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Lesley Nicol
A veteran performer on the English stage and television since the mid-1980s, actress Leslie Nicol vaulted to international fame as the imperious cook, Mrs. Patmore, on "Downton Abbey (ITV/PBS, 2010-16). For much of her early career, Nicol divided her time between bit and supporting roles on television and in theater productions, with her first feature coming more than a decade after her first small-screen appearance on the hit U.K. comedy "East is East" (1999).
By the year 2000, she had advanced to major roles in musicals like "Mamma Mia!" and a recurring turn in TV advertisements for Tetley Tea. But it was "Downton Abbey" that thrust Nicol, like many of its performers, into the international spotlight, where public television viewers around the world delighted in her iron rule of the Crawley estate's kitchen staff, as well as her increasingly matronly relationship with Sophie McShera's maid, Daisy. The exposure afforded by "Downton" led to roles in American television, but more importantly, a second act to a career that seemed at long last pointed towards more subs
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Born in 1953, to a mother who had worked in television, Lesley Nicol was a shy 16-year-old at St. Elphin's Boarding School in Derbyshire when she expressed a desire to go out and see the world - not, she recalls, to be an actress but to kiss boys. She went to a technical college in Manchester to study for her 'A'-level examinations and, whilst there, she got involved with the Manchester Library Theatre. She was paid a pound a week to play a tiny role as a 12-year-old boy in Shaw's 'Androcles and the Lion'. It was her first and last role there but she was encouraged to apply for entry to London's Guildhall School of drama, from where she graduated in the early 1970s. For several years she was best known as a stage actress, particularly in musicals, appearing in 'Mama Mia', 'Our House', the show based on the hit songs of Madness, and as Little Buttercup in a revival, with Gary Wilmot ,of 'HMS Pinafore'. She was also the original stage neighbor, nosy Auntie Annie, in the play 'East Is East' at the Royal Court, reprising th
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Lesley Nicol
ACTOR
1953 - Today
Lesley Nicol
Lesley Nicol (born 7 August 1953) is an English actress, a three-time SAG Award winner in the Best Cast in a Drama Series category for her role as Beryl Patmore in the ITV and PBS drama TV series Downton Abbey. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lesley Nicol has received more than 13,477 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Lesley Nicol is the 6,521st most popular actor (down from 4,459th in 2019), the 4,798th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,515th in 2019) and the 736th most popular British Actor.
Memorability Metrics
13k
Page Views (PV)
51.63
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
2.39
Effective Languages (L*)
3.18
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among ACTORS
Among actors, Lesley Nicol ranks 6,521 out of 13,578. Before her are Songül Öden, Rocky Carroll, Richard Brake, Austin Pendleton, Ann Doran, and Patricia Richardson. After her are Tamara Tunie, Marianna Hill, Lília
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