Which actor plays the Earl of Grantham in the ITV series 'Downton Abbey'?
"led by Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, and Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Cora Crawley, the Countess of Grantham. Their three daughters are depicted by Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley, Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith Crawley and Jessica Brown Findlay as Lady Sybil Crawley (Branson). Maggie Smith is Robert Crawley's mother Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham. Samantha Bond portrays Lady Rosamund Painswick, Robert's sister who resides in Belgrave Square, London. Dan Stevens portrays Matthew Crawley, the new heir, along with Penelope Wilton as his mother, Isobel Crawley, who are brought to Downton. Allen Leech begins"
"of Grantham Screenwriter Julian Fellowes used the title, Earl of Grantham — although as a new fictional creation in the Peerage of Great Britain — for one of the main characters, Robert Crawley, in his 2010 ITV1 period drama ""Downton Abbey"". Earl of Grantham Earl of Grantham was a title in the Peerage of England created once on 24 December 1698, along with the titles Viscount Boston, of Boston in the County of Lincoln, and Baron Alford, of Alford in the County of Lincoln, for Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque. The titles were created with a special remainder, failing heirs male"
"Jeremy Northam Jeremy Philip Northam (born December 1, 1961) is an English actor. After a number of television roles, he earned attention as Mr. Knightley in the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Emma"". He has appeared in the films ""Gosford Park"", ""Amistad"", ""The Winslow Boy"", ""Enigma"", ""Martin and Lewis"", amongst others. He also played Thomas More in the Showtime series ""The Tudors"". From 2016 to 2017 he appeared as Anthony Eden in the Netflix series ""The Crown"". Northam was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the youngest of four siblings. His mother, Rachel (née Howard), was a potter and professor of"
"London children's charity Scene & Heard and an ambassador for WaterAid. Hugh Bonneville Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963), known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the television series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonneville was born in Paddington, in west London, to a mother who was a nurse and a father who was a urological surgeon. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and at Sherborne School, an independent school in"
"Mark in ""The Innocent"", a film for ITV, Michael Owen in the BBC comedy drama ""Hearts and Bones"" which earned him rave reviews, Joshua in ""The Bible"" (History Channel), Magistrate Bassat in ""Jamaica Inn"" (BBC1) and Tim Drewe in ""Downton Abbey"" (ITV) which earned him more rave reviews. Andrew Scarborough Andrew Scarborough is an English actor, most widely known for his recent role on screen as Tim Drewe in the multi BAFTA and Emmy award-winning ""Downton Abbey"" and since 2017 as Graham Foster in the television drama series ""Emmerdale"". He is also known for his other roles on screen in"
"Matthew Goode as Henry Talbot. Downton Abbey's senior staff are portrayed by Jim Carter as Mr Carson, the butler, and Phyllis Logan as Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper. Tensions rise when Rob James-Collier, portraying Mr Barrow, a valet and footman, along with Siobhan Finneran as Miss O'Brien, the personal maid to the Countess of Grantham (up to series three), plot against Brendan Coyle as Mr Bates, the valet to the Earl of Grantham, and his love interest and eventual wife, Anna (Joanne Froggatt), the personal maid to Lady Mary. Kevin Doyle plays the unlucky Mr Molesley, valet to Matthew Crawley; he"
"Andrew Scarborough Andrew Scarborough is an English actor, most widely known for his recent role on screen as Tim Drewe in the multi BAFTA and Emmy award-winning ""Downton Abbey"" and since 2017 as Graham Foster in the television drama series ""Emmerdale"". He is also known for his other roles on screen in ""Hearts and Bones"", ""The Bible"", ""Jamaica Inn"", ""Hidden"" and ""Bad Girls"". He is also a theatre actor, performing in many of London's major theatres, including the West End theatre, and many provincial theatres in the UK, including mainland Europe with the Actors Touring Company—at the Renaissance-Theater Berlin in"
"Iain Glen Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. Glen is known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs / Tyrant in the ""Resident Evil"" film series and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series ""Game of Thrones"". Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in ""Mountains of the Moon"", Sir Richard Carlisle in ""Downton Abbey"", the title role in ""Jack Taylor"", and Jarrod Slade in ""Cleverman"". Iain Glen was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the"
