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Michelle Dockery reveals she's no longer cast in period dramas because her Lady Mary character in Downton Abbey is 'too recognisable'

Michelle Dockery says she is no longer cast in period dramas because her character in Downton Abbey is 'too recognisable'.

For the new role she has had to begin a new journey from English rose to alcoholic to play Estella Quinn, a key character who unites the younger and older generations in Steven Knight's eight-part Midlands drama. And when her Irish fiancé John Dineen died of cancer in 2015, aged just 34, she sang the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein standard The Folks Who Live on the Hill at the funeral in Cork. For the new role she has had to begin a new journey from English rose to alcoholic to play Estella Quinn, a key character who unites the younger and older generations in Steven Knight's eight-part Midlands drama

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