She’s usually seen in period dress portraying Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey.

But Jessica Brown Findlay has undergone a dramatic makeover appearing on the cover of Love magazine.

The 22-year-old actress appears dressed in an ethereal style sporting messy hair embellished with flowers, pale skin, smokey eyes and dark red lips.

Jessica smoulders on the cover dressed in a plunging crumpled dress with her incandescent skin glowing in the light.

The shoot, styled by LOVE Editor-in-chief Katie Grand, is a far cry from the primped and proper character Jessica famously portrays.

After the otherworldly look is also a far cry from her usual English rose style in real life.

Jessica is no stranger to sporting a dark and mysterious look and in February she appeared in a haunting series of snaps for Dominic Jones jewellery.

Brown Findlay started her career as a ballet dancer, training with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet.

When she was 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.

During her final two years of school she had three operations on her ankles. The last one went wrong and when Brown Findlay woke up from the anaesthetic, she was told she would never dance again.

Not one to be deterred, the budding artist applied to St Martin's in London and got onto their highly regarded Fine Art course.

滬江娛樂(lè)快訊：在《唐頓莊園》（Downton Abbey）中，她是穿著年代戲服的三小姐希珀（Lady Sybil）。但在《Love》雜志中，她的華麗變身堪稱驚艷！近日，22歲的女演員杰西卡·布朗·芬德利（Jessica Brown Findlay）登上《Love》雜志封面。裝點(diǎn)著花朵的蓬松秀發(fā)，潔凈的皮膚，略為煙熏的眼妝，深紅色的嘴唇營(yíng)造出優(yōu)雅的時(shí)尚風(fēng)格。

在封面中，杰西卡身穿裸肩皺褶裙裝，潔白的皮膚在燈光下十分閃耀。該造型由雜志首席主編凱特·格蘭德（Katie Grand）打造，與螢?zāi)簧暇难b扮，得體大方的三小姐有著巨大的差別。這個(gè)超凡脫俗的造型與杰西卡現(xiàn)實(shí)中英倫女孩的清新裝扮也相去甚遠(yuǎn)。但這已經(jīng)不是杰西卡首次駕馭暗黑神秘的造型了。今年二月，她就為Dominic Jones珠寶拍攝了一組氣質(zhì)狂野的宣傳照。

杰西卡以芭蕾舞演員身份出道，曾在國(guó)家青年芭蕾舞劇團(tuán)和皇家芭蕾舞劇團(tuán)接受訓(xùn)練。15歲時(shí)，她受邀與俄羅斯基洛夫芭蕾舞團(tuán)共同在皇家歌劇廳表演夏季芭蕾舞劇。在學(xué)校的最后兩年里，她做了三次腳踝手術(shù)。最后一次手術(shù)出現(xiàn)了失誤。從麻醉中醒過(guò)來(lái)后，她被告知再也不能跳舞了。但這并沒(méi)有阻擋她追求藝術(shù)的腳步，這位冉冉升起的新星被圣馬丁學(xué)院錄取，并獲得了該校最知名的藝術(shù)課程學(xué)位。