MEET THE NEWBIES
HUGH DANCY JACK BARBER
The Hannibal star plays a charming and handsome film director who manages to persuade the Grantham family to let him make his new film on the grounds of Downton itself. Well, it saves money on sets…
LAURA HADDOCK MYRNA DALGLEISH
Laura plays a classic 1920s (fictional) Hollywood movie star, who turns out to be as entitled and spoilt as you’d imagine a pampered celeb should be. But she has a secret issue of her own.
DOMINIC WEST GUY WEXLER
The actor who shone in The Affair and The Wire, to name a few, plays the leading man opposite Myrna. And unlike his difficult co-star, Guy is a dashing, all-round smoothie.
NATHALIE BAYE MADAME DE MONTMIRAIL
The veteran French actress, who played herself in Call My Agent, here stars as the furious owner of the ultra-lavish South of France property that seems to have been bequeathed to the Crawleys.