Shirley MacLaine joins 'Downton Abbey'
Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine is joining Britain’s popular television series “Downton Abbey.” She will play the mother of Lady Grantham, portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern, in the third season of the hit period drama. Credit: Getty Images
Well how about this? Shirley MacLaine will join "Downton Abbey" next season as the American mother of Elizabeth McGovern's character, Lady Grantham. Announcement was made a little while ago. Per the PBS press release:
Mark those words "toe-to-toe with Maggie Smith's Lady Violet." That's obviously where this is going but the additional gives a nice and needed dimension to Lady Grantham too -- who is after all so vital to the show and about whose U.S. provenance is so little known. (Heiress...father is a dry goods titan from some place like Cincinatti...and so forth.)
A recently posted McGovern interview, by the way, about Americans versus the British on the show...
Watch Downton Abbey: Elizabeth McGovern on Americans vs. The British on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.
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