"Gyton Grantley Gyton Grantley (born 1 July 1980) is a Logie Award and AFI Award-winning Australian actor, best known for his portrayal of convicted murderer and drug trafficker Carl Williams in the hit Australian television show ""Underbelly"", for which he was nominated for both Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series and Most Popular Actor for the 2009 TV Week Logie Awards and the 2008 AFI award (winning for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series). Grantley won the 2009 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor. Since 2012 he has portrayed Kane Albert in ""House Husbands"". Grantley was educated at"
"Hugh Bonneville Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963), known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the television series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonneville was born in Paddington, in west London, to a mother who was a nurse and a father who was a urological surgeon. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and at Sherborne School, an independent school in Dorset. Following secondary education, Bonneville read theology at Corpus Christi College,"
"appeared in the ITV period drama ""Downton Abbey"", as Robert, Earl of Grantham. In early 2010, he appeared in the comedy film ""Burke and Hare"". In 2011 and 2012, he starred as Ian Fletcher in the award-winning BBC comedy series ""Twenty Twelve"", and reprised the role in the 2014 BBC comedy series ""W1A"". In December 2012, he appeared on BBC Two with co-star Jessica Hynes in ""World's Most Dangerous Roads"", travelling through Georgia. He also appeared in the much-delayed film ""Hippie Hippie Shake"" with Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller. From 2011 until 2014, Bonneville was the narrator of the Channel"
"Eden (born 2016), and a son, Aubrey (born 2012). Actress Rebecca Hall is godmother to his daughter Willow. Stevens endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Dan Stevens Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film ""The Guest"" (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film """" (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017), Lorin Willis"
"whom he met filming the Channel 4 miniseries ""World Without End"". They reside together in Los Angeles, California. Tom Cullen Tom Cullen (born 17 July 1985) is a Welsh actor. He had roles in the independent film ""Weekend"" (2011), as Anthony ""Tony"" Foyle, Viscount Gillingham in the television series ""Downton Abbey"", and as Sir Landry in the historical drama series ""Knightfall"". Cullen was born in Aberystwyth. His father is Irish and his mother is English. He spent his early years in Llandrindod Wells and moved to Cardiff at age 12, where he attended Llanishen High School. He is the son"
"Dan Stevens Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film ""The Guest"" (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film """" (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama ""Marshall"" (2017), and Charles Dickens in the biographical drama ""The Man Who Invented Christmas"" (2017). Since 2017, he has starred as David Haller in the FX"
"Ed Speleers Edward John ""Ed"" Speleers (born 7 April 1988) is an English actor and producer. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film ""Eragon"", as well as starring in the TV series ""Downton Abbey"". Speleers also has nominations for awards such as Saturn Award and National Television Awards. Speleers was born at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex. His parents divorced when he was three. His mother, Gill, lives in Spain; his father, John, is a financial consultant and lives in London. He has two older half brothers. In 2006, he left Eastbourne College"
"Tobias Menzies Hanan Tobias Simpson Menzies (born 7 March, 1974) is an English stage, television and film actor. While working in theatre, he starred in television shows such as ""Rome"" (2005–2007) where he played Brutus and ""Game of Thrones"" (2013–2016) where he played Edmure Tully. He is probably best known for his dual role as Frank Randall and Jonathan ""Black Jack"" Randall in ""Outlander"" (2014–2018), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. His film work includes ""Casino Royale"" and """". Menzies will portray Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the third and fourth seasons of the original Netflix"
