I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.