March 5th, 2013 by Anna Howell. Tags: charles blake, dame kirii te kanawa, Dame Maggie Smith, dowager countess, Downton Abbey, duchess of yeovil, harriet wlater, joanna david, julian ovenden, Lady Mary, lady shackleton, lord anthony gillignham, Martha Levinson, michelle dockery, nigel harman, Shirley MacLaine, tom cullen
With all the recent chopping and changing of the Downton Abbey cast list, it has now been revealed that one face from last year who wasn’t expected to be returning, Shirley MacLaine, is set to reprise her role as Martha Levinson!
We reported last month how show bosses had expressed a desire for Hollywood actress MacLaine, who plays the modern-world embracing mother of Lady Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) to make a return in series 4 of the hit ITV period drama, but that her busy schedule probably meant that was unlikely.
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March 4th, 2013 by Anna Howell. Tags: chalres blake, Dan Stevens, dennis rickman, Downton Abbey, Eastenders, julian ovenden, Lady Mary, Letitia Dean, lord anthony gillignham, Matthew Crawley, michelle dockery, nigel harman, Sharon Rickman, tom cullen
After months of searching it would seem that bosses at Downton Abbey have finally found a suitable actor to play a new love interest for Lady Mary, but with three new male actors being cast, the question remains which one will be Mr Right?
Bosses at Downton Abbey confirmed earlier this year how, after the untimely death of Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens), his widow Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) would be finding a new male companion in the fourth series, which has just begun filming.
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