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The  BBC  announced In August 2010 that the new series would consist of three one-hour episodes, with the actors: Keeley Hawes  ,  Ed Stoppard  ,  Anne Reid  ,  Claire Foy  , Adrian Scarborough  ,  Art Malik  ,  Ellie Kendrick  and also  Nico Mirallegro , Jean Marsh  and  Eileen Atkins  play with it. In the new series is to see in the role of Jean Marsh as Rose Buck any original member of the old series. Buck now has a maid? s Office. She returns to 165 Eaton Place as a housekeeper by the new owners, the Holland family.In the middle of August 2010, filming began in  Cardiff  , with parts of the city transformed into 1930 Belgravia environment for exterior scenes, and the interiors were filmed at the BBC's studios in Llandaff North Cardiff. Further recordings by outdoor scenes took place in  Leamington Spa  ,  Warwickshire  in september 2010 with a terrace in Clarendon Square. The new Upstairs Downstairs was scheduled for broadcast on BBC One on 26 december 2010, with the first episode. A soundtrack album of music from the new series of composer Daniel Pemberton is also scheduled for release on iTunes. The three episodes are/were also broadcast by foreign broadcasters, including ABC in  Australia ,  New Zealand , Sky in DR in  Denmark ,  Finland , TLE in IBA in  Israel  and TV4 in  Sweden . The  NCRV  has the three episodes broadcast on 26, 27 and 28 december 2011 on Netherlands 2 and  One  on 14, 21 and 28 February 2012.  BBC One  now has six 60-minute episodes planned by the drama to be broadcast in the course of 2012.
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Richard Bellamy
Played by  David Langton  , Richard Bellamy, Viscount Bellamy of Haversham, is the youngest son of a pastor. As a young man he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, where he excelled. In 1880 he married the rich Lady Marjorie Talbot-Carey and was conservative member of Parliament. They had two children, James and Elizabeth. After the death of Lady Marjorie, he married Virginia Hamilton, a war widow. By this time he moved up as Secretary of State related to the Admiralty in the Balfour Ministry and he is later he is also the Viscount Bellamy of Haversham.
Lady Marjorie Bellamy
Played by  Rachel Gurney : Lady Marjorie was born on 6 may 1860, or according to another episode 12 July 1864, in Southwold, Wiltshire in the home of her wealthy parents, Walter Talbot-Carey, 12th Earl of Southwold and Mabel, the Countess of Southwold. The count had a major role in the conservative party. She had a brother, Hugo, Viscount Ashby, who later became 13th Earl of Southwold.
Despite the objections of her parents, she went in 1880 married to the youngest son of a rural pastor, Richard Bellamy and they went to live in a Grand Victorian mansion that Lady Marjories father the Earl of Southwold belonged at Eaton Place in London's fashionable Belgravia. They had two children, James (born 1881) and Elizabeth (born 1887). Shortly before their marriage, was Richard become a conservatieveparlementslid with the help of his father-in-law.
In the summer of 1906, she had an affair with a much younger man, Charles Victor Hammond, a captain in the Khyber Rifles and a friend of her son. After the affair was going on a while he asked her to go with him to take the legs, but she refused because she realized that her duty was to stay with her family. Her lover was later, when he was a major, killed during a battle in India in 1909. In a later episode, came a man (Mr. Dooley) who personally tutor was Hammond's military with a package love letters they had written to him. He was turned away at the front door by Hudson (the butler) as an "unwashed Irish vagrant", but he went to the stables to Thomas to the driver. In a blackmail attempt by the driver, who had gotten the letters, he got after negotiations with Lady Marjorie and Richard Bellamy, without that they knew each other, money, in the end it was the result that Dooley without money in prison ended.
They always had problems with her two children. Elizabeths marriage ran out on a divorce and James, always her favorite, had an affair with the maid Sarah who was expecting a child from him. James was sent to India and Sarah was brought to Southwold, but returned to Eaton Place in May 1909 because they felt unhappy there. Sarah was busy giving birth while the King above was dining with the Bellamys. However, her child was stillborn.
On 15 april 1912 Lady Marjorie and her waiting-woman went, Miss Roberts, along with the brother of Lady Majorie and his new wife the widow Marion Worsely as passengers with the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. They were both supposed to be dead, but Roberts survived the disaster. The next day that Roberts was rescued, along with other survivors, she was in a State of shock, so no one knew her identity, with the result that it was thought that Roberts and Lady Marjorie both were dead. Later when she came in a New York Hospital she realized who she was and then she went back to London.
