---
name: "Laura Carmichael"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-carmichael"
fi1m_id: "laura-carmichael"
imdb_id: "nm3882295"
tmdb_id: 224194
wikidata_id: "Q3218669"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 July 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T16:30:13.143584+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Laura Carmichael

## Identity

Laura Carmichael

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laura-carmichael
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laura-carmichael
- **IMDb ID:** nm3882295
- **TMDB ID:** 224194
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3218669
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Carmichael, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3218669, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3882295/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224194

Actor. Born 16 July 1986 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 July 1986, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** Laura Elizabeth Carmichael , Лаура Кармайкл
- **Frequently works with:** [Hugh Bonneville](https://film.one/person/hugh-bonneville.md), [Julian Fellowes](https://film.one/person/julian-fellowes.md), [Gareth Neame](https://film.one/person/gareth-neame.md), [Jim Carter](https://film.one/person/jim-carter.md), [Liz Trubridge](https://film.one/person/liz-trubridge.md), [Michael Engler](https://film.one/person/michael-engler.md), [Michelle Dockery](https://film.one/person/michelle-dockery.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (3), 2020s 61 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 69 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 2, History 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $384m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Carmichael, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3218669, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3882295/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224194

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Downton Abbey*](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-2019.md) (64), [*Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale*](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale.md) (61)
- **Apple TV:** [*Downton Abbey*](https://film.one/tv/downton-abbey.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Laura Carmichael

> Laura Carmichael made her name as Lady Edith, the Crawley sister who starts out overshadowed and slowly stops being. It is careful ensemble work rather than the kind we single out, and her more interesting choices have come away from the house.

Lady Edith Crawley is the sister at the dinner table whose news nobody asks after. Across six series of *Downton Abbey* (2010–2015) and three films after it, Carmichael played her as the overshadowed one, and the job was to let the character find her feet so gradually that you only notice afterwards how far she has travelled. It is patient, unglamorous work, done in rooms where somebody else is usually saying the line everyone will repeat. It is also the reason most people know her name.

The career divides around the house. Before it there was Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, a 2007 graduation, fringe theatre and odd jobs. Then came Julian Fellowes, with whom she has now worked nine times, and a part she has said was "much more fun" than the "wet, ingénue parts" she was handed at drama school. The film work alongside it has been mostly small parts in large ensembles: Sal in *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (2011), Muriel Williams in *A United Kingdom* (2016). The leads have come on television, in *Marcella* (2016), *The Spanish Princess* (2019–2020) and *The Secrets She Keeps* (2020–2022), where as Agatha Fyfle she was asked to hold a psychological thriller rather than a teacup. She has kept up the stage as well, with *Uncle Vanya* (2012) and *Private Lives* (2023) in the West End.

We should be honest about our own record. We have reviewed *Downton Abbey* twice, the series and *Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale* (2025), and both times we wrote about the cast without stopping on her. Of the series we said the cast never lets it down, and she is part of that. Of the finale we said Michelle Dockery carries what weight there is, and we stand by it; we were faintly sorry, when the lights came up, to realise we had spent the whole film watching Dockery when Edith had been in most of the same rooms. That is not a complaint about Carmichael so much as a description of the part. Edith is written to be looked past, and Carmichael has never once played against the writing to make sure we look.

The period casting has followed her, as it tends to follow anyone who has spent that long in a corset, and the reputation that goes with it is quietly positive and almost without dissent, which is its own kind of limit. Nobody has had reason to argue about her yet. *The Secrets She Keeps* is the one to try if you know her only as the middle Crawley, and the one we will be watching for more of. Now the doors at Downton have closed, the interesting question is whether she goes on being the person everyone else at the table forgets, or finds a director who will not let it.

## Biography

Laura Carmichael is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2007.

She is known for playing Lady Edith Crawley in the television series *Downton Abbey* (2010–2015) and the films *Downton Abbey* (2019), *Downton Abbey: A New Era* (2022) and *Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale* (2025). Other credits include *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (2011), *Madame Bovary* (2015), *A United Kingdom* (2016), *Burn Burn Burn* (2016), *The Spanish Princess* (2019) and *Marcella* (2016). She is a member of The Fitzrovia Radio Hour.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale* (2025), Fi1m 61, as Lady Edith — [page](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale.md)
- *Downton Abbey* (2019), Fi1m 64, as Edith Crawley — [page](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-2019.md)
- *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (2011), Fi1m 84, as Sal — [page](https://film.one/film/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.md)
- *Downton Abbey* (2010), Fi1m 75, as Edith Crawley — [page](https://film.one/tv/downton-abbey.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale* (2025), as Lady Edith — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale.md)
- *Legs* (2022), Actor
- *Downton Abbey: A New Era* (2022), as Edith Crawley
- *A Wild Year On Earth* (2020), series, as Narrator
- *The Secrets She Keeps* (2020), series, as Agatha Fyfle
- *Downton Abbey* (2019), as Edith Crawley — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-2019.md)
- *The Spanish Princess* (2019), series, as Maggie Pole
- *Man in an Orange Shirt* (2017), series, as Daphne
- *A United Kingdom* (2016), as Muriel Williams
- *Burn Burn Burn* (2016), as Seph
- *Marcella* (2016), series, as Maddy Stevenson
- *Madame Bovary* (2015), as Henriette
- *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (2011), as Sal — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.md)
- *Downton Abbey* (2010), series, as Edith Crawley — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/downton-abbey.md)
- *A Night at Claridge’s*, as Miss Roach

## Gallery

- ![On 12 September 2019, the British Embassy hosted the U.S. premiere of the Downton Abbey film](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-5b1135f80e0b.jpg) On 12 September 2019, the British Embassy hosted the U.S. premiere of the Downton Abbey film — UKinUSA from Washington, D.C., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Laura_Carmichael_%2848755229068%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Carmichael_%2848755229068%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![On 12 September 2019, the British Embassy hosted the U.S. premiere of the Downton Abbey film](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-2c72fa29c6fe.jpg) On 12 September 2019, the British Embassy hosted the U.S. premiere of the Downton Abbey film — UKinUSA from Washington, D.C., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Laura_Carmichael_%2848755229068%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laura Carmichael](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-c8ec9b8cc256.jpg) Laura Carmichael — Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Laura_Carmichael_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York.jpg/1280px-Laura_Carmichael_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laura Carmichael at September 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Premiere in New York.](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-33fb98baf9ed.jpg) Laura Carmichael at September 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Premiere in New York. — Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Laura_Carmichael_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Carmichael_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laura Carmichael](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-1957fb0fc1fe.jpg) Laura Carmichael — Image via TMDB
- ![Laura Carmichael](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-e8b39e83ed56.jpg) Laura Carmichael — Image via TMDB
- ![Laura Carmichael](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-e1d3feb710c6.jpg) Laura Carmichael — Image via TMDB
- ![Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, and Laura Carmichael at September 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Premiere in New York.](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-167de4ffa957.jpg) Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, and Laura Carmichael at September 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Premiere in New York. — Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Michelle_Dockery%2C_Elizabeth_McGovern%2C_and_Laura_Carmichael_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York.jpg/1280px-Michelle_Dockery%2C_Elizabeth_McGovern%2C_and_Laura_Carmichael_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laura Carmichael](https://film.one/media/person/7998/gallery-788de1c5c770.jpg) Laura Carmichael — Image via TMDB

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