Jessica Brown Findlay

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary.

I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed from that side when I do emotional close-ups in 'Downton.'

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.