Played Lady Mary Crawley on Downton Abbey and portrayed Princess Myagkaya in the 2012 award-winning film Anna Karenina.
She studied at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she won the school's highest award.
After she began to be recognized in Manhattan, she realized Downtown Abbey was an international hit.
She has two older sisters: Joanne, who also worked as an Actress, and Louise who worked as a Teacher in Barcelona. She was engaged to John Dineen until he passed away due to a rare form of cancer in 2015.
She has said she can personally relate to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Seinfeld character, Elaine.
