English Movie Review Downton Abbey - Cast & Crew

Tuppence Middleton is one of the best English actresses working in the Hollywood TV industry right now. Born on 21st February 1987, Tuppence grew up in Bristol. Tuppence was named this way after her mother’s childhood nickname. The acting bug had bitten Tuppence at a very young age, she used to study in Bristol Grammar School, where she took part in numerous school skits and plays. She also starred in Guys and Dolls, a very prominent musical play going on strong since 1933 in Britain.

Elizabeth McGovern was born on 18th July 1961 in Evanston Illinois. She is an American film, theatre and television actor and a musician. Her mother, Katherine Wolcott was a high school teacher, and her father, William Montgomery McGovern Jr. was a University professor of law. Her younger sister, Cammie McGovern is a novelist. Her brother, William McGovern is also a professor. She is of Scottish, English and distant German ancestry and comes from an illustrious family. Elizabeth graduated from The Oakwood School and studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and then at The Julliard School in New York City. She is married to British film director and producer Simon Curtis and has two daughters Matilda and Grace. Previously she was engaged to actor Sean Penn when she was just 23 years old. McGovern was offered her first film while she was at Julliard, Ordinary People (1980) starring opposite Timothy Hutton. For the role in Ordinary People, she dropped out of college briefly. After she had completed her college education, she began to appear in plays, and later major theatre productions. In 1981, she did the film Ragtime for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

With a broad range that extends from Shakespeare to Chicken Run and pretty much everything in the middle of, on-screen character Imelda Staunton has, as anyone might expect, get to be a standout amongst the most profoundly regarded performing artists working in the U.K. On the off chance that her propensity for playing what numerous would consider to be commonplace, regular characters discovered Staunton criminally disregarded in the early years of her profession, it was her sharp capacity to infuse those characters with a momentous many-sided quality that in the end made the stage backbone turned-little screen powerhouse one of Britain's most looked for after abilities. 

A London local and graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Staunton squandered no time propelling her vocation taking after graduation, getting to be connected with such prestigious venues as The Old Vic and the National Theater. A trio of creations with the Royal Shakespeare Company picked up her various discriminating awards, and in 1986 Staunton made an amazing TV debut in the fanciful BBC generation of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective. Progressively occupied all through the 1990s, Staunton kept on picking up force in front of an audience while acquiring three Oliviers for her exhibitions in The Corn Is Green, A Chorus of Disapproval, and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. 

As Staunton's various stage parts kept on gaining her basic achievement, regular TV and film parts made her a well-known and charming face to the overall population. In spite of the fact that a significant number of her U.K. TV parts went concealed by stateside gatherings of people, supporting parts in such elements as Much Ado About Nothing, Sense, and Sensibility, and Shakespeare in Love discovered Staunton gradually living up to expectations her way into the still, small voice of U.S. film buffs too. Moving into the new thousand years, Staunton's parts in such movies as Chicken Run (for which she gave the voice of Bunty), Crush, Bright Young Things, and I'll Be There discovered the built up TV performing artist effectively removing herself from the little screen for highlight movies. 

Obviously, every performer longs for the achievement part that will make him or her a worldwide star, and for Imelda Staunton that part was of a 1950s time abortionist got in a descending winding in executive Mike Leigh's 2004 show Vera Drake. Her evidently influencing depiction of the title part - a magnanimous housewife and cleaning lady who becomes famous performing illicit premature births - earned her close all inclusive recognition. In the wake of gaining honors from both The Venice Film Festival and The New York Film Festival and also the Los Angeles and Chicago film faultfinder affiliations, Staunton had obviously arrived when the part earned her a Best Actress selection for the 77th Annual Academy Awards. 

Ensuing parts in the U.K. TV comic drama Little Britain and also the components Nanny McPhee and Freedom Writers served well to acquaint her with totally new, frequently American, groups of onlookers. In 2007, only one year in the wake of showing up in a bright Masterpiece Theater creation of the youngsters' excellent The Wind and the Willows, she stayed in the realm of imagination for her part in Harry Potter and the Phoenix's Order. Staunton played Dolores Umbridge - the most recent in a long line of Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers - whose serious demeanor got under the skin of Harry Potter himself. She was a thrown's piece of the very much regarded TV generation Cranford and showed up in the moving dramatization Freedom Writers. She collaborated with Mike Leigh again for 2010's Another Year, and that same year she showed up in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. She kept on working in enlivened family movies, for example, Arthur Christmas and The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Laura Carmichael is a widely known British actress. She is the star of great plays and numerous television series. Known for the distinct portrayal of characters, Laura is a pleasure to watch. Today she is a celebrity who is recognized for her vast contributions. She is one among the main cast of heart winning television series ‘Downton Abbey.’ With this, she has earned many die-hard fans. Born as Laura Elizabeth Carmichael to Andy and Sarah Carmichael, Laura hails from Southampton, Hampshire UK. She had a dream of becoming an actress at the age of ten. Her school plays gave her the inspiration.

We’re all convinced that she’s one of the greatest living actresses of all time. One of the Britain’s versatile imported actresses, a double Oscar Award winning queen, mesmerized our eyes with her mythical looks in her early years of acting. She has been delighting us for more than six decades as our choice “First Lady of Magic” – Dame Maggie Smith CH, DBE.

Brian Percival is a movie director from Great Britain. He gets known among the audiences for working on the television shows such as North & South and Downton Abbey. Not only TV shows but he has also directed the short film with the name of The Book Thief. The city of Liverpool in Merseyside is Brian Percival’s birthplace. He was a student of the school titled New Heys Comprehensive School. He studied at this school for about a span of 7 years. The years of his schooling here were from 1973 to 1980.

Matthew Goode, also known as Matthew William Goode is a well-known actor known for his appearance in films in the British film industry. He is recognized for his roles in popular hit flicks like ‘Watchmen’ in which he appeared as ‘Adrian Veidt’ or ‘Ozymandias’, and as ‘Henry Talbot’ in the famous British television show, ‘Downtown Abbey.' He was born as Matthew William Goode on the 3rd of April in the year 1978 in the city of Exeter in Devon in England. He was born to Jennifer Goode, who was a nurse by profession and a small-scale theater director as well, and to Mr. Goode, who was a geologist by profession. 

Stephen Campbell Moore is an English film actor, who became popular for his portrayal in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys. He was born as Stephen Moore Thorpe on November 30, 1977, in London, England in the UK. He studied at Berkhamsted School and was trained as an actor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, together with Orlando Bloom. Stephen was debuted in the film, Bright Young Things.