Pregnant Michelle Dockery posed with her glamorous Downton Abbey co-stars Joanne Froggatt and Laura Carmichael at the NYC premiere afterparty on Monday.
The radiant actress, 43, stepped out for the event days after making her surprise pregnancy announcement at the London premiere of The Grand Finale film last week.
Michelle, who plays Lady Mary Crawley, looked gorgeous in a sparkling black gown, with the body-hugging fit showing off her growing bump.
On her left Joanne, 45, who plays Anna Bates, wowed in a glittering strapless number which she teamed with strappy silver heels.
And on her right Laura, 39, who plays Lady Edith Crawley, cut a sophisticated figure in a nude number which she accessorised with a sleek black handbag.
Their co-star Elizabeth McGovern, 64, who plays Cora Crawley, was seen at the after party with her director husband Simon Curtis.
Pregnant Michelle Dockery posed with her glamorous Downton Abbey co-stars Joanne Froggatt (left) and Laura Carmichael (right) at the NYC premiere afterparty on Monday night
The radiant actress, 43, stepped out for the event days after making her surprise pregnancy announcement at the London premiere of The Grand Finale film last week
Michelle married producer Jasper Waller-Bridge, 37, in 2023 in a romantic ceremony attended by her Downton Abbey co-stars.
The star was left heartbroken in 2015 when her fiancé, Irish publicist John Dineen, died following a 15-month battle against a rare form of cancer aged 34.
The Mail on Sunday first revealed that Michelle had found love for the first time following his passing after they met through his star sister Phoebe Waller-Bridge in 2019.
In January 2022 they announced they were to marry in a notice in The Times newspaper.
Family patriarch Lord Grantham, aka Hugh Bonneville, as well as Allen Leech (Tom Branson), Paul Giamatti (Harold Levinson) and series creator Julian Fellowes, also posed on the star-studded red carpet.
Last week Hugh, 61, attended the London premiere with his new girlfriend Heidi Kadlecova as they made a rare appearance in public together.
The stars were gathered to celebrate the finale of the beloved Downton Abbey, after an incredible 15 years of the TV series and a trilogy of movies.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, which releases September 12, is set in 1930, some 18 years after the first episode.
Michelle, who plays Lady Mary Crawley, looked gorgeous in a sparkling black gown, with the body-hugging fit showing off her growing bump
On her left Joanne, 45, who plays Anna Bates, wowed in a glittering strapless number which she teamed with strappy silver heels
Their co-star Elizabeth McGovern, 64, who plays Cora Crawley, was seen at the after party with her director husband Simon Curtis
Allen Leech, who played Tom Branson in the ITV period drama, posed with his wife Jessica Blair Herman
Actress Taylor Richardson posed with Elias Wachtel
Actors Paul Giamatti and Alessandro Nivola posed together
It follows the Crawley family in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash and Lady Mary’s scandalous divorce.
It puts into question her eligibility to inherit the Downton Abbey estate from her father Lord Grantham, played by Hugh Bonneville, who faces a dilemma on whether she is fit to run the place amid the public scrutiny.
Meanwhile, tribute is paid in the film to the late Dame Maggie Smith’s character the Dowager Countess of Grantham. Dame Maggie died last September, and this will be the first Downton series or motion picture she has not acted in.
Elsewhere, the family faces financial trouble as the household ‘grapples with the threat of social disgrace’.
As ever, the Crawleys must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
It comes as the creator of Downton Abbey has claimed that British people have a ‘curious double standard’ of hating the rich but still wanting to be rich themselves.
Julian Fellowes criticised attitudes towards money, wealth and success in the UK in comparison to the United States.
L-R: Allen Leech, Elizabeth McGovern, Joanne Froggatt, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Hugh Bonneville
Christine Baranski and producer Gareth Neame
Writer Julian Fellowes was also in attendance
Elizabeth looked stunning in an orange and pink gown as she posed with her husband
Hugh Bonneville looked smart in a grey suit
He posed with director Jack Robbins
Julian was joined by his wife Emma
He said in an interview with Radio Times that he thinks it is ‘ungenerous’ not to admire people who have done well for themselves.
The Tory peer explained: ‘Britain has this curious double standard of hating the rich and hating anyone who has been very successful, and yet wanting it.
‘I don’t get it. It seems to me ungenerous not to admire people who have done very well.’
He added: ‘Even when I was a struggling actor – which I can tell you is not the easiest of existences – if I met someone who’d had success and become a movie star, I’d think, “Good luck to them”.’
