Season 4 Premiere

In the UK, Downton Abbey premieres on September 22, 2013. In the United States, Downton Abbey premieres on January 5, 2014.

Season 4 Downton Abbey Premiere

The Widowers of Season 4 Downton Abbey

Casting on Season 4 of Downton Abbey

Carnival Films, ITV and PBS MASTERPIECE announce that Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG award-winner Paul Giamatti ( from John Adams, Sideways, Barney’s Version, Cinderella Man) is joining the Downton Abbey series in the Season 4 finale. Giamatti will play Cora’s maverick, playboy brother Harold, starring alongside the iconic Shirley MacLaine and the regular cast members for the dramatic climax to Season 4.

Managing Director Carnival Films and Executive Producer Gareth Neame says: “Downton Abbey has seen many great characters visit the house over the years and we couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome the new faces that will be joining the regular cast of Downton Abbey in Season 4. We hope audiences will be as excited about them as we are.”

Giamatti joins new cast members, including:

Tom Cullen as Lord Gillingham, an old family friend of the Crawleys who visits the family as a guest for a house party

Nigel Harman as Green, a valet

Dame Harriet Walter as Lady Shackleton, an old friend of the Dowager

Joanna David in a guest role as the Duchess of Yeovil

Julian Ovenden as aristocrat Charles Blake

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as a guest who sings in the house

Gary Carr as a jazz singer named Jack Ross