Allen Leech’s Daughter Wants a Trip to Downton Abbey
Allen Leech’s Youngest Is “Working It Out” That Dad’s a Star , and She Wants Him to Take Her to Downton Abbey (Exclusive)
Youngest daughter recognizes her father’s fame
Allen Leech’s smallest superfan is calling her shot , Dad’s famous, and she’s ready to reap the perks.
The Downton Abbey favorite, 44, says his younger daughter , born in late 2022 , suddenly clocked his face all over Los Angeles while he’s promoting Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. And now she’s connecting the dots.
“It’s kind of hitting her now that all the posters are up and stuff, and she’s finding that kind of , I think she’s working it out,” Leech tells PEOPLE.
His wife, actress Jessica Blair Herman, 38, jumps in with the assist. “She’s seen the pictures show up on our digital frame, and she said to Allen the other day, ‘What does it feel like?’ You know?” Herman says. “And I think that it’s the first time she’s processing like, ‘Other people can see my dad.’”
“And she’s very proud. It’s very sweet,” Herman adds.
Request to visit Downton Abbey
The Imitation Game star says those eye-level bus-stop takeovers sparked an even bigger ask: a pilgrimage to the Crawleys’ world.
“Our youngest [thought] that the Downton Abbey themed bus stops in L.A. [were] Downton Abbey, so she [kept] wanting to stop and go to see [it],” Leech explains. “Now she really knows that it’s a real castle. She’s like, ‘I want to go to Downton Abbey,’ the real one in England.”
Leech is game to make it happen. The couple’s eldest has already checked it off her list thanks to perfect timing. “We were able to take our eldest because you guys were filming the first movie,” Herman recalls. “Yeah, but our youngest hasn’t, but she will,” Leech promises.
Family milestones and relationship history
Expanding their family
Leech, who stars as Tom Branson in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, previously revealed he and Herman were expanding their family at the 2022 premiere of Downton Abbey: A New Era. He told PEOPLE at the time, “I’m very happy to say I’m very happily married and expecting our second child.”
Wedding and how they met
Leech and Herman tied the knot in January 2019 in California’s Santa Ynez Valley, according to HELLO!. That same month, Leech told PEOPLE how their love story kicked off on a dance floor at an Entertainment Weekly SAG Awards afterparty three years earlier. “A friend of mine, Tom, we were about to leave the party and being Irish and having two rubber arms, he said, ‘Do you want one more drink?’” Leech recalled. “And I said, ‘Yeah, okay,’ went in, ordered, turned around, saw this vision in a velvet dress and said, ‘Tommy, I’m going to dance with that girl.’”
Children and recent appearance
They welcomed their first daughter in 2020 and their second daughter in 2022. Most recently, the pair hit the red carpet together at the New York premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale at Jazz at Lincoln Center on September 8, 2025.
