Michelle Dockery will soon be a mother. The British actor, who became famed for playing Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey, revealed her pregnancy We
Michelle Dockery will soon be a mother. The British actor, who became famed for playing Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey, revealed her pregnancy Wednesday at the London premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, which will be released to theaters September 12.
Looking ravishing in a powder blue gown, the actor showed off her baby bump. The child will be the first for Dockery and husband Jasper Waller-Bridge—younger brother of Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge—who accompanied Dockery on the red carpet.
The actor and her husband, a inventive director of a management company, were married in 2023 in an intimate London ceremony. Their wedding came just over a year after they announced their engagement in the pages of the Times, in a very classic and formal manner. The pair has not discussed how they met, though they were first spotted together in 2019 at the Rome Film Festival. They married at St. Nicholas Church in Chiswick, London.
Dockery’s romance with Waller-Bridge follows her relationship with partner John Dineen, who died in 2015 at 34 from a infrequent form of cancer. Allen Leech, who plays Tom Branson on Downton, had introduced them. “I refer to myself as a widow, yes. We were engaged, and married at heart, and so I do consider myself a widow,” Dockery told The Guardian of her fiancé in the aftermath of his passing. “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.”
This story originally appeared in VF Italia.
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