Michelle Dockery

Biography

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

Known For

Family Guy

American Dad!

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Graham Norton Show

The View

All Movies (28)

• Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale2025 · as Lady Mary
• Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale2025 · as Self
• Please Don't Feed the Children2025 · as Clara
• Flight Risk2025 · as Madolyn Harris
• Here2024 · as Pauline Harter
• Boy Kills World2024 · as Melanie Van Der Koy
• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022 · as Mary Crawley
• The Gentlemen2020 · as Rosalind Pearson
• Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event2019 · as Self
• Downton Abbey2019 · as Mary Crawley
• Wimbledon 2018 - Official Film Review2018 · as Narrator
• The Sense of an Ending2017 · as Susie Webster
• Many Beautiful Things2015 · as Lilias Trotter (voice)
• Self/less2015 · as Claire
• Non-Stop2014 · as Nancy
• Tough Justice2014 · as Connie Tough
• Anna Karenina2012 · as Princess Myagkaya
• Out of Time2012 · as Christine
• Shades of Beige2011 · as Jodie
• Hanna2011 · as False Marissa
• The Turn of the Screw2009 · as Ann
• Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19832009 · as Kathryn Tyler
• Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19742009 · as Kathryn Tyler
• The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler2009 · as Ewa Rozenfeld
• Poppy Shakespeare2008 · as Dawn
• Hogfather2007 · as Susan
• Consent2007
• The Queen of Fashion— · as Alexandra Shulman

All TV Shows (25)

• This Town2024 · as Estella Williams
• Anatomy of a Scandal2022 · as Kate Woodcroft
• Defending Jacob2020 · as Laurie Barber
• Godless2017 · as Alice Fletcher
• Good Behavior2016 · as Letty Dobesh
• Angie Tribeca2016 · as Victoria Nova
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands2015 · as Herself - Narrator
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Restless2012 · as Ruth Gilmartin
• The Hollow Crown2012 · as Kate Percy
• The Jonathan Ross Show2011 · as Self
• Downton Abbey2010 · as Mary Crawley
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• Red Riding2009 · as Kathryn Tyler
• Cranford2007 · as Erminia Whyte
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• Hogfather2006 · as Susan Sto Helit
• Fingersmith2005 · as Betty
• American Dad!2005 · as Narrator (voice)
• Waking the Dead2001 · as Gemma Morrison
• Family Guy1999 · as British Woman (voice)
• The View1997 · as Self
• Heartbeat1992 · as Sue Padgett