Downton Abbey - Mary Crawley/Michelle Dockery #2 - Always ask yourself, what would Lady Mary do ?

EndlessღLove · 08-19-2012, 01:47 PM

Welcome to the {2nd}
Mary Crawley ||Michelle Dockery
Appreciation Thread

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Mary Josephine Crawley the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Grantham. She was born in 1892. In the first episode, the news of the deaths of her two cousins, James and Patrick, is a shock to her because it disrupts the family's strategy for dealing with the entail that requires the estate, incorporating her mother's large marriage settlement, as well as the title to pass to male heirs. The family had arranged that Mary would marry Patrick, second in line to the title after James, but Mary did not have strong feelings for him and questions whether she must even wear mourning. Early on in the series, she is seduced by a visitor to the house, Ottoman attaché Kamel Pamuk, who suddenly dies in her bed. Her infuriated mother and the housemaid Anna help her carry his body out of her room and back to his own in order to try to prevent a public scandal that would ruin her marriage prospects.

Mary's relationship with the new heir, distant cousin Matthew Crawley, begins coldly as she overhears him complaining to his mother that he expects the family will "throw" the daughters at him. Over time, however, the pair grow closer and a romance develops. In 1914, Matthew Crawley asks Mary to marry him, but she is cautious and says she won't give him an answer until the end of the London Season in August. However her mother becomes pregnant, and if the baby is a boy, he will inherit the title instead of Matthew, so Mary refuses Matthew on the advice of her aunt, Lady Rosamond. Matthew is quick to grasp her reasoning and leaves Downton for a time. While he is away, Mary gets engaged to Sir Richard Carlisle, a newspaper magnate who, when Mary confesses to it and asks for his assistance, promises to help keep the Pamuk affair under wraps. They plan to marry in July 1919, after the marriage of Matthew and his new fiancée Lavinia, and to move to a neighbouring, stately home that Sir Richard plans to buy. After Lavinia's death, it becomes clear that Matthew and Mary still have feelings for each other. In 1920, Mary breaks off the engagement to Sir Richard and initially agrees to move to America to live with her grandmother and maid Anna. However, Matthew again proposes to her on bended knee, and the two get engaged.

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Dockery is the youngest of three daughters of Michael Dockery, a native of Athlone, Ireland, who worked his way up from driving a van to becoming a surveyor, and his wife Lorraine, is from Stepney, East London. After working as a driver, in his 50s, her father graduated in occupational hygiene and qualified as an environmental analyst, becoming the first person to survey the British bases in Antarctica. Dockery's great-grandmother Maud Malyon was born in 1910 in Newham, East London, and was a domestic servant. She was just 17 when she married grocer’s assistant William Henry Oakman, 18, at West Ham Register Office.

She was born and brought up in Romford, East London. She was educated first at the Chadwell Heath Foundation School in Chadwell Heath, later known as Chadwell Heath Academy. She was then trained at the Finch Stage School. At the age of 18, with two A-levels, she won a place at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). She graduated from London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2004.

She 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. 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.

She appeared in Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. 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 2010, she played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Crucible Theatre alongside John Simm.

Dockery made her television debut as Betty in Fingersmith in 2005.

In 2006, she starred as Susan Sto Helit in a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel Hogfather.

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 2009, she appeared in the two-part Cranford Christmas special for the BBC, and starred as the lead character in a modernised BBC adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.

She came to public prominence in 2010 when she played Lady Mary Crawley in Julian Fellowes' series Downton Abbey, the first season of which was screened on ITV between September and November 2010. She was nominated for a Southbank Award in January for Best Breakthrough Performance in a TV drama. A second series of Downton Abbey was shown in 2011, followed by a special Christmas Day episode, and a third series has been commissioned for broadcast in September 2012.

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"Haven't you heard ? I don't have a heart
Season 1 - Episode 4

"The truth is we're very much alike, so naturally I think she's perfect."
Season 2 - Episode 3

"Well there you are then. One day you'll meet
someone else and you'll marry. Perhaps it'll be
second best, but it doesn't mean you can't have a life."
Season 2 - Episode 2

"Why must she be so savage? It's my broken
heart and it was her advice that wrecked it in the first place."
Season 2 - Episode 3

"You should learn to forget what I say. I know I do."
Season 1 - Episode 4

"Dear Lord, I don't pretend to have much credit with you.
I'm not even sure that you're there.But if you are, and if
I've ever done anything good, I beg you to keep him safe."
Season 2 - Episode 1

