As confirmed by the Radio Times, Daisy Lewis is set to join the cast of hit ITV period drama for the upcoming series 4, currently being filmed in the UK for transmission this Autumn in the UK and beginning January 5, 2014 on PBS in the States.
 

Lewis is one of a host of new characters joining the show, including Paul Giamatti as Lady Cora’s playboy brother, opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as a house guest, former EastEnder Nigel Harman as a visiting valet and Death In Paradise star Gary Carr as a jazz singer (and speculated love interest for Lady Rose, the rebellious great-niece of the Dowager Countess, Violet Crawley) when the series returns for eight episodes and a Christmas special later this year.
 

The British actress, know for her roles in Doctor Who, Inspector Lewis, the British situation comedy, After You’ve Gone, and the upcoming PBS Masterpiece adaptation of The Lady Vanishes, will star in the fourth series of the world’s most favorite period drama series.

Rumor is she will play the Crawley’s live-in nanny who’ll look after baby Sybil as well as Mary’s new arrival. But her plot lines won’t be confined to the nursery. OF course not, that’s why they call it a DRAMA. Apparently Lewis is set to becoming the first lady to warm Branson’s broken heart since his wife, Lady Sybil, died in childbirth (sorry if you haven’t seen series 3 yet and this spoiled it for you).

Branson, who is played by Alan Leech, started off as the Crawley’s chauffeur before falling for and marrying the family’s youngest sister Sybil. He toyed with a new romance in the 2012 Christmas special when new maid Edna took a liking to him before deciding that he wasn’t ready to move on.

While Lewis is being ‘added’ to the cast, it will be somewhat of an ‘old-home week’ feeling for Lewis when she joins the cast as she worked with several Downton mainstays in her first feature film, From Time to Time. The 2009 film British adventure film was directed by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and starred Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville.