Jessica Brown Findlay
Jessica Brown Findlay
Jessica Rose Brown Findlay is an English actress, best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in the ITV series Downton Abbey and Emelia Conan Doyle in the British comedy-drama film Albatross. In 2014, she starred as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel Winter's Tale. The following year, she co-starred in Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth14 September 1989
africa experience extreme half lots months mud south sword work
We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It's very different from 'Downton' because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair - it's the other extreme of the look!
absolutely bit fine learnt older people playing quite relaxed roles shake younger
I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more.
period
You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.
corner dj found hear nor radio sandwich shattered shout shut starts watching
I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.
way embarrassing should
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
numbers three goes-on
Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.
jobs attitude thinking
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.
war grandmother nurse
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
acting emotion adore
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
death thinking dying
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.
ankles three problem
Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.
girl play interesting
Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.
beautiful cutting thinking
I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!
past blue house
I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.