Emma Lowndes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia Emma Lowndes is an English actress, known for portraying Bella Gregson in Cranford and Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre. Background Raised in Irlam, Salford, Lowndes attended Irlam Primary School and Urmston Grammar, where she was Head Girl. She studied English at the University of York before training at RADA, graduating in 2000. Her training was partly funded by the Salford Sports and Arts Trust, established by Albert Finney and Harold Riley to assist the city’s young talent. Lowndes is the eldest of three siblings born to Eric and Suzanne Lowndes. She has a younger brother, footballer Nathan Lowndes, and a sister, Katie Lowndes. Career Lowndes’ television credits include Waking the Dead, Burn It, Afterlife, Doctors and Moving On. She also played Mary Rivers in the 2006 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre, and Bella Gregson in Cranford.
