- Jessica Brown-Findlay
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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.[1]
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.[1]
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.[1] She was subsequently cast in an episode of the E4 programme Misfits and in Downton Abbey.
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 References
External links
Categories:- British television actor, 1980s birth stubs
- 1989 births
- Living people
- People educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts
- Alumni of the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
- English actors
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