Gwen Harding (born Dawson) (played by Rose Leslie) was a housemaid at Downton. Distraught in believing that it is impossible for her to carry a child to term, Anna becomes upset, believing she had let Bates down. Tom struggles both with grief over Sybil's death in childbirth and with being accepted by the Crawleys and their servants as a new member of the Crawley family. Its actor Steven Robertson aka Sandy from BBC hit Shetland. By Michelle Marshall 09:17, Wed, Mar 1, 2023 | UPDATED: 09:17 . She says that she does not want to be in service for the rest of her life and often complains about her surroundings. At the end, he is seen playing football on the beach, while Thomas watches from a nearby chair. At Downton Abbey, he meets Violet again, who is shocked by his reappearance and what has happened to him. He is the husband of Cora, son of Violet, and father of Mary, Edith and Sybil. In episode 6 Anna begins to experience uncomfortable pains again and Bates insists he pay for her to see Ryder again. Bates is suspicious that the attacker could be Mr Green, valet of Lord Gillingham. In the first film, he is six years old and plays with his younger half-sister Caroline, and first cousins Sybbie and Marigold. Actress: About a Boy. She tells Anna that she remembers Vera had dried food under her fingernails, meaning that Vera made the pie herself knowing that her husband would be implicated for murder. Violet Crawley (The Dowager Countess of Grantham) (played by Maggie Smith) (1841[1]-1928) is Robert's mother and widow of the previous earl. In 1922 he joins Violet and Isobel for lunch, later taking a walk with Isobel. William had three brothers and a sister but all died at or shortly after birth, leaving him as the only child. This helps Daisy drop any objections she has about their pairing. See full bio 1 nomination. Bates does not say much about his family or childhood, though he does mention that his late mother was Irish and he has a Scottish grandmother. George's father Matthew is killed in a car crash the day of George's birth. Her efforts are rewarded when her father-in-law is offered the tenancy of Yew Tree Farm, located in the Downton estate. 1886) is lady's maid to Lady Mary at Downton Abbey; previously she was first parlour maid and head housemaid. Mrs Hughes dismisses her after discovering the two of them in bed together, but Ethel shortly returns having nowhere else to go when she finds out she is pregnant with his child. Poor Alfred is used as a pawn in his aunt's scheming, which eventually comes to nothing. Isobel Grey (formerly Crawley, ne Turnbull), Lady Merton (played by Penelope Wilton) is Matthew's widowed mother. He cares not for what others will think of him for changing his citizenship (particularly when Britain only beat Germany in the Great War a few years previously), only of Edith's love. Pamuk rebuffs him and later uses this incident to blackmail Thomas, threatening to inform Lord Grantham about his indiscretion unless Thomas agrees to guide Pamuk to the room of Lady Mary later that same evening. He arrives at Downton before leaving to settle his cousin's affairs, and Edith accepts his proposal. During the Great War, she opened a soup kitchen at Crawley House, in secret, and was helped by Mrs Patmore and Daisy to run it from the money given by the government for the hospital. This eyesight problem is declared to be cataracts, the surgery for which is new and daunting to Mrs Patmore, but the operation is successful and she regains the full use of her eyesight. Despite the pains, Anna is fine, as her body is adjusting to pregnancy. Marigold Shore 1 episode, 2011 Julian Wadham . However, in the third series, Tom and now-pregnant Sybil are forced to flee Ireland after Tom becomes implicated in the burning of an Anglo-Irish nobleman's house. Nevertheless, he maintains a fascination with medicine. The brusque, domineering and nouveau riche Carlisle is a self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper magnate from Edinburgh whose paper, with the help of Lavinia Swire, was instrumental in breaking the Marconi scandal story. Lord Sinderby was said to have been opposed to his marriage to Rose while his wife accepts her because "her son's happiness is more important". 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. Sharon Small (b. Sharon Small: Marigold Shore: Lady Rosamund's maid: Christmas Special 2011: Charlie Anson: The Hon Larry Grey: Lord Merton's elder son: . Still being ignored by the rest of the staff save Anna, he gains an ally in William when he observes Thomas bullying the younger man, who is suffering with severe homesickness. . Finneran stated that the character "is a thoroughly despicable human being",[16] and that "People actually love that shes a nasty piece of work. In the second series Christmas episode, it is apparent that Carlisle's pragmatism does not sit well with the Crawleys and he and Mary begin to argue more frequently, much to the consternation of Matthew and her grandmother. His attitudes occasionally clash with that of the more progressive and pragmatic Cora. 