Meanwhile, Dockery had several opportunities to play against type, including in two of three parts to the 'Red Riding Trilogy' (Channel 4, 2009), where she had a supporting roles as a policewoman helping to track down a serial killer.In 2011, Dockery appeared in the feature film 'Hanna,' about a 16-year-old girl (Saoirse Ronan) who was raised by her father (Eric Bana) to be the perfect assassin and is being tracked down by a ruthless C.I.A. She played Susan Death, a schoolteacher who reluctantly battles various malignant forces after inheriting her grandfather's supernatural powers. In 2006, Dockery starred in the two-part TV movie 'Hogfather,' based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld (1983) series of fantasy novels.

Since then, she was often cast as the a girl or privilege in projects like the made-for-TV drama 'Cranford' (BBC, 2007) and in 'The Turn of the Screw,' where she played a sexually repressed governess who believes she is haunted by the ghosts of a mansion's former tenants. Early in her career, she earned rave reviews for her stage performances, including a portrayal of Eliza Doolittle in Peter Hall's production of 'Pygmalion' (2008). Dockery also studied for 14 months at London's National Theatre.

She worked in a variety of after-school and weekend jobs to pay for her education at the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated in 2004.

Born in Essex, England, Dockery grew up in Romford, East London, England, where she was raised by her father, Michael, and her mother, Lorraine.

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