New faces in Downton Abbey's second season

Here are some of the new cast members that will be joining the second season of Downton Abbey...

TOP: Nicholas Blatt as Brookes

Christine Lohr as Mrs Bird (returning character)
Clare Calbraith as Jane Moorsum
Michael Cochrane (unspecified)
BOTTOM: Tom Feary-Campbell as Captain Smiley
Trevor White as Patrick Gordon
Lachlan Nieboer as Lieutenant Edward Courtenay
Kevin McNally (husband of Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) will play father of soldier)

Other minor characters...

Cassandra Chivers (nurse)
Claudia Glynn (housemaid)
Gwendolen Chatfield (feather girl)
Jack Pollock (hall boy)
James Brennan (wounded soldier)
James Canavan (ex-soldier)
Jenny Patrone (nurse)
Jeremy Clyde (listed in Imdb)
Julian Wadham (listed in Imdb)
Lucy Scarfe (kitchen maid)
Paul Copley (listed in Imdb)
Richard Hansell (medical officer)



Actors previously mentioned

Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Tudors) as Vera Bates (wife of John Bates)

Iain Glen (Spooks, Wives & Daughters) as Sir Richard Carlisle
Zoe Boyle (Sons of Anarchy) as Miss Lavinia Swire
Cal Macaninch (Wild At Heart, Holby Blue) as Lang, a new valet
Amy Nuttall (Emmerdale Farm, Hotel Babylon) as new housemaid Ethel
Daniel Pirrie is listed as Major Bryant (3 episodes)

[Cast in Christmas Special]
Nigel Havers will play Lord Hepworth
Sharon Small will play Marigold Shore
(maid to Lady Rosamond played by Samantha Bond)

Source: casting company, IMDb

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