Jessica Brown Findlay is an English actress who was born on 14 September 1987 in Berkshire, England. She is best known for her role as Lady Sybil Crawley on Downton Abbey; He also appeared in TV series such as Harlots, Brave New World and Silo.
She aimed to become a professional ballerina in her childhood. He trained at the National Youth Ballet and the Royal Ballet's talent programme; At the age of 15, she received an invitation to dance with the Mariinsky Ballet at the Royal Opera House. When ankle injuries ended her dance career, she turned to art and studied fine arts at Central Saint Martins; He met acting during this period.
Screen and stage
In 2010, she began playing the family's youngest daughter, Sybil, in ITV's period drama Downton Abbey, and remained in the series until the character exited the storyline in 2012. In 2011, she starred as Emelia Conan Doyle in the movie Albatross; In the same year, he appeared in the Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. In 2014, she played Beverly Penn in Winter's Tale, and in 2015 she played acrobat Lorelei in Victor Frankenstein.
She played Charlotte Wells in Harlots, which ran for three seasons between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, she played Lenina Crowne in the adaptation of Brave New World; She voiced Lenore in the animated series Castlevania. In the cinema, he appeared in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and Munich: The Edge of War (2021). She took on the pilot character Charlotte Keene in the Apple TV+ series Silo.
He has also worked regularly in theatre: in 2015 he appeared on stage in Oresteia at the Almeida Theatre, in 2016 in Uncle Vanya; In 2017, she played Ophelia in Hamlet, which later moved to the West End.
