Downton Abbey - New cast members for Season 2

Carnival Films and ITV today announced 5 new actors who will be joining the key cast of Downton Abbey when they begin filming series two this spring.

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

There's also a suggestion that Angela Lansbury has been cast as Lady Elizabeth Crawley (stated on IMDb but that is not always accurate)

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