Richard E Grant is among several new actors joining the cast of television period drama Downton Abbey for its fifth series.
He will play Simon Bricker, who visits Downton Abbey as a guest of the Grantham family.
Anna Chancellor, who starred as Henrietta in Four Weddings And A Funeral, joins as Lady Anstruther, while Rade Sherbedgia, who has appeared in films such as Eyes Wide Shut and Mission: Impossible II, will play a Russian refugee.
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