When we first met Matthew Crawley, he seemed every inch the perfect English gentleman — calm, kind, and quietly noble. But here’s the twist: the man behind ’s most honorable heir wasn’t born into aristocracy at all.

Dan Stevens’ journey began far from the world of stately homes and family estates. Born in Croydon and adopted at birth, he grew up in a middle-class family and attended a boarding school on scholarship.
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