Joanne Froggart takes pictures on her phone as she films scenes for Downton Abbey season five

MAIL ON LINE
By NOLA OJOMU
PUBLISHED: 12:38 EST, 26 April 2014 | UPDATED: 08:16 EST, 27 April 2014

Her character - Anna Bates - was at the centre of one of the most shocking storylines of Downton Abbey during the last series.

And now Joanne Froggatt is back on set to films scenes for season five of the popular ITV drama.

With fans eager to see their favourite characters back on screen, all eyes will be on Anna, Lady's Maid to Lady Mary Crawley, as she and her husband John Bates move forward after the death of her attacker.

With her blonde hair hidden under a black hat, the actress also sports gloves as her character makes her way to her destination.

In between takes, Joanne kept warm in mauve puffy jacket black sheepskin boots as she took a few pictures of the set on her smartphone.



Plot details for the new series, slated for an autumn return, are being kept under wraps, but Hugh Bonneville, (Lord Grantham), Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary), Allen Leech (Tom Branson) and Daisy Lewis (Sarah Bunting) have also been filming over the past week.

Rob James-Collier, (Thomas Barrow) will make a return and show favourite, Dame Maggie Smith was also seen back in costume as her character, Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham.

New faces on the show are expected, including Richard E. Grant, who will play Simon Bricker, an art historian who is a house guest of the Crawley family.


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Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Allen Leech, Dame Maggie Smith, back in character as the Dowager alongside co-star Penelope Wilton (also Rob James-Collier) as Downton Abbey series 5 gets under way

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By FAY STRANG
PUBLISHED: 15:01 EST, 23 April 2014 | UPDATED: 05:11 EST, 24 April 2014



Her character, Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, is without a doubt one of the best loved character on Downton Abbey.

 So fans of the period drama will be pleased to see Dame Maggie Smith back in costume while filming scenes for the fifth series in Bampton Village, Oxfordshire on Wednesday.

The actress was joined by Penelope Wilton, who plays Isobel Crawly – the mother of the late Matthew, who is known for her amusing relationship with the Dowager.

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Michelle Dockery reveals she won't be leaving Downton Abbey for Hollywood any time soon

EXPRESS
By: Kelby McNallyPublished: Fri, February 28, 2014

FANS of period drama Downton Abbey were left happy this morning after Michelle Dockery revealed that she has no plans to leave the drama for the bright lights of Hollywood.

The actress, who has become a household name thanks to her role as Lady Mary, admitted that so long as the producers keep on making the episodes then she will be a part of it.

"I am sticking with the show for however long the producers want it to go," she revealed in an interview on This Morning.

"We don't know how long it's going to go on for. We're on series five now."

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More ‘Downton Abbey’ Is Ordered Up

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Hugh Bonneville, left, and Jim Carter of “Downton Abbey.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

By ROBIN POGREBIN

November 10, 2013

The fourth season recently completed its run in Britain, where it drew an average of 11.8 million viewers, making it the highest-rated television drama there this year. The third season finale of “Downton Abbey” attracted 8.2 million viewers in the United States earlier this year.

“We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy,” said Gareth Neame, the show’s executive producer and the managing director of Carnival Films, said in a statement. Paula Kerger, the president and chief executive of PBS, said: “I can’t wait to see what’s next for the Crawley family.”

The fourth season is scheduled to begin in the United States in January.


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