Jessica Brown Findlay

Jessica Brown-Findlay (born 14 September 1989) is an English actress. She plays the character of Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey.

Brown-Findlay trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet. Aged 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.

Jessica attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, Brown-Findlay 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. She attended for two years and in her second year had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong. Waking up from the anaesthetic, she was told she couldn’t dance anymore.

After encouragement from an art teacher, she applied for and got onto a Fine Art course at St Martin’s. While there, she took up acting classes. After being seen by a casting agent, she was cast in the lead role of Emelia in the film Albatross, directed by Niall MacCormick. She was subsequently cast in an episode of the E4 programme Misfits and in Downton Abbey.

[edit] Filmography Year Film Role Notes 2009 Misfits Rachel TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.6") Man on a Motorcycle Girl in bed short 2010–present Downton Abbey Lady Sybil Crawley TV series 2011 Albatross Emelia Film - first lead role [edit] References

1. ^ a b c "Downton Abbey Press Pack". ITV. http://www.itv.com/documents/pdf/DOWNTON_ABBEY_PRESS_PACK.pdf. 

[edit] External links

• Jessica Brown-Findlay at the Internet Movie Database

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(From Wikipedia. Gender: Female)

Actress:

• Victor Frankenstein
  2015, UK release: unknown
• The Riot Club
  2014, United Kingdom, UK release: 19 September 2014
• Lullaby (Lullaby (2014))
  2014, United States, UK release: 13 June 2014
• A New York Winter's Tale (Winter's Tale)
  2014, United States, UK release: 21 February 2014
• Albatross
  2011, United Kingdom, UK release: 14 October 2011

Colleagues of shooting:

Julia Ormond CinemaNX Felicity Jones Sebastian Koch Isle of Man Film Peter Vaughan Niall MacCormick Tamzin Rafn Warner Bros. Village Roadshow Pictures Will Smith Akiva Goldsman Akiva Goldsman Russell Crowe Jennifer Connelly Colin Farrell Weed Road Pictures Matt Bomer Will Smith Akiva Goldsman Russell Crowe Jennifer Connelly Colin Farrell Amy Adams Terrence Howard Andrew Levitas Andrew Levitas Richard Jenkins Jennifer Hudson Garrett Hedlund Anne Archer Avenue Pictures Ananta Productions Metalwork Pictures Tom Hollander Lone Scherfig Blueprint Pictures Max Irons Natalie Dormer Douglas Booth Holliday Grainger Sam Claflin Laura Wade Davis Entertainment Daniel Radcliffe James McAvoy Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Paul McGuigan Mary Shelley Max Landis Andrew Scott TSG Entertainment Mark Gatiss

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