Michelle Dockery

ABOUT MICHELLE DOCKERY

Known for playing Lady Mary Crawley on Downton Abbey and Princess Myagkaya in the 2012 award-winning film Anna Karenina.

She studied at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she won the school's highest award.

After she began to be recognized in Manhattan, she realized Downton Abbey was an international hit.

She has two older sisters: Joanne, who also worked as an actress, and Louise who worked as a teacher in Barcelona. She was engaged to John Dineen until he passed away due to a rare form of cancer in 2015. She was engaged to Jasper Waller-Bridge in January 2022. They married in September 2023. In September 2025, they announced that they were expecting their first child together.

She has said she can personally relate to Julia Louis-Dreyfus 's Seinfeld character, Elaine.