MASTERPIECE: DOWNTON ABBEY SEASONS 1, 2 & 3 (U.K. EDITION)

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• Release Year: 2010
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Downton Abby—a sprawling, lavish Edwardian mansion and park nestled in the lush North Yorkshire landscape—needs an heir. Dame Maggie Smith turns in a show-stopping performance as Violet, the charmingly stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham, matriarch of Downton and the irrefutable authority on everything. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic, unflappable Earl of Grantham; Elizabeth McGovern plays his far-sighted American wife, Cora; and a star-studded cast round out the glittering, gossipy, and beguiling men and women of this epic tale from Academy Award®-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park).; ; After a tragedy at sea claims the life of the presumed heir, Lord Grantham is faced with the possibility that the house he's loved his whole life might someday belong to a distant cousin he's never met. But before he can worry about that he must deal with his scandalous daughter, Lady Mary—considered by many to be the rightful heir to Downton. Even the staff has opinions on the family's affairs. And while most are devoted to those they serve, there are others whose selfishness and scheming do more than simply disrupt the well-oiled inner workings of the estate. As the servants' mischief escalates, even the most faithful employees begin to imagine a different life.; ; Pitting hundreds of years of British aristocracy against the tides of social upheaval and technical progress, under the looming shadow of World War I, will the fate of Downton and its family—above and below the stairs—be resolved? Or will life be altered so dramatically that its master no longer matters?
• Cast: Hugh Bonneville; Laura Carmichael; Jim Carter; Brendan Coyle; Michelle Dockery; Joanne Froggatt; Rob James-Collier; Phyllis Logan; Elizabeth McGovern; Sophie McShera; Lesley Nicol; Maggie Smith; Penelope Wilton; Allen Leech; Kevin Doyle; Siobhan Finneran; Dan Stevens; David Robb; Jessica Brown Findlay; Matt Milne; Amy Nuttall; Ed Speleers; Cara Theobold; Thomas Howes; Lily James; Samantha Bond; Rose Leslie; Zoe Boyle; Robert Bathurst; Charles Edwards; Iain Glen; Jonathan Coy; Brendan Patricks; Jason Furnival; Raquel Cassidy; Tom Cullen; Neil Bell; Michael Cochrane; Paul Copley; MyAnna Buring; Julian Ovenden; Clare Calbraith; Christine Lohr; Nigel Harman; Christine Mackie; Gary Carr; Andrew Scarborough; Douglas Reith; Daisy Lewis; Lionel Guyett; Shirley Maclaine; Bernard Gallagher; Nicky Henson; Helen Sheals; Jeremy Swift; Kevin McNally; Daniel Pirrie; Patrick Kennedy; Maria Doyle Kennedy; Joncie Elmore; Cal Macaninch; Fergus O'Donnell; Michael Culkin; Andrew Alexander; Andrew Westfield; Karl Haynes; Joanna David; Cathy Sara; Clare Higgins; Mark Penfold; Lucille Sharp; Ged Simmons; Stephen Ventura; Peter Egan; Harriet Walter; Timothy Carlton; Charlie Cox; Kate Bowes Renna; Colin R. Campbell; Bill Fellows; Theo James; Danny Burns; Howard Gossington; Kenneth Bryans; Di Botcher; Paul Giamatti; Elizabeth Hill; Greg Hobbs; Roger Morlidge; Gwendolen Chatfield; Tom Feary-Campbell; Edward Baker-Duly; Ruairi Conaghan; Jamie de Courcey; Richard Hawley; Jonathan Jaynes; Nigel Havers; Rosie Jones; Charlie Anson; Ron Donachie; Poppy Drayton; Ian Kelly; Marcus Kelly; Perry Millward; Martin Reeve; Dean Williamson; Jeremy Clyde; Dominic Kemp; James Fox; Graham Padden; Simon Poland; Trevor White; Sarah Crowden; Terence Harvey; Yves Aubert; Oliver Dimsdale; Simon Lowe; Gerard Mcdermott; Lachlan Nieboer; Tony Pritchard; Shaun Hennessy; Alex Carter; Kieran Hodgson; Janet Montgomery; Sean McKenzie; Richard Hansell; Nick Sampson; John Henshaw; Edmund Kente; Tim Pigott-Smith; John Voce; Tristan Beint; Spencer Cowan; Stephen Critchlow; Jonathan Howard; David Maybrick; Stephen Omer; Sharon Small; Julian Wadham; Emma Keele; Jordan Long; Nicky Bell; Michael Benz; Peter O'Connor; Simone Lahbib; Kiri Te Kanawa; Issy Van Randwyck; Jane Wenham; Anton Saunders; Phoebe Nicholls; David Acton; Joshua Richards; Moray Treadwell; David Sibley; Richard Teverson; Nigel Betts; Philip Scott-Wallace; William Travis; Tony Turner; Richard Dempsey; Stuart Ward; Alastair Bruce; Guy Williams; Pete Lee-Wilson; Michael Haydon; Laura Hydari; Anna Chancellor; Richard E. Grant; Rade Serbedzija; Peter Brown; Giles Spencer; Teresa Mahoney; Brian William Woodward; Catherine Balavage; Filippo Delaunay; Andy Evason; Jefferson King; Cara Bamford; Greg Bennett; Robert Clayton; Matthew David Hearn; Laura Jeanne; Ed Pearce; James Adkin; Jonathan Brooks; Lewis James; Christopher Longman; Martyn Mayger; David G. Robinson; Glen Stanway; Martin Webbe; Christina Carty; Chris Cowlin; Aisling Hughes; Stuart Matthews; Henry McCook; Hugh O'Brien; Scott Plumridge; Edward Scott-Clarke; Evie Wray; Brian Percival; Brian Kelly; David Evans; James Strong; Jeremy Webb; Edward Hall; Phillip John; Catherine Morshead; Jon East; Julian Fellowes; Tina Pepler; Shelagh Stephenson
• Director: Brian Percival
• Runtime: 0
• Company: Carnival Films, WGBH Boston Video, PBS Distribution, Masterpiece
• Media Format: Series