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.

She said that Jessica Brown Findlay always had acting in the back of her mind but was never really able to go out and try it. Her great-grandfather William Brown Findlay who was born in Glasgow incorporated his own middle name into his surname. After encouragement from an art teacher Jessica Brown Findlay finiJessica Brown Findlayd her education at Arts Educational School Tring Park and then onto a Fine Art course at St Martin’s.

Jessica Brown Findlay (born 14 September 1989) is an English actress best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey and Emelia Conan-Doyle in the British comedy-drama Albatross.