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    Downton Abbey: Meet Lady Mary's New Beau! Plus: Get a First Look at Season 4

    By Michael Ausiello | TVLine.com – Sat, Mar 2, 2013 1:44 PM PST

    Matthew who?

    Downton Abbey has tapped Welsh actor Tom Cullen to join the show’s Season 4 cast as a love interest for Michelle Dockery’s grieving widow, Lady Mary.

    Cullen, whose credits include the 2011 gay indie pic Weekend, will play a role TVLine first told you about back in January, that of Lord Gillingham, an old family friend of the Crawleys who has known Lady Mary since childhood.

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    Other new Season 4 additions include Dame Harriet Walters as an old friend of Maggie Smith’s Dowager and Nigle Harman as a visiting valet named Green.

    NBC Universal’s Carnival Films, which produces Abbey, also confirmed Saturday that Shirley MacLaine will reprise her role as Cora’s (Elizabeth McGovern) mother in Season 4′s Christmas episode.

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    Scroll down for a first look at Lady Mary clutching the child she spawned with Matthew before his untimely demise, and then hit the comments with an answer to this question: Is LM trading up… or down?


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