"I'm not much good at hanging back I'm afraid. I won't get
in your way I promise. But I will stay. You have volunteers
don't you? Well, that's what I am. A volunteer."
Seson 2 - Episode 5

michelledockery.org
****yeahmichelledockery.tumblr.com (remove the **** and add fu.ck)
michelle-dockery.net/
IMDB
michelledockeryfan.blogspot.com.ar/
downtonline.com/
Wikipedia

Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery Talks Fashion
Michelle Dockery Wins Cosmopolitan's Ultimate Newcomer Award (2011)
TIME Style and Design: Tom Hiddleston and Michelle Dockery
Michelle Dockery's accent

#1 Haven't you heard ? I don't have a heart

"I think you're fweaky and I like you a lot!"

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-19-2012, 02:02 PM

TFTNT Eug!

Re-posting the Harper's Bazaar photoshoot here.

EndlessღLove · 08-19-2012, 02:07 PM

You're welcome !

And btw, who designed the clothes she is wearing ?

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And the new gifs makes me want to update the OP as well.

THIS!

I would love to do something nice for all the OPs but it's better to wait until we get the customization

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-19-2012, 02:33 PM

True but that would take months, maybe next year. Feel free to update the OP when you want to, we definitely need some more arts and some videos too. I can help finding some if you have ideas.

Oh and btw, she's wearing Tom Ford in that shoot.

EndlessღLove · 08-19-2012, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by L i N d $ @ y (View Post)

True but that would take months, maybe next year. Feel free to update the OP when you want to, we definitely need some more arts and some videos too. I can help finding some if you have ideas.

I absolutely love doing OPs, really, I enjoy it very much, so if it will take that long I can start now and then update them again when we get the customization

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Oh and btw, she's wearing Tom Ford in that shoot.

Love it !

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-19-2012, 02:47 PM

For videos, we can add these:

THE LOOK: Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery Talks Fashion - YouTube
Michelle Dockery Wins Cosmopolitan's Ultimate Newcomer Award (2011) - YouTube
TIME Style and Design: Tom Hiddleston and Michelle Dockery.flv - YouTube

ScarletCourt · 08-19-2012, 02:50 PM

Tftnt!

EndlessღLove · 08-19-2012, 03:00 PM

Thanks, I will start working on it

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-19-2012, 03:11 PM

No rush, of course. Also, I'll work on updating the OP after I'm done with the M/M SG. I'm trying to limit to 10 and it's not working.

EndlessღLove · 08-19-2012, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by L i N d $ @ y (View Post)

I'm trying to limit to 10 and it's not working.

It's a really hard job

I wouldn't be able to do it

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-19-2012, 03:39 PM

And I need lots of time. Muti-tasking online is hard, I swear.

Btw, here's the Harper's Bazaar link which includes a very lengthy interview of Michelle: Michelle Dockery Interview - Michelle Dockery Quotes on Downton Abbey and Fashion - Harper's BAZAAR

And another article from Variety:

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These year’s group of characters portrayed by Emmy-nominated leading ladies are unique — determined, focused, eccentric, and increasingly mistresses of their own fate. And audiences can’t get enough of them.

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For Michelle Dockery, who portrays Lady Mary Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” her character is appealing to a mass audience. The reason is that while money means little to the wealthy aristocrat, it’s her human frailty that resonates.

“People can in some way relate to her, because she’s not perfect,” says Dockery. “The journey she’s gone on, she’s become a very well-rounded person.”

Passion and power perfs pop - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 08-24-2012, 07:46 PM

On Thursday, October 25th, Michelle will be attending “The Diversity Role Models Carnival” which supports the “mission to tackle homophobic bullying in schools.”

Location: Paramount at Centre Point, Oxford Street, WC1.

Time: 7:30pm – Midnight

Theme: Celebrating Diversity

We look forward to welcoming you to a fun filled evening with celebrity-hosted carnival stalls and vocal performances from Alison Moyet and others.

Enjoy an evening of champagne and canapés in the company of a host of celebrity guests such as Lily Allen, Michelle Dockery, Boy George and Charlie Condou.

http://www.diversityrolemodels.org/t...-carnival.aspx

EndlessღLove · 08-25-2012, 04:41 AM

Thanks Lindsay, I am so glad she is doing it !

ScarletCourt · 08-25-2012, 06:19 AM

Eug: Lovely pics! Where are they from? I've seen some of them before but not all of them.

EndlessღLove · 08-25-2012, 01:22 PM

You're welcome !

HER PERFECT FACE

Guess what she was looking at ?


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