MyAnna Buring and Simone Lahbib Set to Serve Downton Abbey

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Lord Grantham keeps it eclectic in the Abbey and the latest additions to the servant staff at Downton Abbey stays true to that theme. While most of the talk between Downton seasons involving new characters for season 3 has revolved around Shirley MacLaine’s entry as the american step mom, we now have two more new faces to announce in MyAnna Buring and Simone Lahbib.

Both Buring and Lahbib are set to start their service during the holiday, making their debuts during a  Downton Abbey Christmas special. MyAnna, who is fine as hell, plays a vampire of the Denali Coven in Twilight Breaking Dawn and one of the stars of the great horror film The Descent,  will assume the role of Edna, who is described as “forward thinking”.  Lahbib, whom English viewers will recognize from Wire in the Blood and Bad Girls, takes on the role of Lady’s maid Wilkins.

Other news roles already filled for Downton Abbey series 3 include Matt Milne as Alfred, O’Brien’s nephew and the new footman, Cara Theobald as the new kitchen maid Ivy, and Lucille Sharp as Martha Levinson’s (Shirely Maclaine) lady’s maid Miss Reed.

Downton Abbey returns to English airwaves this  September.