Jessica Brown Findlay

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 don't know if I'm so righteous.

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.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.