MICHELLE Dockery, who plays Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, is to release an album with Elizabeth McGovern, her co-star in the popular ITV costume drama.
As Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, Michelle Dockery made hearts sing when she accepted Matthew Crawley’s marriage proposal. In real life, the actress is making sweet music with a female member of the cast.
Dockery, 30, is recording an album of songs with Elizabeth McGovern, 50, who plays her mother, the Countess of Grantham, in ITV’s popular period drama. “It’s going to come out later in the year,” McGovern tells Mandrake at a private screening of the film My Week With Marilyn, hosted by Colin Firth at the Covent Garden Hotel. Dockery says: “It’s been so much fun. Elizabeth is a great songwriter.” The Essex-born actress performed a memorable on-screen duet with Crawley, played by Dan Stevens, a columnist on The Sunday Telegraph’s Seven magazine. Away from the cameras, Dockery prefers to sing jazz and has performed live with McGovern’s band, Sadie and the Hotheads. –Telegraph
Gurinder Chadha told Mandrake last year that her film Bend It Like Beckham, which made a star of Keira Knightley, would be turned into a West End musical. Knightley, who turns 27 in March, should not, however, become too excited about reprising her role.