The Paisley-born actor says she by no means imagined the present, which is now ending, would change into the worldwide smash hit it did.

Downton Abbey star Phyllis Logan has instructed of her delight at being a part of a present that might be “there for posterity”.

The Paisley-born 69-year-old has performed head housekeeper Mrs Hughes from the primary collection in 2010.

The interval drama grew to become a phenomenon around the globe over 52 episodes in six collection on ITV and three movies, the final of which, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, was proven in cinemas final month.

Phyllis stated: “When one begins on this enterprise, you by no means suppose something will final so long as this, however this has been distinctive in so some ways, personally, but additionally in a single’s work professionally.

“I am unable to consider that it’ll be the precise finish.

“However individuals can nonetheless purchase the DVDs and rewatch the final collection and movies. It’s going to be there for posterity. That is a pleasant feeling, however unhappy that it is by no means going to occur once more.”

Phyllis was Ione of the unique forged together with the likes of Hugh Bonneville, who performed Robert Crawley, the seventh Earl of Grantham, Michelle Dockery as his daughter Girl Mary and the late Dame Maggie Smith, who performed Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham.

Phyllis, a former Johnstone Excessive College pupil – who lately starred in The Bombing of Pan Am 103 as Moria Shearer – stated of the first-ever Downton script: “The factor I favored about it a lot is that you simply obtained straight away the thought of every character and the place they had been going.

“It was so thrilling to learn. I believed Julian (Fellowes, the drama’s author and creator) captured all of the characters simply fantastically in these first three episodes.

“I believed we had been on to one thing right here. In fact, none of us might have predicted it might be the worldwide success it grew to become.”

Phyllis has change into good friends with Jim Carter, whose butler married Mrs Hughes, and Lesley Nicol, who performed Downton’s prepare dinner Mrs Patmore.

The characters did not see eye to eye within the unique collection however grew to become agency mates when Mrs Hughes had a most cancers scare.

Phyllis, who lives in London with actor husband Kevin McNally, stated: “In actual life, Lesley and I are nice mates and dwell very shut to at least one one other. We see one another on a regular basis, and if she moved, I might be distraught.”

Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale is in the stores or lease on digital platforms now.