Joanne Froggatt Reveals a Darker Side

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🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *Dark Angel.

Fans of “Downton Abbey’s” Anna Bates were likely spooked by Joanne Froggatt’s character in “Dark Angel”: the manipulative real-life serial killer Mary Ann Cotton. In this episode, MASTERPIECE Studio dissects Mary Ann’s motives, and pulls back the curtain on Joanne Froggatt’s darkest role to date.

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0:37.0	If you're a masterpiece fan, you'd recognize actor Joanne Froggett
0:41.0	for her work as Anna Bates,
0:42.7	Downton Abbey's dependable ladies made.
0:45.5	Now Joanne Froggett is back on masterpiece as Mary Anne Cotton.
0:49.8	Both Anna Bates and Mary Ann Cotton
0:51.4	deal with their fair share of trauma and murder.
0:55.6	But while Downton Abbey's Anna Bates has a heart of gold, Dark Angels Mary and Cotton
1:00.0	has, well, something else inside her.
1:03.2	There's a darkness in you, Marion.
1:06.2	Unlike Anna Bates, Mary Ann Cotton actually was a murderer,
1:09.8	and one even more prolific than Jack the Ripper.
1:13.3	By some estimates, Mary Ann Cotton killed as many as 21 people.
1:17.7	Under Mary Ann's watch, four husbands, 14 children,
1:20.6	her lover, her mother, and her friend all got sick and died. And though some of those
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