Michelle Dockery trivia: 37 facts about the “Downton Abbey” star

Michelle Dockery is an English actress. She is best known for portraying Lady Mary Crawley in the hit TV series “Downton Abbey”.

So let’s dive into some amazing trivia and facts about her life and career.

1. Her full name is Michelle Suzanne Dockery
2. She was born on 15 December 1981
3. She is an English actress
4. She is best known for her leading performance as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey
5. For the role she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
6. Dockery made her professional stage debut in His Dark Materials in 2004
7. For her role as Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 London revival of Pygmalion, she was nominated for the Evening Standard Award
8. For her role in the 2009 play Burnt by the Sun, she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress
9. Dockery has appeared in the films Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012) and Non-Stop (2014)
10. On television, Dockery has also played lead roles on the drama series Good Behavior and the Netflix miniseries Godless
11. For the later, she received her fourth Emmy nomination
12. Michelle Dockery was born at Rush Green Hospital in Rush Green, Essex
13. She grew up in Romford, in Essex, and she still has traces of an Estuary accent
14. She says, “I’ll never sound like Lady Mary, although my Essex accent has softened over the years. But it comes back if I’ve had a couple of drinks or if I am around my family”
15. Dockery has two older sisters, Louise and Joanne
16. She was educated first at Chadwell Heath Academy
17. She later studied at the Finch Stage School
18. Dockery confirmed in a 2017 interview with Parade that if you asked her parents when she began performing they would answer that it was when she was 2 or 3 years old
19. She remembers being 9 and performing for family members when they came to visit
20. After her A Levels, she enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
21. There she was awarded the Gold Medal for Drama at her graduation in 2004
22. On World Humanitarian Day 2014, Oxfam announced Dockery as its first ever Humanitarian Ambassador
23. Michelle Dockery is also a patron of Changing Faces
24. She supports a host of other charities
25. In 2014, Dockery was one of nine British celebrities featured in a short film promoting Stand Up to Cancer UK
26. Dockery started a relationship with John Dineen, from Waterfall, Ireland, in 2013
27. The actress had been introduced to Dineen, then a public relations director at FTI Consulting in London, by Irish actor Allen Leech
28. Leech was quoted as saying “John’s like family to me and I knew he’d really get on with Michelle. She’s a great girl – probably as far from Lady Mary as you could imagine”
29. The couple were first pictured together when they were on holiday in Venice, Italy, during the 2013 Venice International Film Festival
30. The couple made headlines in 2015
31. Then it was reported that they were engaged
32. With Dockery showing off a diamond ring to her co-stars during screen tests
33. But they guarded their privacy closely, with Dockery only briefly referencing, in an interview in 2013
34. In an interview in November 2015, she mentioned “I’ve got people around me who I can turn to for advice: my mum, and my partner, John”
35. Dineen died from a rare form of cancer on 13 December 2015, at age 34, in Marymount Hospice in Cork
36. With Dockery at his bedside
37. In 2016, Dockery stated that her fiancé’s death was not something she wanted to talk about, but she allowed that acting served as a “release”