Downton Abbey - Season 5 - First Promo

Carnival Films and ITV today announced Sue Johnston is joining Series 5 of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama Downton Abbey in a guest role.

Sue Johnston (Waking the Dead, The Royle Family, Coronation Street) will join the cast as Denker, Lady’s Maid to Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham.

Johnston joins other guest actors, Richard E. Grant, Anna Chancellor and Rade Sherbedgia, Dame Harriet Walter who reprises her role as Lady Shackleton and Peter Egan who returns as Lord Flintshire.
Downton Abbey returns this autumn with a fifth series and again at Christmas 2014 with a feature length episode.