In 2008, Dockery played Kathryn in Channel 4's The Red Riding Trilogy and played the guest lead of tormented rape victim Gemma Morrison in BBC s Waking the Dead. In 2006, she starred as Susan Sto Helit in a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel Hogfather. Televisionĭockery made her television debut as Betty in Fingersmith in 2005. In 2010, she played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Crucible Theatre alongside John Simm. 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 was nominated Best Newcomer at the Evening Standard Awards 2008. In 2006, she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for her performance as Dina Dorf in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre.ĭockery appeared in Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Theatreĭockery was a member of the National Youth Theatre, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she won the Gold Medal for drama and made her professional debut in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre in 2004. After her A Levels she enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating in 2004. She was then trained at the Finch Stage School. Malyon was 17 when she married Dockery's great-grandfather, grocer's assistant William Henry Oakman, 18, at West Ham Register Office.ĭockery was educated first at the Chadwell Heath Foundation School (now the Chadwell Heath Academy) in Chadwell Heath, Essex. Dockery's maternal great-grandmother, Maud Malyon, was born in 1910 in Newham, East London, and was a domestic servant. Her father, Michael Francis Dockery, was born at Athlone, Ireland, and worked his way up from driving a van to becoming a surveyor her mother, Lorraine (née Witton) is from Stepney, East London. She has two elder sisters, Louise and Joanne. Michelle Suzanne Dockery was born on 15 December 1981 in Rush Green Hospital, Dagenham, London. Some of her other notable stage credits are Pygmalion, The Pillars of Society and Hamlet as Ophelia. For her role in a play Burnt by the Sun she earned an Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She is best known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey. Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated English actress and singer.
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