James Bellamy
Played by  Simon Williams : James Bellamy is the son of Richard and Lady Marjorie Bellamy and the brother of Elizabeth. James Bellamy is one of the main characters in Upstairs, Downstairs, that in 37 episodes as an arrogant and selfish individual occurs but charming with his mother. He never recovered from her death in the sinking of the  Titanic  in 1912. James was educated at Eton and then he went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and 1904 he is Lieutenant in the Life Guards in the British army. In about 1908, James, now captain, starts an affair with the former MAID Sarah, who is now a music hall singer and that Elizabeth's wedding website. Soon, Sarah gets pregnant by James, which has debts of about € 1350. Sarah gives him a share of its profits. The family lawyer, Sir Geoffrey Dillon, Sarah goes to family of Lady Marjorie's House, in Southwold, and James goes to India with his regiment, although Lady Marjorie is furious over there that James was sent abroad. While he is gone, in the early months of 1909 Sarah returns, returns to Eaton Place. That same evening, they like a guy but who dies almost immediately. After a few failed relationships, marries James with Hazel Forrest, but their happiness is short lived due to their diverse background, it dies in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. James serves in the  first world war  , but is wounded severely at  Passendale  on the Western front in 1917. He commits suicide in 1929, after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crisis.
Elizabeth Bellamy
Played by  Nicola Pagett : Elizabeth Bellamy, later Elizabeth Kirbridge, born 1886 and is the daughter of Richard and Lady Marjorie Bellamy and the sister of James Bellamy. She is a socialististe and a Suffragette, she marries with poet Lawrence Kirbridge, but the marriage was Elizabeth Gets a daughter Lucy Elizabeth. Elizabeth moves to New York and marries there with Dana j. Wallace in about 1911, after which they never appears in the series.
Hazel Bellamy
Played by  Meg Wynn Owen : Hazel Forrest the first time in the episode "Miss Forrest" as a Secretary of Richard Bellamy. James Bellamy is immediately attracted to her, and marry them within two years, after initially rejecting her because she previously was married to an abusive alcoholic named Patrick O'Connor. The klassekloof soon between James and Hazel and disagreements. In the first months of 1914 has Hazel a miscarriage depression. James at the front during the war – as is – she is in love with a young Aviator named Jack Dyson, who dies in action. Hazel is particularly fond of Richard, Georgina and Rose, but Hudson accepts its middleclass, a woman, not as the mistress of the House. Hazel dies from the Spanish flu in the days before the first world war ends in 1918.
Virginia Bellamy
Played by  Hannah Gordon : Virginia, nursed step is the widow of a naval officer who was killed in action during the first world war. She meets Richard when she is going to ask for help to a Fund for the children of naval officers who have been killed in the fight. Virginia turns over about a year later, when her seventeen year old son Michael (currently serves as a Midshipman in the British Navy), for court martial because of cowardice. At the urging of Hazel, asks Richard to the family lawyer Sir Geoffrey Dillon for help. Michael is then killed in an action. Richard and Hazel are fond of Virginia and her two other children, Alice and William. Virginia and Richard go later get married and she is thereby Viscountess.
Georgina Worsley
Played by: Lesley-Anne Down , Georgina, Marchioness of Stockbridge (no Georgina Worsley, born in 1895), Lady Marjorie's brother Hugo is the stepdaughter of her natural father died when she was six years old. Her mother and stepfather die along with Lady Marjorie nThe the wreck of the Titanic in 1912, after which they moved to Eaton Place. She brings the war years as a nurse in France, among her patients is also her step-nephew James. During the twenties, joins the ranks of young people known as the "Bright Young Things"-mad empty-headed types, but change its ways after they accidentally kills a herder. She is rescued by the testimony of Robert, Marquis of Stockbridge, with whom she married in 1930.
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Lady Southwold
Played by actress  Cathleen Nesbitt : Lady Southwold Mabel was the mother of Lady Marjorie and grandmother of James and Elizabeth Bellamy. During a visit to the House of the Bellamys they allegedly lost a valuable brooch, and the suspicion of theft, to the staff. A jeweler who will arrive later at the House stated that Lady Southwold the brooch at the store had brought on to be repaired.
"Bunny," Marquess of Newbury
Played by  John Quayle : Lord Newberry, later the Marquis of Newberry and his friends known as ' Bunny ', he is the best friend of James Bellamy. A meek and quiet man, he married Lady Diana Russell.
