Michelle Dockery, Lady Mary of 'Downton Abbey', pregnant with her first child

BarcelonaMichelle Dockery, well known for her role as Lady Mary in the series Downton Abbey, is pregnant with her first child. The British actress made it public during the premiere of Downton Abbey: The grand finale, the latest film in the period drama in which she returns to play her most famous character. The news became clear when Dockery, 43, appeared in a sky blue suit that emphasized her baby bump.

The actress is married to Jasper Waller-Bridge, 35, a film producer and brother of actress and screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of Fleabag. The couple announced their engagement in 2022 through an official publication in the newspaper The Times. "The engagement is announced between Jasper Waller-Bridge - son of Michael Waller-Bridge of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and Teresa Waller-Bridge of Battersea, London - and Michelle Dockery, infant daughter of Michael and Lorraine Dockery of Gidea Park, Essex," the newspaper said. The couple married in September 2023 at a west London church and Laura Charmichael, who in Downton Abbey She plays Lady Mary's sister, Lady Edith, and served as her lady-in-waiting.

Coincidentally, a few weeks ago some photographs of Dockery's sister-in-law, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, emerged, which showed that the protagonist and creator of FleabagDockery, 40, is also pregnant.

Before meeting Jasper Waller-Bridge, Dockery was already engaged, but her partner, publicist John Dineen, He died in 2015 from a rare type of cancer.In an interview given two years after the death, Dockery explained to The Guardian who considered herself a "widow." "I refer to myself as a widow. We were engaged and married at heart, so I consider myself a widow. This is the first time I've said this, and I feel a certain relief in doing so," she explained. On that occasion, the actress also commented on how difficult it was for her to draw parallels between her personal story and that of the character she played in Downton Abbey, who also became a widow shortly after getting married. "It was disconcerting, and still is, that my character's story was so similar to mine."

Although the series Downton Abbey It's been a while since it aired its last episode, this summer the period fiction has become the big star of TV3's summer programming, which has bet on the afternoon slot, and has filled the gap of As if it were yesterday.