Laura Carmichael
Laura Carmichael
Laura Elizabeth Carmichael is an English actress, most widely known for her role as Lady Edith Crawley in the TV period drama series Downton Abbey. In 2016, Carmichael starred in a play production, The Maids, alongside Uzo Aduba and Zawe Ashton...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth18 July 1986
character play order
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
I'm not recognised much at all.
southampton
I'm from Southampton.
thinking careers gorgeous
I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
crush girl beyonce
I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.
I don't really get recognised very much.
tvs cry film
I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
saws posh
I certainly never saw myself as posh.
play people actors
As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
girl play agents
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
class obsession
In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.
jobs drama teaching
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
thinking helping tricky
When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
real real-life relief
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.