Diana Newbury
Played by  Celia Bannerman : Diana, Marchioness of Newbury is a friend of James Bellamy, she married his best friend Bunny. Bring together a weekend by James and Diana after Hazel died, but James doesn't want to marry her as Diana was hoping for. She decides to return to Bunny.
Julius Karekin
Played by  Donald Burton ; Julius Karekin is a rich man and a very knowledgeable and talented stock broker of Armenian descent, he has an affair with the recently separated Elizabeth Kirbridge, to whom he gave both a hat shop, and a sum of money which successfully investment does with Elizabeth had inherited from her recently deceased grandfather. Karekin also buys 165 Eaton Place when the lease for sale is after the death of Lord Southwold, he then gives the Act to Elizabeth to her parents to save from eviction from the House.
Lady Dolly Hale
Played by  Madeleine Cannon : Lady Dorothy "Dolly" Beatrice Louisa Hale is one of the best friends of Georgina's and a colleague. Lady Dolly is the daughter of the Earl of Shelbourne and lives, in 1928 in Mayfair. In 1927, during a visit to Georgina, Lady Dolly meets Frederick, the lackey of Bellamy, and soon they start an affair. However, in the summer of 1928, do Lady Dolly, Georgina, Lord Stockbridge and three others took part in a treasure hunt, Georgina drives down to the ride to stop and she loses the wheel and kills a man on his bicycle. On the then next inquest, made Lady Dolly (who used cocaine), statements that harm Georgina's case.After the inquest, Georgina explained that she never wants to see Lady Dolly.
Lady Prudence Fairfax
Played by  Joan Benham : Lady Prudence Fairfax is the oldest and best friend of Lady Marjorie. She loves to gossip and is frivolous, but she keeps a close and trusted friend of the family until the end of the series. Lady Prudence was a widow with a grown daughter, named Agatha. At one point, after Lady Marjories death, visited Lady Prudence regularly the House and saw how Richard Bellamy and his son James got.
Lawrence Kirbridge
Played by  Ian Ogilvy  , the Socialist poet Lawrence Kirbridge Arthur is the first husband of Elisabeth or Wallace. If the affair and pregnancy come to light, he gets a benefit and leaves for overseas. Their marriage was on the rocks when Lawrence proved to be not interested in sex. He is the grandson of a baron from Dorset, he was educated at the University of Cambridge and married Elizabeth in June of 1908.
Robert, Marquess of Stockbridge
Played by  Anthony Andrews : Lord Robert Charles Algernon St. John Stockbridge, Marquis of Stockbridge is the son of the Duke and Duchess of Buckminster. He's a somewhat reluctant Member of wild social group of Georgina Worsley and Lady Dolly. He and Georgina are in love, but his parents insist that he first starts on a long trip around the world without her, before they give their consent to marry him, which they do in the summer of 1930.
Sir Geoffrey Dillon
Played by  Raymond Huntley : Sir Geoffrey Dillon is the family lawyer and notary of the Bellamy family and a personal friend of Richard and Lady Marjorie. His first loyalty is to the Talbot-Careys where he works, but he also often proves to be useful for the Bellamys.
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Angus Hudson = Butler and Chief of the staff
Played by  Gordon Jackson  he won an Emmy for (Supporting Actor, Single Performance, Comedy or Drama Series, for "The Beastly Hun."): Angus Hudson was the Scottish authoritarian butler in the household of Richard Bellamy, 165, Eaton Place in Belgravia, London.
Hudson was a well-educated man with a working class background, and although he is a bit narrow-minded in some of his views (in particular opposite Germans), he was essentially a fair, just and good-hearted man.He shows, on occasions, a sense of humor and makes occasional joking with the other employees and talk even about football matches with Edward the lackey! His talents lay in the Organization of the staff, his theological knowledge and also its beautiful handwriting, what is considered a great art, like every Christmas show when sending cards to friends and his brother in Scotland. He was portrayed as an exemplary butler, and his loyalty to the family Bellamy was without a doubt. This was a good thing too, because the Bellamy family had some shocking secrets.
He was the Chief of the staff and at first were that Mrs. Bridges (with whom he eventually married in the last episode of the series), the Irish Kitchen Maid Emily, the eccentric Footman Alfred Harris, the pragmatic head maid Rose Buck (and later waiting-woman), the naughty MAID Sarah Moffat, Coachman Pearce and Lady Marjorie's Lady 's-maid Maude Roberts. Later staff that comes under its authority, include the lackey Edward Barnes, dienstmeije Daisy Peel/Barnes and the silly Kitchen Maid Ruby Finch.