"November 2018, with Mark Gatiss playing the king. It follows Scarborough's role as Fortnum in the 1994 film version of the play. In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award and won the ""Manchester Evening News"" Award for his performance in ""The Comedy of Errors"" at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. In March 2011 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a revival of the play ""After the Dance"" by Terence Rattigan. Adrian Scarborough Adrian Philip Scarborough (born 10 May 1968) is an English actor, most widely known for film roles"
"Nigel Harman Nigel Derek Harman (born 11 August 1973) is a British actor, best known for his role as Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". He has worked mostly in theatre, with the stage being described as his ""first love"". He starred in the final series of ""Hotel Babylon"". In early 2013 he started filming for the fourth series of Downton Abbey, playing visiting valet, Mr Green. From 2013 until the series ended in 2017, he played the role of Bradley Dawson in Sky One's ""Mount Pleasant"". In the theatre, he has played various musical roles including Sky"
"Harry Hadden-Paton Harry Hadden-Paton (born 10 April 1981) is a British actor. He is perhaps best known for his television role as Herbert Pelham, 7th Marquess of Hexham, in the television series ""Downton Abbey"". Hadden-Paton is currently playing the lead role of Henry Higgins in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of ""My Fair Lady"" on Broadway, a performance for which he was nominated for the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Hadden-Paton is the son of former Cavalry officer Nigel Hadden-Paton and the former Sarah Mellor. He has three sisters: Polly, Clementine, and Alice, who is married"
"Laura Carmichael Laura Elizabeth Carmichael (born 16 July 1986) is an English actress, most widely known for her performance as Lady Edith Crawley in the ITV (UK) and PBS (US) television period drama series"" Downton Abbey"". Her other work includes television series ""Marcella"" (2016), and the feature film ""A United Kingdom"" (2016). Carmichael was born in Southampton, England, to Sarah, a radiographer, and Andy Carmichael, a software consultant. She is the middle of three daughters. Her sister Amy works for a software start-up company and her sister Olivia is a charity fundraiser with the NHS. One of Carmichael's paternal great-grandfathers"
"Richard E. Grant Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swazi-English actor. He made his film debut as Withnail in the drama ""Withnail and I"" (1987). In film, Grant is further recognized as John Seward in ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" (1992) and Zander Rice in ""Logan"" (2017). In television, he played Bob Cratchit in TNT's ""A Christmas Carol"" (1999), Izembaro in the sixth season of the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"", the Great Intelligence in the seventh series of ""Doctor Who"" and Simon Bricker in the critically acclaimed ITV/Masterpiece program ""Downton Abbey"". He will appear in"
"was a producer of Barnaby Blackburn's short film ""Wale"". Speleers lives in London, England. He is married to Asia Macey and has one child with her, born in January 2015. In May 2018, the British portal Daily Mail confirmed that the couple would be expecting their second baby. Ed Speleers Edward John ""Ed"" Speleers (born 7 April 1988) is an English actor and producer. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film ""Eragon"", as well as starring in the TV series ""Downton Abbey"". Speleers also has nominations for awards such as Saturn Award and National"
"David Bradley (English actor) David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is known for playing Argus Filch in the ""Harry Potter"" film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series ""Game of Thrones"" and Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series ""The Strain"". He is also an established stage actor with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of ""King Lear"". Other acting credits include the BBC series ""Our Friends in the North"", the ITV series ""Broadchurch"" (for which he won the best supporting actor award at the"
"by Dirk Maggs and ""Doctor Who"" with Tom Baker. The year ended with ""Blithe Spirit"" again – with Dame Angela Lansbury – on a North American tour. Once again playing Arthur Dent, he recorded the final radio series, ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- the Hexagonal Phase"" directed by [Dirk Maggs] for BBC Radio 4. An August 2018 announcement indicated that Jones would be among the new cast to join the original actors in the Downton Abbey film, which started principal photography at about the same time. Simon Jones (actor) Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English actor."
