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February 2, 2016 | 04:35PM PT. Dominique McElligott, who most recently starred in ABCâs âAstronaut Wives Club,â has been cast as a series regular in Amazonâs pilot âThe Last Tycoon,â Variety has learned exclusively. She will star alongside Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer and Lily Collins in the period piece drama.
Brown Findlay was the first major cast member to leave the series for pastures new, when her character, the forward thinking Lady Sybil, died in childbirth in the third series. During a 2015 interview, Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes, discussed the plot twist, Jessica [Brown Findlay, who played Sybil,] had said she was going to leave right from the beginning. She said, I'm doing three years, then I'm leaving, So that was all worked out, Fellowes said of Lady Sybil's death, which occurred shortly after she gave birth to her and Tom Branson's baby daughter.