Jessica Brown Findlay - wikipedia Jessica Brown Findlay Jessica Brown Findlay Jessica Rose Brown Findlay ( 1989 - 09 - 14 ) 14 September 1989 ( age 28 ) Cookham, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Occupation Actress Years active 2009 -- present Jessica Rose Brown Findlay ( born 14 September 1989 ) is an English actress, most widely known for her role as Lady Sybil Crawley in the ITV ( UK ) and PBS ( U.S. ) television period drama series Downton Abbey, and for her role as Emelia Conan Doyle in the 2011 British comedy - drama feature film Albatross. In 2014, she appeared as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel Winter 's Tale. In 2015, she co-starred in Paul McGuigan 's Victor Frankenstein as Lorelei, the Esmerelda - like acrobat. In 2016, she joined the cast of the new biopic feature film, England is Mine, about the early life and career of English singer Morrissey, who co-founded the indie rock band The Smiths. In 2017, Brown Findlay portrays Charlotte Wells, a madam 's daughter and prostitute, in Harlots, a period drama television series screening on ITV Encore in the U.K. and on Hulu Plus in the U.S. The TV series focuses on Margaret Wells, who runs a brothel in 18th century England and struggles to raise her daughters in a chaotic household. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 3.1 Film 3.2 Television 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links Early life Brown Findlay lives in Cookham, Berkshire, United Kingdom, where her mother is a teacher 's assistant and her father is a financial adviser. She stated to Vanity Fair in 2012, about how she spent her childhood in the small English village, that `` I grew up there, as did my Mum. My Nan and Granddad are around the corner. It is a very familiar place and incredibly dear to my heart. It 's sort of quiet, but wonderfully so ''. Brown Findlay trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet, and at age 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season. She attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, she was accepted to a number of ballet schools, but chose to go to the Arts Educational School, because of the A-level courses it provided and its pastoral care. Brown Findlay attended for two years ; in her second year, she had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong. After being told she could never dance again, Brown Findlay decided to embark upon a career in acting, something she had always considered but had never tried. After encouragement from an art teacher, she finished her education at Arts Educational School, Tring Park and then moved on to a Fine Art course at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. In a 2012 interview with Vanity Fair, Brown Findlay stated, `` Growing up, I was completely in love and infatuated with ballet. Ballet was my life completely ''. However, after three ankle operations, she was forced to leave dancing behind and ended up at university in London, where she discovered the stage, to which she says, `` Acting was the element from ballet that I actually loved and missed the most ''. Career Brown Findlay was cast in the lead role of seventeen year - old Emilia Conan Doyle for Albatross, a 2011 British coming - of - age comedy drama film directed by Niall MacCormick, co-starring Julia Ormond, Felicity Jones and Sebastian Koch. The film 's premise revolves around a teenage aspiring writer entering the lives of a dysfunctional family living in the south coast of England, with bookish young women meeting up with a peer who lacks any boundaries or inhibitions. Next, she was cast in two episodes of the British science fiction comedy - drama television show Misfits. Brown Findlay appeared in the first - season finale as a wholesome religious girl whose superpower is convincing everyone to abandon their delinquent behaviour in favour of celibacy. Almost immediately after shooting her first major role, in Albatross, Brown Findlay landed the role of Lady Sybil Crawley in the ITV period drama television series Downton Abbey, which became her breakthrough role, as the youngest of the Grantham daughters. In a 2012 interview with Vanity Fair, Brown Findlay stated, `` I thought this character of Sybil was fascinating, and I liked her modern attitude to life ''. Brown Findlay was the first major cast member to leave the series for pastures new, when her character, the forward thinking Lady Sybil, died in childbirth in the third series. During a 2015 interview, Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes, discussed the plot twist, `` Jessica ( Brown Findlay, who played Sybil, ) had said she was going to leave right from the beginning. She said, `` I 'm doing three years, then I 'm leaving '', So that was all worked out ``, Fellowes said of Lady Sybil 's death, which occurred shortly after she gave birth to her and Tom Branson 's baby daughter. She next appeared as Abi in the Black Mirror episode `` Fifteen Million Merits '' with English actor Daniel Kaluuya. The episode imagined a dystopian future where people earn merits on exercise bikes in order to audition for reality TV judges. In 2012, Brown Findlay became the face of Dominic Jones ' jewellery line, and she was cast in Not Another Happy Ending by John McKay, and in the miniseries Labyrinth, based on the novel of the same name written by Kate Mosse, portraying Alaïs Pelletier. In 2012, Brown Findlay was cast as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of the novel Winter 's Tale ( 2014 ) with Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe. Tim Burton considered Brown Findlay for the lead in his adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, but ultimately gave the role to Australian actress Mia Wasikowska. In March 2015, it was confirmed that she had been cast in the remake of The Crow, in which Brown Findlay portrayed Shelly. In July 2015, Brown Findlay played the role of the emotionally conflicted stepmother Alice Aldridge in The Outcast, the BBC 's two - part television adaptation of Sadie Jones ' novel. In May 2015, Brown Findlay made her theatre debut at the Almeida Theatre, London, as Electra in a new adaptation of The Oresteia to positive reviews. The production later transferred to the Trafalgar Theatre in London 's West End. The writer and director was Robert Icke, who cast Brown Findlay in his production of Uncle Vanya at the same venue in February of the following year. In September 2016, it was announced that she would play Ophelia in a new production of Hamlet at the Almeida Theatre in London. The production was critically acclaimed and later transferred to the West End, where it ran until September 2017 with award - winning `` Sherlock '' actor Andrew Scott as Hamlet. In 2016, she joined the cast of the biopic feature film, Steven, about the early life and career of English singer Morrissey, who co-founded the indie rock band The Smiths. The film premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2017, with `` Dunkirk '' actor Jack Lowden in the lead role. In 2017, Brown Findlay portrays Charlotte Wells. a brothel owner 's daughter and famed courtesan, in Harlots, a period drama television series created by Alison Newman and Moira Buffini. The series premiered on 27 March 2017 on ITV Encore in the U.K. and on 29 March 2017 on Hulu Plus in the U.S. The TV series focuses on Margaret Wells, who runs a brothel in 18th century England and struggles to raise her daughters in a chaotic household. The series is inspired by `` The Covent Garden Ladies '' by Hallie Rubenhold. The series has been renewed for a second season. 2017 also saw the debut of This Beautiful Fantastic, an indie film in which Brown - Findlay starred as Bella Brown, a repressed foundling who forms a new life through her relationships with a curmudgeonly neighbor ( Tom Wilkinson ), a gifted cook ( Andrew Scott ) and an eccentric inventor ( Jeremy Irvine ). Filmography Film Year Film Role Notes 2009 Man on a Motorcycle Girl in Bed Short film 2011 Albatross Emelia Conan Doyle 2014 Winter 's Tale Beverly Penn 2014 Lullaby Karen Lowenstein 2014 The Riot Club Rachel 2015 Victor Frankenstein Lorelei 2016 This Beautiful Fantastic Bella Brown 2017 England Is Mine Linder Sterling 2018 Iris Warriors Miss Shaw Post-production 2018 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Elizabeth McKenna Post-production Television Year Film Role Notes 2009, 2011 Misfits Rachel 2 episodes 2010 -- 2012 Downton Abbey Lady Sybil Branson 20 episodes 2011 Black Mirror Abi Khan Episode : `` Fifteen Million Merits '' 2012 Labyrinth Alaïs Pelletier du Mas Miniseries ( 2 episodes ) 2014 Jamaica Inn Mary Yellan Miniseries ( 3 episodes ) 2015 The Outcast Alice Aldridge 2 episodes 2017 Harlots Charlotte Wells TV series Awards and nominations Year Award Work Result 2011 British Independent Film Awards Most Promising Newcomer Albatross Nominated 2012 Evening Standard British Film Awards Most Promising Newcomer Albatross Nominated 2016 Ian Charleson Awards Uncle Vanya Second Prize References ^ Jump up to : Aftab, Kaleen ( 6 October 2011 ). `` The Lady is a champ : Why everyone is talking about Jessica Brown Findlay ''. The Independent. Retrieved 19 January 2012. ^ Jump up to : Pols, Mary. `` Albatross : Just Call Her Emilia Bad - Elia ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017 -- via entertainment.time.com. Jump up ^ Fleming, Mike ( 3 February 2013 ). `` Star In ' Winter 's Tale ' ''. Deadline.com. Jump up ^ `` Victor Frankenstein : James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe 's mug show ''. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2017. ^ Jump up to : McNary, Dave ( 11 April 2016 ). `` ' Downton Abbey ' Star Jessica Brown Findlay Joins Morrissey Biopic ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017. ^ Jump up to : Elber, Lynn ( 28 April 2017 ). `` Downton Abbey star takes on 18th - century London in Harlots ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017 -- via Toronto Star. ^ Jump up to : Robinson, Joanna. `` Why You 've Never Seen Anything Like Hulu 's Harlots Before ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017. ^ Jump up to : Smith, Krista. `` Jessica Brown Findlay on What Attracted Her to Downton Abbey 's Sybil ''. HWD. Retrieved 12 December 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` Downton Abbey Press Pack '' ( PDF ). ITV. ^ Jump up to : Littlejohn, Georgina ( 9 October 2011 ). `` What would they say at Downton ? Abbey 's Jessica Brown Findlay shakes off Lady Sybil in first ' shocking ' film role ''. Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 September 2012. Jump up ^ `` WIRED Binge - Watching Guide : Misfits ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017. Jump up ^ Sweney, Mark ( 26 March 2015 ). `` Downton Abbey to end after season six ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017 -- via www.theguardian.com. Jump up ^ Miller, Julie. `` Downton Abbey 's Creator Wanted to Kill Off Two Characters in Matthew 's Car Crash ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017. Jump up ^ `` ' Black Mirror ' Episode Being Turned Into Art Exhibition ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017. Jump up ^ `` You can get stuck in a Black Mirror episode for real at the Barbican ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017. Jump up ^ `` Jessica Brown Findlay to star in Not Another Happy Ending ''. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2012. Jump up ^ `` Meet the young cast of Labyrinth ''. 30 December 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2012. Jump up ^ Fleming, Mike ( 21 March 2012 ). `` Star In ' Winter 's Tale ' ''. Jump up ^ `` More News Confirmed For ' The Crow ' Remake ''. 16 March 2015. Jump up ^ `` The Crow -- Downton Abbey Star Joins Cast ; More Details ''. 15 March 2015. Jump up ^ `` BBC One : The Outcast : Episode 1 credits ''. BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2015. Jump up ^ Billington, Michael ( 7 June 2015 ). `` Icke brings us Aeschylus for the modern age ''. The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2016. Jump up ^ Clapp, Susannah ( 21 February 2016 ). `` Chekhov rewired ''. The Observer. Retrieved 10 March 2016. Jump up ^ `` Downton Abbey actress Jessica Brown Findlay joins Hamlet production ''. BBC News. Retrieved 8 September 2016. Jump up ^ Genzlinger, Neil ( 9 March 2017 ). `` Review : In ' This Beautiful Fantastic, ' a Gardener Blooms ''. Retrieved 12 December 2017 -- via NYTimes.com. Jump up ^ `` British Independent Film Awards 2011 : Nominations ''. 5 November 2011. Jump up ^ `` Evening Standard British Film Awards 2012 : Nominations ''. 17 January 2012. Jump up ^ Hawkins, Helen. `` Paapa Essiedu wins the Ian Charleson award 2016 ''. Sunday Times. 11 June 2017. Jump up ^ Snow, Georgia. `` Paapa Essiedu wins 2016 Ian Charleson award ''. The Stage. 6 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` Ian Charleson Awards 2016 ''. WestEndTheatre.com. 6 June 2017. External links Jessica Brown Findlay on IMDb Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 2010 : Boardwalk Empire, season 1 Antonacci Buscemi Coleman Graham de la Huerta Laciura Macdonald Mol Palladino Piazza Pitt Shannon Sparks Stuhlbarg Weiner Whigham 2011 : Boardwalk Empire, season 2 Buscemi Chianese Clohessy Coleman Cox J. Gallina L. Gallina Graham Huston Laciura Lind Macdonald D. McTigue R. McTigue Mol B. Noon C. Noon O'Rourke Palladino Pennewill Piazza Pitt Shannon Sparks Stuhlbarg Van Wagner Whigham Williams Yusef 2012 : Downton Abbey, series 2 Bonneville Boyle Carmichael Carter Coyle Dockery Findlay Finneran Froggatt Glen Howes James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Nicol Nuttall Robb Smith Stevens Wilton 2013 : Breaking Bad, season 5, part II Bowen Brandt Cranston Crawford Fletcher Fraser Gunn Metzler Mitte Norris Odenkirk Paul Plemons Quezada Rankin Sane 2014 : Downton Abbey, series 4 Bonneville Carmichael Carter Coyle Dockery Doyle Froggatt James James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Milne Robb Smith Speleers Theobold Wilton 2015 : Downton Abbey, series 5 Bonneville Carmichael Carter Cassidy Coyle Dockery Doyle Froggatt James James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Nicol Ovenden Smith Wilton 2016 : Stranger Things, season 1 M.B. Brown Buono Chrest Dyer Harbour Heaton Keery Matarazzo McLaughlin Modine Morgan Reynolds Ryder Schnapp Steger Wolfhard 2017 : This Is Us, season 1 / season 2 Baker Breckenridge S.K. Brown Chavis Hartley Herman Jones Metz Moore Sullivan Ventimiglia Watson Zeile Complete list ( 1994 -- 1999 ) ( 2000 -- 2009 ) ( 2010 -- present ) VIAF : 244339743 LCCN : no2012049403 ISNI : 0000 0003 6973 5446 GND : 1043078770 BNF : cb16924636k ( data ) BNE : XX5594810 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jessica_Brown_Findlay&oldid=834396011 '' Categories : 1989 births 21st - century English actresses Actresses from Berkshire Alumni of Central Saint Martins English film actresses English ballerinas English people of Scottish descent English television actresses Living people People educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts People from Cookham Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from May 2017 Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia تۆرکجه Deutsch Eesti Español فارسی Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский Suomi Svenska 中文 11 more Edit links This page was last edited on 5 April 2018, at 14 : 18. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who is the actress who plays sybil in downton abbey
Answer: Jessica Rose Brown Findlay