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. She had one favourite brother who had shell shock and later died during the Great War. After Larry unremorsefully calls Tom "only a grubby little chauffeur chappie", Lord Merton angrily tells him to be silent, and apologises very sincerely to Tom for what Larry did, adding his hope that Tom would recover before the wedding. O'Brien is wracked with guilt, and following the incident, she becomes even more loyal and devoted to Cora. In the first film, she is seven years old and continues to be raised with her first cousins George and Caroline, at the estate. During the second series, he becomes an army surgeon after the outbreak of the Great War, and as a major becomes the military commander at Downton when the house becomes a convalescent hospital. The episode ends with Anna and Bates sharing a Happy Christmas alone. In the first film, Carson is called back to oversee the royal family's visit to Downton. Sir Richard Carlisle tricks Mrs Bates into selling the story, to save Mary and later threatens to expose her when she wants to break off their engagement. Lady Mary Josephine Talbot (ne Crawley) (played by Michelle Dockery) (b. Although convinced that there is no evidence for anything to happen, Anna is later arrested for Green's murder. He is the son of Bill Molesley, the winner of the best bloom at the Downton Flower Show in 1913. 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. Mrs Bryant, who had been unhappy abandoning Ethel from the start, agrees and Ethel leaves Mrs Crawley's employment. He later leaves Downton as he feels he is unfit for service. Creators: Julian Fellowes. Sharon Small . In the second series, William wanted to enlist in the Army but was forbidden by his father, as he was the only other surviving member of the family. She is the daughter of a farm-hand. This suspicion leads to Lady Grantham's discovering the nanny's cruelty to Sybbie Branson, resulting in her immediate sacking. Ryder informs Anna that he has identified the problem and that she has a common issue of having cervical incompetence, a condition which results in a baby becoming too heavy for the womb to support after about three months, but also tells her that the condition is easily treatable with cervical cerclage, a stitch inserted into the womb after a woman has been pregnant for about 12 weeks; however, it does not always work. Kemal Pamuk (played by Theo James) (d. 1913) was an attach at the Turkish Embassy in London and the son of one of the Ottoman Sultan's ministers. When she does, Alfred apologises to her, regretting being blinded by his infatuation for Ivy and failing to see how good and true Daisy had been to him. Thomas tries to remain calm, quietly asking if Jimmy might try writing. Lady Mary prepares a room for Anna and her husband in the main house so they can spend their wedding night together. He comes to dislike the new nanny for the two young children of Downton, and refuses to pass on her instructions to other members of staff. Amy Nuttall has been seen for the first time after it was reported her husband Andrew Buchan walked out on the Downton Abbey star. She is forced to accept defeat in this, not knowing that Lady Mary had already destroyed the ticket, as she wrongly believed it proved Bates's guilt. He meets Mrs Hughes at a fair in Downton after the death of Ivy and asked her a second time to marry him, giving her a parting gift of a small doll. When it is revealed the new valet, Henry Lang, had shell shock, she was uncharacteristically sympathetic towards him and it was revealed that her own brother suffered from it due to the War. They share a moment in which Jimmy exhibits some doubt about the plan, wondering if perhaps Lady Anstruther just wants to talk. More recently, Sharon was in medical thriller Trust Me, playing a character called Brigitte Rayne in the first series in 2017. 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. Sharon is an actress from Glasgow and she has two teenage sons, Zac and Leo. Early life. When the war ends, Thomas tries to make a profit by taking advantage of the nationwide rationing by selling goods on the black market. Anna is promoted from head housemaid to Lady's Maid to Mary during Bates's incarceration. The Archbishop of York and future Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang (Michael Culkin) marries Lady Mary Crawley and Matthew Crawley in the spring of 1920. He is forced to resign his job (Robert Crawley is not happy to learn this) against his will and return to live with her. 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