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

• 2025Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale — Lady Mary
• 2025Flight Risk — Madolyn Harris
• 2025Please Don't Feed the Children — Clara
• 2024Boy Kills World — Melanie Van Der Koy
• 2024Here — Pauline Harter
• This Town — Estella Williams
• Anatomy of a Scandal — Kate Woodcroft
• 2022Downton Abbey: A New Era — Mary Crawley
• Defending Jacob — Laurie Barber
• 2020The Gentlemen — Rosalind Pearson
• 2019Downton Abbey — Mary Crawley
• 2018Wimbledon 2018 - Official Film Review — Narrator
• Godless — Alice Fletcher
• 2017The Sense of an Ending — Susie Webster
• Angie Tribeca — Victoria Nova
• Good Behavior — Letty Dobesh
• 2015Many Beautiful Things — Lilias Trotter (voice)
• 2015Self/less — Claire
• 2014Non-Stop — Nancy
• 2014Tough Justice — Connie Tough
• 2012Anna Karenina — Princess Myagkaya
• 2012Out of Time — Christine
• Restless — Ruth Gilmartin
• The Hollow Crown — Kate Percy
• 2011Hanna — False Marissa
• 2011Shades of Beige — Jodie
• Downton Abbey — Mary Crawley
• Red Riding — Kathryn Tyler
• 2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 — Kathryn Tyler
• 2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 — Kathryn Tyler
• 2009The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler — Ewa Rozenfeld
• 2009The Turn of the Screw — Ann
• 2008Poppy Shakespeare — Dawn
• 2007Consent
• Cranford — Erminia Whyte
• 2007Hogfather — Susan
• Hogfather — Susan Sto Helit
• American Dad! — Narrator (voice)
• Fingersmith — Betty
• Waking the Dead — Gemma Morrison
• Family Guy — British Woman (voice)
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Aimee Hobbs
• Heartbeat — Sue Padgett
• The Queen of Fashion — Alexandra Shulman

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2025Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale — Self
• 2019Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event — Self
• Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands — Herself - Narrator
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The View — Self