In the last episode, go Mrs. Bridges and Hudson would marry and move to a guest house by the sea to make their existence. By the death of Angela Beddeley not this plan went through.
Mrs. Kate Bridges = Cook
Played by  Angela Baddeley , who was twice nominated for an Emmy (outstanding performance by an actress in a supporting role).: Kate Bridges was the Cook in the House on Eaton Place in the entire series. In the first series episode "why is her door locked", Mrs Bridges makes mention of her husband who fifteen years earlier would have died, and in the episode with a visit to King Edward VII, told Lady Marjorie that their Cook no French chef is, but "a temperamental widow from Bristol." But in the third set in the final "The Sudden Storm", says Mr Hudson that there will never be a "Mr. Bridges" was, but that the term "Mrs" a courtesy that is usually applied to a cook in the household of a gentleman. In the last episode, are Bridges and Hudson married and would move to a guest house by the sea to make their existence. By the death of Gordon Jackson who plays the role of Hudson went not by this plan.
Rose Buck = head of the maids
Played by Jean Marsh  , who was nominated four times for an Emmy for best actress in a Drama Series and the Emmy won once. Along with  Eileen Atkins  she created the series. : Rose Buck began to work on 13-year old age all Porter and later became a star on the Southwold estate where Lady Marjorie was born and raised. She is the principal service girl later on Eaton Place 1903-1919 (including a brief period as a maid at Elizabeth Kirbridge), Bellamy's waiting-woman of 1919 and Virginia tot1930. During the first world war she works also as a ticket-taker.
Alfred Harris = Lackey
Played by  George Innes : Alfred Harris is the first lackey on Eaton Place in 1895. He flees from the House in disgrace in 1905 after discovering that he had a sexual intercourse with a guest, the German spy baron Klaus von Rimmer. He returns to the House in 1913 and looks for refuge after murdering his new employer and lover. Hudson tells all to Mr Bellamy, who the police warns. There will follow a dramatic confrontation, as Alfred Edward hostage with a knife. Alfred is later hanged.
Daisy Peel = Maid
Played by  Jacqueline Tong  , who once was nominated for an Emmy (special continuing performance by a supporting actress). : Daisy Barnes-Peel is a maid and later the principal service girl in the period 1919-1930, then she goes with her husband Edward work for the couple Stockbridge
Edward Barnes – house servant and lackey
Played by:  Christopher Beeny , Edward Barnes replaced Alfred as Footman in 1906, and continues until he leaves to go to the war in 1915, having just being married with Daisy. After the war, and after a short period in which he and Daisy leave, he is driver and butler under the Bellamys, and in 1930 he becomes butler of Lord and Lady Stockbridge.
Emily – Kitchen Maid
Played by  Evin Crowley : the Irish Kitchen Maid Emily Aoibhinn is known in the House as she is a very kind, awkward girl that is often scolded by Mrs. Bridges. In the episode I Dies From Love, are Emily and a lackey called William from the household of the girlfriend of Lady Bellamy, Mrs. Van Groeben, fallen in love with and want to get married. However, Lady Bellamy and Mrs. Van Groeben tell their employees that they may no longer see each other, and William conforms to it. After being a love letter that Emily wrote to him (and that he had never opened) sent back, Emily had a broken heart, and committed suicide.
Frederick Norton = Lackey
Played by  Gareth Hunt : Frederick Norton appears for the first time as James Bellamy's personal servant as he arrives at Eaton Place to return from the war with some of James's belongings if it is assumed that he was killed in October 1917. After the war, and after the departure of Edward, Frederick James, who is still in one piece if lackey hired by came back. In June 1927 Frederick and Lady Dolly Hale, begin an affair, and Frederick resigns to start a new life as a film actor and as an escort.
Lily Hawkins = Maid
Played by  Karen Dotrice  : Lily Hawkins (born in Shoreditch, London) comes at Eaton Place as onderdienstmeisje replacing Daisy, who left for a new life with Edward. Lily is a quiet, hard-working and caring girl. In the spring of 1924, Lily and Hudson bring their time together every now and then by Hudson to want to get married with her and gives. However, Lily Hudson sees more as a father figure. She leaves Eaton Place without telling someone something and goes to her widowed mother in Banbury.