"Mr Green. From 2013 until the series ended in 2017, he played Bradley Dawson in ""Mount Pleasant"". Nigel Harman Nigel Derek Harman (born 11 August 1973) is a British actor, best known for his role as Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". He has worked mostly in theatre, with the stage being described as his ""first love"". He starred in the final series of ""Hotel Babylon"". In early 2013 he started filming for the fourth series of Downton Abbey, playing visiting valet, Mr Green. From 2013 until the series ended in 2017, he played the role of Bradley"
"2017, they announced they were expecting their second child, Elsie-Rose, in May 2018. The couple took part in ""All Star Mr & Mrs"" in August 2016. Adam Thomas Adam Gordon Thomas (born 11 August 1988) is an English actor, and the brother of former Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas. He is known for playing the roles of Donte Charles in the BBC drama ""Waterloo Road"" (2006–2009) and Adam Barton in the ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"" (2009–2018). Adam Gordon Thomas was born on 11 August 1988 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. He is the twin brother of Scott Thomas, who starred"
"Tom Cullen Tom Cullen (born 17 July 1985) is a Welsh actor. He had roles in the independent film ""Weekend"" (2011), as Anthony ""Tony"" Foyle, Viscount Gillingham in the television series ""Downton Abbey"", and as Sir Landry in the historical drama series ""Knightfall"". Cullen was born in Aberystwyth. His father is Irish and his mother is English. He spent his early years in Llandrindod Wells and moved to Cardiff at age 12, where he attended Llanishen High School. He is the son of two writers and has two siblings. Before pursuing an acting career he was involved in music. He"
"Grigory, in Boris Godunov at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon from November 2012 to March 2013. He has appeared in ""Ten Days to War"" and ""Doctors"", and played William in ""Copenhagen"". His most notable roles are Renly Baratheon in the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"" and Charles Manson in NBC's ""Aquarius"". In 2017, he voiced the character of Gil Brodie in the video game """", and he was in a play 'A Lie of the Mind' at Southwark Playhouse,London with Robert Lonsdale and Kate Fahy. Gethin Anthony Gethin David L. Anthony (born 9 October 1983) is an English television"
"a number of projects in development. Fredenburgh was born in Clapham, and raised on a commune. Since the age of 10 he has been a confirmed North Londoner. In 2002, he received an Ian Charleson Award commendation for his work in the title role of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Prince Of Homburg Dan Fredenburgh Dan Fredenburgh is a British actor and screenwriter known for ""The Bourne Ultimatum"" (2007), ""Love Actually"" (2003) and the role of John Knightley in the BBC's adaptation of ""Emma"" (2009). Since graduating from The Arts Educational School, he has worked in film, theatre"
"Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor, who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's ""The King's Speech"" won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Identified in the late 1980s with the ""Brit Pack"" of rising, young British actors, it was not until his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Pride"
"John Alderton John Alderton (born 27 November 1940) is an English actor who is best known for his roles in ""Upstairs, Downstairs"", ""Thomas & Sarah"", ""Wodehouse Playhouse"", ""Little Miss"" (original TV series), ""Please Sir!"" and ""Fireman Sam"" (the original series). Alderton has often starred alongside his wife, Pauline Collins. Alderton was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the son of Ivy (née Handley) and Gordon John Alderton. He grew up in Hull where he attended Kingston High School. Alderton first became familiar to television viewers in 1962, when he played Dr Moone in the ITV soap opera, ""Emergency – Ward 10"". He"
"Erich Neumann, the Director of the Office of the Four Year Plan. His main scenes were with Brendan Coyle, who played Gestapo General Heinrich Muller. He would be reunited with Coyle over 10 years later on the set of ""Downton Abbey"", where Coy played Mr. George Murray, Lord Grantham's lawyer. In 2014 he appeared in the world premiere production of ""Privacy"" at the Donmar Warehouse, London, and in 2015 in the world premiere production of Stoppard's ""The Hard Problem"". Jonathan Coy Jonathan Coy is a British actor born in Hammersmith, London on 24 April 1953. He has worked since 1975"
"Adam Thomas Adam Gordon Thomas (born 11 August 1988) is an English actor, and the brother of former Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas. He is known for playing the roles of Donte Charles in the BBC drama ""Waterloo Road"" (2006–2009) and Adam Barton in the ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"" (2009–2018). Adam Gordon Thomas was born on 11 August 1988 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. He is the twin brother of Scott Thomas, who starred in ""Love Island"" in 2016 and the younger brother of ""Coronation Street"" actor, Ryan Thomas. Thomas began his television career in 2002 with a guest appearance"