To legions of viewers, Michelle Dockery is the prim and proper heiress Lady Mary Talbot from Downton Abbey, a persona she successfully shed to play Laurie Barber, the mother at the center

To legions of viewers, Michelle Dockery is the prim and proper heiress Lady Mary Talbot from Downton Abbey, a persona she successfully shed to play Laurie Barber, the mother at the center of Defending Jacob, a crime drama miniseries.

"I just loved the whole different genre for me. I've never sort of done this type of genre before. I love crime genre, it was, it was really fun to be in something like this, which is quite different from anything else I've done. And I loved being in Boston, I really enjoyed working there, such great people and just a really, really fun city to be in. So, it was a different experience, in some ways not any different. But, yeah, it was really great experience," Dockery told E! News.