gentlemen
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2020
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
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2019
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2019
Wimbledon 2018 - Official Film Review
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2018
Godless
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2017
The Sense of an Ending
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2017
Good Behavior
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2016
Angie Tribeca
Victoria Nova · (1 episode)
2016
Many Beautiful Things
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2015
Self/less
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2015
Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands
Herself - Narrator · (3 episodes)
2015
Non-Stop
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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2014
Tough Justice
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2014
Restless
Ruth Gilmartin · (2 episodes)
2012
Anna Karenina
Princess Myagkaya
2012
The Hollow Crown
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2012
Out of Time
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2012
Shades of Beige
Jodie
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · (1 episode)
2011
Hanna
False Marissa
2011
Downton Abbey
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2010
The Turn of the Screw
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2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2009
Red Riding
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2009
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Dawn
2008
Cranford
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2007
Hogfather
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2007
The Graham Norton Show
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2007
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2007
Hogfather
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2006
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2005
American Dad!
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2005
Waking the Dead
Gemma Morrison · (2 episodes)
2001
Family Guy
British Woman (voice) · (1 episode)
1999
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1997
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1992