{"id":5082006,"date":"2023-04-25T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/?p=5082006"},"modified":"2023-04-25T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T02:55:14","slug":"michelle-dockery-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/michelle-dockery-husband-5082006\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Dockery\u2019s Future Husband Jasper Waller-Bridge: Meet The \u2018Downton Abbey\u2019 Star\u2019s Fianc\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217; star Michelle Dockery is a heart-stopper on and off the screen, but did you know she&#8217;s engaged? Learn all about her fianc\u00e9e, Jasper Waller-Bridge, here!<\/h3>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-1\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Michelle Dockery is an English actress known for her work on <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>She is engaged to Jasper Waller-Bridge.<\/li>\n<li>The starlet was previously engaged to the late actor John Dineen.<\/li>\n<li>Michelle and Jasper announced their engagement in Jan. 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/downton-abbey\/\"  ><em>Downton Abbey<\/em><\/a> star\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/celeb\/michelle-dockery\/\"  ><strong>Michelle Dockery<\/strong><\/a>, 41, is a successful actress most known for her work as the character Lady Mary Crawley. A few of Michelle&#8217;s other works include\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/downton-abbey-2-4390139\/\"  ><em>Downton Abbey: A New Era<\/em><\/a>, <em>The Gentlemen<\/em>, <em>Godless<\/em>, and more. During her impressive career, the brunette beauty has gone on to earn several prestigious nominations including multiple <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/09\/12\/emmys-winners-2022-who-won-emmy-awards\/\"  >Emmy nominations<\/a> and a <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2023\/01\/10\/golden-globes-winners-2023-who-won-awards\/\"  >Golden Globe nomination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5082031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5082031\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5082031 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Michelle-Dockery-Jasper-Waller-Bridge-embed.jpg?resize=620%2C933\" alt=\"michelle dockery husband\" width=\"620\" height=\"933\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5082031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Dockery &amp; Jasper Waller-Bridge got engaged in Jan. 2022. (James Veysey\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">Aside from her successful career in film and TV, Michelle has also been in the headlines for her romantic life. Most recently, she <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/01\/20\/michelle-dockery-engaged-jasper-waller-bridge-announcement\/\"  >got engaged<\/a> to\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/fleabag-season-3-4365320\/\"  ><em>Fleabag\u00a0<\/em><\/a>star\u00a0<strong>Phoebe Waller-Bridge<\/strong>&#8216;s brother,\u00a0<strong>Jasper Waller-Bridge<\/strong>, in 2022. Prior to that, she was engaged to the late actor,\u00a0<strong>John Dineen<\/strong>, until his <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/pics\/shocking-celebrity-deaths-pics\/\"  >sudden passing<\/a> in 2015. Keep reading to learn more about her current man and her previous engagement!<\/p>\n<h2>Michelle Dockery&#8217;s Fiancee Jasper Waller-Bridge<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5082033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5082033\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5082033 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Michelle-Dockery-Jasper-Waller-Bridge-embed-3.jpg?resize=620%2C641\" alt=\"michelle and jasper\" width=\"620\" height=\"641\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5082033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Dockery &amp; Jasper Waller-Bridge met through mutual friends. (James Veysey\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Michelle announced her engagement to Jasper in Jan. 2022, after they had been dating for about three years. &#8220;The engagement is announced between Jasper, son of <strong>Michael Waller-Bridge<\/strong> of King&#8217;s Lynn, Norfolk, and <strong>Teresa Waller-Bridge<\/strong> of Battersea, London, and Michelle, younger daughter of <strong>Michael<\/strong> and <strong>Lorraine Dockery<\/strong> of Gidea Park, Essex,&#8221; their announcement given to the U.K&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/births-marriages-and-deaths-january-20-2022-qbvnfbjpk\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener nofollow\"  data-component=\"link\"  data-source=\"inlineLink\"  data-type=\"externalLink\"  data-ordinal=\"1\"  >The Times<\/a><\/em> read at the time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">Although the 41-year-old and Jasper did attend the Rome Film Festival together later that year, they did not make their official red carpet debut until the <em><a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/04\/15\/anatomy-of-a-scandal-ending-explained-spoilers\/\"  >Anatomy of a Scandal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>world premiere in Apr. 2022. Michelle and her man do not have any official social media accounts, so their romantic life is relatively low-key and out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<h2>How They Met<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cpki7_PPruC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cpki7_PPruC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\"  style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\"  target=\"_blank\"  > <\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display:block;height:50px;margin:0 auto 12px;width:50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color:#3897f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;line-height:18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cpki7_PPruC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\"  style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\"  target=\"_blank\"  >A post shared by Michelle Dockery | Fanpage\ud83d\udc97 (@michelledockery.fanpage)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">When the lovebirds announced their <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/pics\/celebrity-engagements-2023-photos\/\"  >engagement<\/a> last year (see engagement ring above), <em>The Times\u00a0<\/em>also included a sweet anecdote about how the pair first met in 2019. Michelle and Jasper were actually introduced by a mutual friend and the rest is simply history! In May 2022 Michelle confirmed to\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c2Yghei57RU\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  >EXTRA TV<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that she and her soon-to-be hubby were indeed working on <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/pics\/secret-celebrity-weddings-photos\/\"  >wedding plans<\/a>. &#8220;We are,&#8221; she quipped, however she kept her lips sealed about any further details.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">Although Jasper is not an A-list actor like his sibling and fianc\u00e9, he does work in the same industry! He is currently a producer at Day One Pictures, per his <a  href=\"https:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/jasperwallerbridge\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  >Linkedin profile<\/a>. He also impressively co-founded the company in 2020 and also works as talent manager in London.<\/p>\n<h2>Her Prior Engagement To John Dineen<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5082035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5082035\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5082035 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Michelle-Dockery-michelle-dockery-John-Dineen-embed.jpg?resize=620%2C932\" alt=\"michelle and john\" width=\"620\" height=\"932\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5082035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dineen &amp; Michelle Dockery were engaged prior to his death in 2015. (Alan Davidson\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">This is not the first time that Michelle has been engaged, as she and the late Irish actor, John Dineen nearly tied the knot as well. Unfortunately, their romance had a tragic end when John suddenly passed away due to a battle with cancer at the age of 34, per\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/michelle-dockerys-fianc-john-dineen-dies-at-34\/\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  ><em>PEOPLE<\/em><\/a>. At the time, Michelle thanked the public for their \u201csupport and kindness\u201d in an official statement following his death, and added that she \u201ckindly request that they are left to grieve in private.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-11\">John died at Marymount Hospice in Cork with his then-fianc\u00e9 at his side. The duo were introduced by Michelle&#8217;s co-star\u00a0<strong>Allen Leech<br \/>\n<\/strong>and dated from 2013 until his passing just two years later. In Sept. 2014, she briefly gushed about him, via\u00a0<em>PEOPLE<\/em>, and noted, \u201cI have a wonderful man in my life from Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217; star Michelle Dockery is a heart-stopper on and off the screen, but did you know she&#8217;s engaged? Learn all about her fianc\u00e9e, Jasper Waller-Bridge, here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191609855,"featured_media":5082030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exclude_post_from_river":false,"_cr_original_post":"","_cr_replace_post_id":"","_cr_replacing_post_id":"","mt_seo_title":"Michelle Dockery\u2019s Husband: All About Her Fianc\u00e9e Jasper Waller-Bridge","mt_seo_description":"'Downton Abbey' star Michelle Dockery has been engaged multiple times. 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