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
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.
strong roles female
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
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!
two eight dancer
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.
ipods kind endless
I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.
death thinking dying
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.
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.
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.
book laughing stories
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.
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.
way embarrassing should
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
jobs character work-out
On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.
girl character play
I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.
jobs attitude thinking
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.