Suzanne Michelle Dockery was born on the 15th December 1981, in Rush Green, London, England, and is an actress probably best known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the television series “Downton Abbey” (2000 – 2015), for which she was nominated among others for three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. Dockery has been active in the entertainment industry since 2000.
How rich is the actress? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Michelle Dockery’s net worth is as much as $4 million, as of the data presented in the beginning of 2017. Acting is the main source of Dokery’s wealth.
Michelle Dockery Net Worth $4 Million
To begin with, Michelle is the daughter of Michael Francis Dockery and Lorraine Witton. Dockery attended Chadwell Heath Foundation School, now Chadwell Heath Academy. The young woman was also a member of the National Youth Theatre, and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama which she graduated from in 2004, before making her professional debut at the Royal National Theatre. In 2006, she received the Ian Charleson Award for her performance in “Pillars of the Community” at the National Theatre. Meantime she made her television debut as Susan Sto Helit in the television series “Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather” (2005). Her net worth was rising slowly.
The actress then appeared in “Burnt by the Sun” at the National Theatre for which she was rewarded as the Best Actress at the Olivier Award ceremony. In 2008, she played Kathryn in “The Red Riding Trilogy” and appeared in “Waking the Dead”. The following year Michelle was cast in the lead role of Anne in the television film “The Turn of the Screw”, but became famous playing Lady Mary Crawley in “Downton Abbey” (2010 – 2015), starring with Maggie Smith. This role brought her several nominations, including the Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Television Awards. In 2013, the entire cast of the series won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Drama Series, leaving popular series as “Breaking Bad”, “Homeland”, “Mad Men” and “Boardwalk Empire” behind, potentially boosting Michelle’s net worth.
In 2014, she starred alongside Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore in the thriller “Non Stop” directed by Jaume Collet Serra, both praised by critics as well as becoming a box office hit. In 2015, she was in the main cast of the science fiction thriller “Self/less” by Tarsem Singh. Since 2016, she is in the main cast of the television series “Good Behaviour”, and in 2017 the actress starred in the drama film “The Sense of an Ending” by Ritesh Batra. Currently, she is working on the set of the drama series’ “Godless” and “Angie Tribeca”.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, through the actor Allen Leech she met John Dineen, who worked in public relations. They became engaged but John died at the end of 2015 of a rare form of cancer, which was diagnosed at the beginning of the year. Currently, the actress is single.
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