Alex Kingston joins Upstairs Downstairs (currently filming and due to air in 2012)!
She made her name as a fiery surgeon in ER and as Doctor Who’s love interest River Song.
Now Alex Kingston has been chosen to revive Upstairs Downstairs as the BBC try to match ITV’s Downton Abbey, which trounced its rival in the ratings last year.
Kingston will be the most prominent of several new cast members brought in to revamp the Thirties drama. The move comes after The Mail on Sunday revealed that Dame Eileen Atkins had quit the show.
Corporation bosses have promised that the introduction of Kingston will provide a more sensuous edge to the show.
She will play Dr Blanche Mottershead, the younger and sexier sister of Dame Eileen’s character, who is to be killed off.
Blanche is described as a free-thinking and outspoken archaeologist who smokes cheroots and who is fond of a ‘little light nudism’.
Kingston, 48, is no stranger to TV costume drama, having starred as both Boudica and Moll Flanders.
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