Michelle Dockery

Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is a  Golden Globe- and  Emmy-nominated English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as  Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV drama series  Downton Abbey. For her role in a play  Burnt by the Sun she earned an  Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Some of her other notable stage credits are  Pygmalion,  The Pillars of Society and  Hamlet as  Ophelia.

Music
Dockery is a jazz singer. She sang at the 50th Anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in London and has occasionally sung with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern, who plays her mother in Downton Abbey.Dockery cites her musical influences as Peggy Lee, Melody Gardot and Billie Holiday in her more melancholy moods.

[edit] Personal life
Dockery lives in London.