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Anna May Bates (née Smith) (played by Joanne Froggatt) (b. 1886) is lady's maid to Lady Mary at Downton Abbey; previously she was first parlour maid and head housemaid. She is 26 at the beginning of the series. She is very trustworthy, polite, and loyal to the Crawley family and her "downstairs" co-workers.
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- Biography
- The Finale
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Violet: "I'm so looking forward to seeing your mother again. When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English."
Matthew: "But isn't she American?"
Violet: "Exactly."
— Violet, speaking to Cora and Matthew about Martha Levinson.
Violet expresses her distaste of how Edith and Bertie parted, this prompts Mary to arrange a surprise meeting between the two. Violet is overjoyed when Edith and Bertie decide to get married and attends the wedding, at the wedding she speaks with Lady Rosamund Painswick about English traits. Later she happily toasts to the new year alongside her da...
Series 1
"What is a weekend?" —at the dinner table when Matthew is talking about his free time on the weekend "No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house." —after Kemal Pamuk died at Downton Abbey "One can’t go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We’d all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper." —after Mary is so sad about the death of Mr. Pamuk Matthew: "They were invented by Thomas Jefferson." Violet: "Why does every day involve a fight with an American?" — regarding a swivel chair in Matthew's office "Your quarrel is with my daughter, Rosamund, and not with me. So put that in your pipe and smoke it." —to Isobel "What's the matter? I have plenty of friends I don't like." —to Robert "No, she isn’t, until she is married. And then her husband will tell her what her opinions are." —about Lady Sybil's political views "If she won’t say yes when he might be poor, he won’t want her when he will be rich." —referring to Matthew's prospects during Cora's pregnancy "We can't have him assassinated I suppose." —referring to the Turkish ambassador Violet: "You are quite wonderful the way you see improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal." Isobel: "I take that as a compliment." Violet: "I must have said it wrong." —
Series 2
"Oh, that's a relief. I hate Greek drama. When everything happens off stage." —when she learns that Mary and Matthew won't meet at the train "Anna, help me do battle with this monstrosity. It looks like a creature from the lost world." —referring to Cora's flowers "Well, I suppose looks aren't everything." —to Cora about Lavinia "Edith, you are a Lady, not Toad of Toad Hall." — "I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose." — "Oh, really! It's like living in a second-rate hotel, where the guests keep arriving and no one seems to leave." —on the soldiers who staying at the convalescent home at Downton Abbey "Is this an instrument of communication or torture?" —while using the telephone "Finally I would point out, your living is in Lord Grantham's gift. Your house is on Lord Grantham's land, and the very flowers in your church are from Lord Grantham's garden. I hope it is not vulgar in me to suggest that you find some way to overcome your scruples." —to Albert Travis when he refuses to perform the marriage of William Mason and Daisy "I don't dislike him, I just don't like him. Which is quite different." —Episode 2.06 "Oh, I should steer clear of May. Marry in May, rue the day." —about Lavinia's wedding plans "No doubt you will regard this as rather unorthodox, my pushing into a man's bedroom uninvited." —to Matthew "Marriage is a long business. There's no getting out of it for our kind of people. You may live 40, 50 years with one of these women. Just make sure it's the right one." —to Matthew about Lavinia and Mary "I was watching her the other night, when you spoke of your wedding. She looked like Juliet on awakening in the tomb." —to Matthew after he announced his wedding plans with Lavinia "Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class." —to Edith as she is arranging wedding presents and wonders if she might ever be a bride herself "The plot thickens." —at dinner table when Sybil's admits that she might have tried to run away with Tom once "I do hope I'm interrupting something." —as she enters Sybil's room "Now, Sybil, dear, this sort of thing is all very well in novels, but in reality, it can prove very uncomfortable." —about Sybil's plans to marry Tom and live in Ireland "What is this driving mania?" — "You'll find there's never a dull moment in this house." —to Carlisle when Carson becomes ill Violet: "Wasn’t there a masked ball in Paris when cholera broke out? Half the guests were dead before they left the ballroom." Robert: "Thank you, Mama. You've cheered us up to no end." — after Carson, Cora, and Lavinia become ill with Spanish flu Cora: "I might send her over to visit my aunt, she could get to know New York." Violet: "Oh, I don't think things are quite that desperate." — about Mary's situation with the threat of the exposure of her tryst with Kemal Pamuk "1920! Is it to be believed? I feel old as Methuselah!" —on New Year's Day right after midnight "Sir Richard, life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous." —to Sir Richard while playing pantomime "When I think what the last 10 years has brought. God knows what we're in for now." —at New Year "Do you promise?" —her reply when the jilted Sir Richard declares they will probably never meet again Matthew: "Sorry about the vase" Violet: "Oh, don't be, don't be. It was a wedding present from a frightful aunt. I have hated it for half a century." — to Matthew after he breaks a vase while fighting Sir Richard Carlisle
Series 3
Violet: "Are you really that tall?" Alfred: "Yes, Milady." Violet: "Thought you might have been walking on stilts." — to the new footman, Alfred Nugent "Branson, I mean Tom, you're a member of the family now. You'll find we Crawleys stick together." —to her grandson-in-law "Forgive? Perhaps. Forget? Never!" —after Tom was drugged by Larry Grey to make Tom appear drunk and Cora asks the guests to forget about the incident "I'm so sorry, I thought you were a waiter." —son, in reference to the fact that he was wearing black tie at what should have been a white tie event. "At my age one must ration one's excitement." —to Edith during the preparation for her wedding Robert: "Why dwell on that now?" Violet: "Because I want the pleasure of saying 'I told you so'." — "Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit." —to Sybil the night before Edith's wedding "My dear, when tragedies strike, we try to find someone to blame. And in the absence of a suitable candidate, we usually blame ourselves. You are not to blame. No one is to blame. Our darling Sybil has died during childbirth, like too many women before her; and all we can do now is cherish her memory, and her child." —after Sybil died and Cora blames Robert for it "It seems a pity to miss such a good pudding." —at the luncheon at Isobel's house prepared by Ethel "Since we have a country solicitor and a car mechanic, it was only a matter of time." —in response to Edith becoming a journalist. That's the thing about nature; there's so much of it.•"I agree. But then, we don't always get our just desserts."
May 26, 2022 · The actress, 87, only signed on to each season of the original series on an annual basis, according to producer Gareth Neame — and it was never inevitable that she would stay forever. Neame also ...
- Lady Edith Crawley. Edith finally got her happy ending. Mary slyly arranged for Edith to have dinner at the Ritz with Bertie, who professed his love for the unlucky sister.
- Lady Mary Crawley. Most of Mary’s melodrama took place early on in the season, so the finale showed her as a contented wife. She had her happy ending as well, of course, announcing her first pregnancy with new husband Henry Talbot.
- Robert and Cora Crawley, Lord and Lady Grantham. Robert and Cora, who’ve had their own marital struggles, saw both their surviving daughters happy. They also learned to appreciate the modern direction their life was headed, with Cora modernizing her Lady Grantham title by running the hospital.
- Henry Talbot and Tom Branson. The two Downton men, who both sought a higher calling after marrying into the Crawley family, opened a used car shop.
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