Ethel Parks (played by Amy Nuttall) was the new maid introduced in the second series as Gwen's replacement. The weekly Downton Abbey: The Official Podcast will be hosted by Jacqueline Coley and Anita Rani and feature interviews with cast and creatives. Still, the character couldn't have been more than 14 or 15 at most. In the series three Christmas Special, he tries to call Jimmy off his aggressive streak towards Thomas, and then spends the rest of the episode talking about his interest in cooking. Because Alfred quickly becomes enamored with the new kitchen maid, Ivy Stuart, Jimmy also takes an interest. Violet, portrayed as a matriarchal figure and quick of wit despite her age, symbolises the "old world" and order of the preFirst World War days. Though Mary struggles to overcome her lingering grief about Matthew's death, she realises she loves Henry, and the two marry at the end of series six. However, this alliance does not last very long, as Edna is fired after she successfully seduces Tom Branson but is foiled in her effort to blackmail him into marrying her. In response to this, the Dowager Countess decides to ask Mrs Bryant in person if Ethel could have contact with Charlie. However, she eventually decides she does not want to marry any of them, providing a shock, especially for Tony. He leaves Downton, telling Carson in a letter that he has confessed to murdering Green in order to have Anna freed. Mary struggles to move past her grief, but after the discovery of a letter from Matthew stating he intended to name Mary his sole heiress, she recovers and begins helping her father and brother-in-law Tom manage the estate. [1] She was educated at Kinghorn Primary School, where she was the Kinghorn Gala Queen in her final year, and at Balwearie High School in Kirkcaldy. However, after James-Collier had filmed the first two episodes of the show the producers contacted his agent and asked if he would like to be optioned for the second and third series.[15]. Bates is forced to go to London and try to rationalize with her. They love to dislike her. In the Christmas special he is invited by Lord Grantham to the traditional Christmas shoot but repeatedly turns it down. Sharon Small (b. Thomas tells O'Brien that his father was a clockmaker. Though Prince Kuragin was subsequently released, he learned that his wife had been exiled a year before. She begins an affair with Major Charles Bryant (played by Daniel Pirrie) when he is being treated at Downton while it is a temporary convalescent home. In the second feature film, Daisy and Andy are married and both living on the farm with Mr Mason. Publicity Listings When the Crawleys manage to reduce Bates's sentence to life imprisonment, she decides to stay at Downton, although she vows that she will not rest until Bates is free. In the first film, he is six years old and plays with his younger half-sister Caroline, and first cousins Sybbie and Marigold. When Vera learns that her husband has a larger than expected inheritance after his mother's death, she arrives at Downton Abbey. In 1924, she meets, falls in love with, and marries Atticus Aldridge, the Jewish son of Lord and Lady Sinderby. Robert then asks him to dinner after Tom Branson expresses his wish to baptise his daughter Catholic like himself, a decision Robert opposes. Carson had expressed his concerns about Andrew's suitability after the gambling club incident, but Mrs Hughes, Barrow, and Daisy urge him to give Andrew a second chance. After Matthew dies in a car accident Molesley loses his job, moves in with his father and struggles to find work as a servant, forced to be a road construction worker and delivery boy. The two try to continue their lives; however, both find it difficult to look past what has happened. Her partner is a photographer named Dan Bridge. She is a widow as her husband died during the First World War. Anna worries that Mr Bates will have his revenge if her attacker's identity is ever revealed. The judge voids the divorce decree, with the result that Vera and John are still legally married. While participating in the "Albanian talks" he visits Downton as a guest, accompanying Evelyn Napier. The papers Lavinia stole inadvertently helped create the Marconi scandal. Henry Lang (played by Cal MacAninch) was Lord Grantham's valet in the absence of Mr Bates. At the end of series three, Jimmy is promoted to first footman, but he holds a grudge against Thomas into the Christmas Special. He would take on Downton footman Andy Parker as a farmhand, and at series end, would be pleased when Daisy would finally move to Yew Tree Farm with him at long last. Angry, she casts Jimmy off, and Jimmy laments to Thomas that the whole venture was a waste of time and money. January 1, 1967 Exposing the snobbery and machinations of a vanishing class system, this series chronicles events in the lives of the Crawley family and their servants. In 1922 he joins Violet and Isobel for lunch, later taking a walk with Isobel. By 1923, he still has not been found, but pieces of what happened to him are coming to light. Daisy 'guides' Mrs Patmore into suggesting to Mason that he would be welcome in her cottage, and that it would be best for all concerned. Some also appear in one or both of the film sequels: Downton Abbey (2019), and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). A distraught Bates along with Lady Mary is adamant that Anna will not be convicted or even go to trial. However, Mason becomes persnickety with the living conditions, which grates on the young couple. He has a stern, but