Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery engaged to Phoebe Waller- Bridge's brother Jasper
Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery has shared the happy news that she is set to marry Phoebe Waller-Bridge's brother Jasper
Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery has found love again and is set to marry Jasper Waller-Bridge.
The actress, 40, who attracted global fame for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the hit BBC period drama Downton Abbey, announced the couple's happy news in The Times today.
Michelle met Jasper, who is the younger brother of Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge through friends in 2019 and first went public together at the Rome Film Festival.
Jasper works for leading talent agency James Grant and previously managed One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson.
The Times announcement reads: "The engagement is announced between Jasper, son of Michael Waller-Bridge of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and Teresa Waller-Bridge of Battersea, London, and Michelle Dockery, younger daughter of Michael and Lorraine Dockery of Gidea Park, Essex."
The engagement comes after the actress suffered the loss her fiancé John Dineen to a rare form of cancer six years ago.
The actress said at the time she considered herself a widow at the loss of "my friend, my king, my hero, my everything".
Two years after his death she told the Guardian in 2017: “I don’t have the vocabulary to describe what it felt like.
“And what it still feels like. It is … sorry, give me a minute. I’ve never been more committed to anything in my life than to him.
“So at the time everything just shut down. Work, everything. Work didn’t matter. You suddenly become an [oncological] expert. This stuff becomes your world, and that of course was my priority."
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Meanwhile, fans of the actress are delighted she's reprising her role in Downton Abbey: A New Era alongside cast favourites Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville and Joanne Froggatt.
The return will also see new faces cast in the period drama with The Wire star Dominic West, Hannibal actor Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock from The Inbetweeners Movie.
Michelle's more recent roles include starring alongside Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam and Henry Golding in Guy Ritchie’s crime drama The Gentlemen.