Michelle Dockery
Acting • Born 1981-12-15
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
Filmography
53 credits
Boy Kills World
Movie • 2024
Melanie Van Der Koy
Hogfather
Movie • 2007
Susan
Please Don't Feed the Children
Movie • 2025
Clara
The Turn of the Screw
Movie • 2009
Ann
Here
Movie • 2024
Pauline Harter
Hanna
Movie • 2011
False Marissa
Anna Karenina
Movie • 2012
Princess Myagkaya
Non-Stop
Movie • 2014
Nancy
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Movie • 2009
Kathryn Tyler
Flight Risk
Movie • 2025
Madolyn Harris
Self/less
Movie • 2015
Claire
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Movie • 2009
Kathryn Tyler
The Sense of an Ending
Movie • 2017
Susie Webster
Wimbledon 2018 - Official Film Review
Movie • 2018
Narrator
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Movie • 2025
Lady Mary
Out of Time
Movie • 2012
Christine
Many Beautiful Things
Movie • 2015
Lilias Trotter (voice)
Consent
Movie • 2007
Poppy Shakespeare
Movie • 2008
Dawn
Downton Abbey
Movie • 2019
Mary Crawley
The Gentlemen
Movie • 2020
Rosalind Pearson
Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
Movie • 2019
Self
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Movie • 2009
Ewa Rozenfeld
Shades of Beige
Movie • 2011
Jodie
Tough Justice
Movie • 2014
Connie Tough
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Movie • 2022
Mary Crawley
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
Movie • 2025
Self
The Queen of Fashion
Movie
Alexandra Shulman
Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands
TV • 2015
Herself - Narrator
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
Red Riding
TV • 2009
Kathryn Tyler
Downton Abbey
TV • 2010
Mary Crawley
Hogfather
TV • 2006
Susan Sto Helit
Family Guy
TV • 1999
British Woman (voice)
Good Behavior
TV • 2016
Letty Dobesh
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Gemma Morrison
Cranford
TV • 2007
Erminia Whyte
Anatomy of a Scandal
TV • 2022
Kate Woodcroft
Godless
TV • 2017
Alice Fletcher
Restless
TV • 2012
Ruth Gilmartin
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Fingersmith
TV • 2005
Betty
Angie Tribeca
TV • 2016
Victoria Nova
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Defending Jacob
TV • 2020
Laurie Barber
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Kate Percy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
This Town
TV • 2024
Estella Williams
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Sue Padgett
The View
TV • 1997
Self
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Narrator (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self