fatherly, disposition over the servants. He also later mentions Jimmy to Phyllis Baxter in a bout of sadness and annoyance that he's gone. He is a recent war veteran and suffers from severe Combat Stress Reaction (CSR, or shell shock) that causes him to be very nervous and somewhat disconnected to his surroundings. Mary, claiming the emergency to be for herself, rushes Anna to London to see Ryder and manages to get there in time to save the baby. The Honourable Ephraim Atticus Aldridge (played by Matt Barber), more commonly known by his middle name, Atticus, is the son and heir of Lord and Lady Sinderby. Shortly after this, of her free will, Jane leaves service at Downton. Birthday By series four the love triangle is getting nowhere until Alfred decides to leave after catching Ivy kissing Jimmy. Nevertheless, Tony remains lukewarm about Mabel and seems keen on Mary. In series three, Edith and Anthony reconnect and are soon engaged. When he returns to Downton to attend a house party, his valet, Mr Green, rapes Anna. In the Great War, Ethel has trouble supporting herself and her son and Mrs Hughes helps her, acting as her friend and bringing her food. He threatens Mrs Hughes with leaving Downton in order to find out what is wrong with his wife. Most of the staff give him the cold shoulder, while Thomas and O'Brien try to get rid of him to further their own ends. Robert says they will do their best for Marigold for both Michael's and Edith's sake, while still keeping the truth confined to the family. He returns to Downton in 1922, clearly still interested in the recently widowed Mary. She is replaced in her position by Jane, a war widow. Gwen endears herself to the family by revealing that the late Lady Sybil had gone to great lengths to help Gwen become a secretary, and that Sybil's kindness had changed her life. She is best known as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ' DS Barbara Havers.. However, the pains are nothing to worry about, as it's just her body adjusting to the pregnancy. The king is later heard in a radio broadcast, voiced by Jon Glover. During a conversation with Bates, Anna tells him that something in her history could stack against her in a court case. She might be a familiar face to viewers, as her acting CV includes parts in Death in Paradise and Downton Abbey. Upon learning that her parents are dead, he offers to take her under his wing as a surrogate daughter, which she accepts, though reluctantly at the outset. In March 1913, he is diagnosed as suffering from dropsy of the heart and is certain to die. In 1912, she brings private papers of her uncle Jonathan Swire, a Liberal minister, to Sir Richard Carlisle since Sir Richard plans to financially ruin her father. Official Sites. She is the daughter of a farm-hand. She also refused to hand the police the ticket regarding Mr Bates's trip to London on the day Mr Green died, telling Lady Mary she could never condemn a man for defending his wife's honour against such a crime. She uses her position to curry favour with Lady Grantham to consolidate her influence, although her actions usually benefit them both. It takes Alfred too long to realise that Daisy was the better match, and only tries to approach her when he comes back to the Abbey after leaving for his cooking course. Bates is angered when Miss Baxter informs the police that he could have made it to London the day Green was killed, despite her making clear she could not swear on the evidence. While Barrow is away in America with Lord Grantham (as John Bates asked to be excused from the trip to remain with his wife), Baxter grows closer to Joseph Molesley, who treats her with respect. Occasionally her caring attitude may become even counterproductive, as when she advises that Daisy should not sacrifice that much of her spare time to try to self-educate herself, as she sees that hopes for that kind of lifestyle which would justify such efforts are set too high considering Daisy's chances to move in the social hierarchy of that era. Before going to Munich to begin his path to obtain German citizenship, he and Edith spend their last night together, making love for the first and last time. At five or six years old, in 1928, she has donned braids and runs to ask her mother play with her one warm day. Hugh MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire (played by Peter Egan), is a Scottish nobleman nicknamed "Shrimpie" and married to Susan, the niece of Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham. She is best friends with Mrs Patmore. Sharon is an actress from Glasgow and she has two teenage sons, Zac and Leo. His son Larry, who was once keen on Sybil, treats her husband Tom with rudeness and disrespect. At the end of the third series, Tom becomes the land agent for the estate at Violet's suggestion, owing to having grown up on a farm in Ireland. He informs Lady Grantham that he suspects the new nanny may be mistreating the children in some way. Who is The Bay actress Sharon Small? The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Mary offers to take Anna to London, paying for her to visit Dr Ryder, the doctor that had treated Mary for problems when she had trouble conceiving a child with Matthew. Elizabeth George, author of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries books, initially thought Sharon was too pretty to play Sgt. She is rescued (to her relatives' dismay) by black singer Jack Ross. She works unstintingly and unflaggingly to remedy what happened. 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