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'Downton Abbey' adds cast members for season three
Published: 2/28/2012 9:21 AM
Last Modified: 2/28/2012 9:38 AM


"Downton Abbey" will return to PBS with its story of love and intrigue at an English country estate next January. NICK BRIGGS/ITV for MASTERPIECE

"Downton Abbey" is getting a new kitchen maid, a footman and a ladies’ maid.
Word is that the hit Edwardian drama, which completed its second season Feb. 19 and is starting production on a third season, has cast Cara Theobald as a kitchen maid named Ivy and Lucille Sharp as Miss Reid, a lady’s maid, according to digitalspy.com.

Matt Milne, star of the Steven Spielberg-produced film "War Horse," has been cast as a footman named Alfred, supposedly a nephew of lady's maid O'Brien (played by Siobhan Finnernan).

Previously announced was the addition of Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine as Lady Cora's American mother Martha Levinson.

She was on set last week working ont he series and tweeted about shooting in the wind and rain and working with Dame Maggie Smith, who plays Lady Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham.

"Amazing day on Downton Abbey set. I love the British humor and temperament and functionality. Maggie is so subtle and so much fun!" she tweeted. Her tweets have since been deleted.

Lesley Nicol (who plays cook Mrs. Patmore), Sophie McShera (Daisy) and Allen Leech (chauffeur Branson)), joined by Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley), talk a bit about the third season expected to premiere in England in September and the United States in January 2013.





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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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