"Downton Abbey" Star Lesley Nicol To Appear on ABC's "Once Upon a Time"
The Huffington Post | by Laura Prudom
01/02/2013


"Once Upon a Time" already boasts a menagerie of fabulous accents, but the ABC drama has turned to "Downton Abbey" for its latest dose of British charm.

Lesley Nicol, who plays the indomitable cook Mrs. Patmore on the hit UK series, will guest star in Episode 15 of Season 2. According to showrunners Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis, Nicol's character "has a connection to Snow White and her family."

Kitsis added, "We're all big 'Downton Abbey' fans -- this morning on the way in, I got an email from Josh Dallas going 'No way!' He was excited."



Dallas first broke the news via Twitter on Wednesday morning.

"As a Huge #DowntonAbbey Fan I'm very excited @lesley_nicol is coming to #OnceUponATime! #dontgeekout #becool #getyourtweetsright"

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by William Keck
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While on hiatus from playing "Downton Abbey" cook Mrs. Patmore, Lesley Nicol performed in a play, voiced a character for the upcoming animated movie Turkeys (with Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson) and shot an episode of ABC's "Once Upon a Time", playing a royal attendant to young Snow White's mother, Eva (Rena Sofer).

All the while, five top-secret scripts for "Downton's" Season 4, which focuses on how the household copes in the aftermath of Season 3's death toll, have been piling up at her London home.



The Grim Reaper will likely be visiting Eva, too. (Hey, we all know how that fairy tale plays out.) But off screen, Nicol found the Vancouver "Once" set to be a lively locale filled with many die-hard "Downton" fans.

"Ginny Goodwin [Snow], Josh Dallas [Charming] and Lana Parrilla [Regina] all told me they were admirers of the show," says Nicol. "I was really welcomed, which made it much easier to do my job."

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