Miss Maude Roberts = Waiting-Woman
Played by  Patsy Smart : Maude Roberts has long been Lady Marjorie's maid (or tutor). She's quite picky and is suspicious of the people around her, both above and below. During an afternoon tea in the space of the staff she reveals a little about himself to the other servants that she as a young woman by her father was caught with a young man. Unhappy about that, he sent her later in a household service, where she rose to her current position and that remained to date. In april 1912, Miss Roberts survives the sinking of the  Titanic  during the trip to America with Lady Marjorie, who drowns. After a week specified as Miss Roberts appears to be missing on no. 165, of the manifest to the surprise of the staff, which also assumed they had been killed. However, she is emotionally disturbed by the sinking and the loss of Lady Marjorie, and takes the blame personally, and is later sent by Richard a psychiatric hospital.
Pearce = Koetsier
Played by  Brian Osborne : Pearce whose first name is never revealed, is the Coachman from 1903 to 1909, when he is replaced by Thomas Watkins. According to the story, nothing with cars, and has Pearce returns to his previous position as head of the stable groom by Lady Wanborough.
Ruby Finch = Kitchen Maid
Played by:  Jenny Tomasin , Ruby Finch is the kitchen maid on Eaton Place. She was preceded by Doris, Nellie, and Emily. It is suggested that she is mentally impaired light several times. Ruby comes to Eaton Place in 1908 or 1909, just after the marriage of Elizabeth with Lawrence, but goes away in 1915 to work in a munitions factory in Silvertown. She returns in the beginning of the following year after the factory is destroyed by an explosion. She goes off again briefly in 1929 and going to work as a girl for a lady. In 1930 she goes along with Mr and Mrs Hudson to work in their guest house. (By the death of Gordon Jackson who plays the role of Hudson goes this plan not by)
Sarah Moffat = Maid
Played by  Pauline Collins  : Sarah Moffat (also known as Clémence Dumas, Clémence Moffat, and Sarah Delice), claims to be the daughter of Albert Moffat and Marianne Dumas and the great-granddaughter of Alexandre Dumas, Père. Illiterate and inexperienced, she is sent to Eaton Place by an agency for domestic servants. She gets the name Sarah by Lady Marjorie. She has quickly an unlikely friendship with the principal service girl, Rose. In June 1904, asks Richard Bellamy the painter Guthrie Scone to paint his wife. Sarah is going to deliver to his atIelier Lady Marjorie's dresses, and soon Scone also paint her. When both paintings are exhibited together as "the Mistress" and "The Maids", Sarah and Rose, who Scone painted also through Sarah's descriptions, they almost fired, but Scone persuades Richard to keep them. Two months later, leave Sarah brutalised by James Eaton Place. In 1908, turns Sarah returns to Eaton Place, but quickly goes away after she is accused of theft. She then begins a career as the music-hall entertainer Clémence Dumas/Sarah Delice, known for songs like "what are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?" Around the same time, she begins an affair with James Bellamy and becomes pregnant, resulting that James is sent to India. Sarah loses the baby and eventually she marries Bellamys driver Thomas Watkins, and they leave their position. Their lives after leaving Eaton Place is portrayed in the spin-off series Thomas & Sarah.
Thomas Watkins = Lackey later Driver
Played by  John Alderton  : Thomas David Watkins grew up in Wales. In June 1909 he becomes servant, Lawrence and Elizabeth Kirbridge, and later driver and friend of Rose. When the marriage of Lawrence and Elizabeth Thomas ends up being chauffeur at the Bellamys on Eaton Place, where he eventually Richard and Lady Marjorie blackmails and later with Sarah a garage begins.
Gregory Wilmot = Fiance of Rose
Played by  Keith Barron : Sergeant Gregory Walter Wilmot is the fiance of Rose. He is a British sheep farmer and living in  Australia  , he has Socialist views. He and Rose meet at a tram, in april 1914 when he accidentally sat down on a cake that they had. Soon they begin an affair and within a week, on 12 april, goes with him Rose agreement to go back to Australia and to be his wife, but they consider themselves at the last minute. After the outbreak of the war, he becomes a sergeant, involved in the battle of  Gallipoli  . During leave in London in 1916, are looking for Rose on and they agree to get married if the war ends. However, later in 1916, he is shot by a sniper while returning from patrol. He let Rose £ 1200 according to his will.