Michelle Dockery: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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Recorded Michelle Dockery said elsewhere, not written here

Carrie and Aidan not ending up together.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2020 source ↗

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Cynthia Nixon American actress and politician

When I was about 15, I auditioned to play Alice In Wonderland on Broadway, and they cast someone else. I never got over it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2017 source ↗

Gemma Whelan English actress

The fans’ reaction at the end of Game Of Thrones because I think it was brilliant.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 January 2020 source ↗

Jacqueline Wilson English novelist

When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2022 source ↗

Josette Simon British actor

That my parents and my siblings were so shocked and appalled by my changing my path, from university to deciding to be an actor, that they have never seen anything I’ve done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2022 source ↗