The Family
Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, known as Lord Grantham
Elizabeth McGovern is Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham
Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley
Laura Carmichael performs her role as Lady Edith Crawley
Jessica Brown Findlay plays as Lady Sybil Crawley, who later marries Tom Branson, the Chauffeur, becoming Sybil Branson in Season 2
Dan Stevens plays Matthew Crawley, cousin of Robert. He inherits the Downton Abbey estate and title after Robert’s cousins die in the Titanic disaster.
Maggie Smith plays Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham. She is Robert’s mother, and the grandmother of the daughters.
Allen Leech is Mr. Tom Branson former Chauffeur and husband to Lady Sybil Crawley in Season 2
The Staff
Jim Carter plays Charles “Charlie” Carson the Butler
Phyllis Logan is Elsie Hughes the Housekeeper
Brendan Coyle plays John Bates, Lord Grantham’s valet for Season 1 and most of Season 2
Siobhan Finneran as Sarah O’Brien Lady Grantham’s lady’s maid
Rob James-Collier playing Thomas Barrow the Footman, later Lord Grantham’s valet by the end of Season 2
Joanne Froggatt as Anna Smith (later Anna Bates) the Head housemaid. Later lady’s maid, wife to John Bates in Season 2
Lesley Nicol is Beryl Patmore the Cook
Sophie McShera plays Daisy Robinson (later Daisy Mason) as the Kitchen maid, and later the Assistant Cook
Thomas Howes as the former William Mason who was a Footman until Season 2
Rose Leslie as Gwen Dawson who was a Housemaid in Season 1
Amy Nuttall plays Ethel Parks as one of the Housemaids in Season 2
Kevin Doyle is Joseph Molesley who is Matthew Crawley’s butler and valet
Season 3 Characters
Shirley MacLaine wows us all as Martha Levinson, Lady Cora’s American mother
Lily James is Lady Rose MacClare, Cousin of the Crawleys by way of The Dowager Countess’s niece, Susan, and her husband Hugh
Charles Edwards plays Michael Gregson, the Newspaper Editor who loves Edith, but is already married to a woman in a mental institution
Matt Milne plays Alfred Nugent, a new footman and Sarah O’brian’s nephew
Edward Speelers is cast as James “Jimmy” Kent who is the handsome new footman
Cara Theobold is Ivy Stuart, the new kitchen maid
Find out more about the series here. Don’t miss season 3 as the Downton Abbey Cast performs the next inspiring chapter in this epic saga.