Michelle Dockery

Michelle Dockery
Dockery at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards
Born	Michelle Suzanne Dockery (1981-12-15) 15 December 1981 (age 35) Rush Green, London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	2004–present
Known for	Downton Abbey
Partner(s)	John Dineen (2013–2015; his death)

Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (U.S.) drama series Downton Abbey (2010–15), for which she was nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. She made her professional stage debut in His Dark Materials in 2004. For her role as Eliza Doolittle in the 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. Her other notable stage credits include Pillars of the Community (2005) and Hamlet (2010). She has also appeared in the films Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012) and Non-Stop (2014). As of late autumn 2016, Dockery is portraying the lead role of a drug-addicted, alcoholic, American con artist in the U.S. drama series Good Behavior on the U.S. basic-cable network TNT.

Dockery was born at Rush Green Hospital in Rush Green, London, to Lorraine (née Witton) and Michael Francis Dockery, a lorry driver and later an environmental analyst.