Michelle Dockery Bio, Age, Fiance, Awards, Movies and TV Shows

Michelle Dockery Biography

Michelle Dockery (Michelle Suzanne Dockery) is an English actress and singer known for her leading performance as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (U.S.) television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–15).

Dockery made her professional stage debut in His Dark Materials in 2004. Due to her role as Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 London revival of Pygmalion, she was nominated for the Evening Standard Award. For her Character in the 2009 play Burnt by the Sun, she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Dockery has also had starring roles in films, such as Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012) and Non-Stop (2014).

On television, Dockery played lead roles on the drama series Good Behavior and the Netflix miniseries Godless, for which she received her fourth Emmy nomination.

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Michelle Dockery Age

Dockery was born on December 15, 1981, Rush Green, London, England. She is 37 years old as of December 2018.

Michelle Dockery Family

Dockery was born and raised by her parents Lorraine and Michael Francis Dockery alongside her two elder sisters Louise and Joanne Dockery. She was born at Rush Green Hospital in Rush Green, London but grew up in Romford, in East London.

Michelle Dockery Dating / Fiance

Dockery began a relationship with John Dineen, from Waterfall, Ireland, in 2013. They had been introduced to each other, then a public relations director at FTI Consulting in London, by Irish actor Allen Leech, who starred along with Dockery in Downton Abbey.

The couple were first seen together when they were on holiday in Venice, Italy, during the 2013 Venice International Film Festival. The couple made headlines in 2015, when it was reported that they were engaged, with Dockery showing off an engagement ring to her co-stars during screen tests.

Dineen died from a rare form of cancer on 13 December 2015, at age 34, in Marymount Hospice in Cork, with Dockery at his bedside.

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” and “Home is wherever I’m working at the moment.” “I just enjoy acting, whatever area – theatre, film, television.”

Michelle Dockery Career

Dockery was a member of the National Youth Theatre. She made her professional debut in 2004 in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre. In 2006, she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for her work as Dina Dorf in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre. She also appeared in Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre, for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

She won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Eliza Doolittle in Peter Hall’s production of Pygmalion at the Theatre Royal, Bath, which toured the UK and transferred to The Old Vic in 2008, and for the same production, she was nominated Best Newcomer at the Evening Standard Awards 2008.

In 2010, she played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Crucible Theatre alongside John Simm.

Dockery made her television first appearance as Betty in Fingersmith in 2005. In 2006, she starred as Susan Sto Helit in a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel Hogfather. In 2008, Dockery portrayed Kathryn in Channel 4’s The Red Riding Trilogy and played the guest lead role of a tormented rape victim Gemma Morrison in BBC’s Waking the Dead.

In 2009, she appeared in the two-part Cranford Christmas special for the BBC, and she also starred as the lead role, as the young governess, in a modernized BBC adaptation of The Turn of the Screw with her future Downton Abbey co-star Dan Stevens, in the role of her psychiatrist.

Dockery became noticeable to the public in 2010 when she played Lady Mary Crawley in Julian Fellowes’ series Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey was filmed from February–August 2010-15. The series was broadcast on ITV September–November, with a special Christmas night episode for Series 2-6 in 2011-15, with a later airing schedule in the U.S. for PBS.

Due to her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the Downton Abbey series, Dockery received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations in the category for Outstanding Lead Actress In Drama Series – 2012, 2013, and 2014. She also earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2013.

Dockery’s first big screen role was as False Marissa in Hanna (2011). In 2012, she appeared as Princess Myagkaya in the film adaptation of Anna Karenina and starred with Charlotte Rampling in a two-part dramatization of William Boyd’s spy thriller Restless on BBC One. In January 2014, she appeared in the action thriller feature film Non-Stop opposite co-stars Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, and Lupita Nyong’o.

In 2014, Dockery was made Fellow of the Guildhall School in recognition of her achievements in television. In 2014, Dockery was listed in The Sunday Times Britain’s 500 Most Influential People, which is a compilation of the most significant individuals in the UK who have demonstrated outstanding qualities of influence, achievement, and inspiration.

A departure from her character as Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, Dockery advanced her Hollywood career with a 2015 performance in sci-fi thriller feature film Self/less with Ryan Reynolds.

Beginning in November 2016, Dockery stars in the lead role of Letty Raines in Good Behavior, an American drama series based on the novella series by Blake Crouch. Letty is a drug-addicted thief and con-artist who, released early from prison on good behavior, is attempting to get her life under control. This is complicated by a chance meeting and subsequent entanglement with a charismatic hitman, played by Juan Diego Botto. The 10-episode first season, airing on U.S. basic-cable network TNT, was filmed in and around Wilmington, North Carolina. In January 2017, the show was picked up for season two. In November 2018, the series was canceled after two seasons.

In 2017, Dockery starred opposite Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, and Emily Mortimer in the British film The Sense of an Ending from CBS Films, based on the Booker-winning novel of the same name by Julian Barnes. She plays Susie Webster, the daughter of Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent), a man who lives in quiet unquestioning solitude until he confronts secrets of his past. “The film is a beautiful adaptation of the book which I love. And I jumped at the chance to work with director Ritesh Batra, who also filmed The Lunchbox (2013)”, explains Dockery.

Later that year (2017), Dockery played a lead role in the Netflix western miniseries Godless.

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