Jessica Brown Findlay
| Jessica Brown Findlay | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jessica Rose Brown Findlay 13 September 1989 Cookham, Berkshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Jessica Rose Brown Findlay (born 13 September 1989) is an English actress, best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in the ITV series Downton Abbey and Emelia Conan Doyle in the British comedy-drama film Albatross. In 2014, she starred as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel Winter's Tale. The following year, she co-starred in Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein (2015).
Findlay lives in Cookham, Berkshire, where her mother is a teacher's assistant and her father is a financial adviser. Findlay trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet, and at age 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.
Findlay attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, she was accepted to a number of ballet schools but chose to go to the Arts Educational School, because of the A-level courses it provided and its pastoral care. Findlay attended for two years; in her second year, she had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong. After being told she could never dance again, Findlay decided to embark upon a career in acting, something she had always considered but had never tried. After encouragement from an art teacher, she finished her education at Arts Educational School, Tring Park and then moved on to a Fine Art course at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
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