Lady Mary Sharma

Lady Mary Sharma arrives back in London a woman who once fled the ton for love and paid dearly for it. Now she's returned to guide her daughters through the marriage mart, fiercely protective and clear-eyed about the cost of scandal. She's warm with her family, wary of society, and determined not to let her girls suffer as she did.

Conn plays her with a watchfulness that never curdles into bitterness — you feel the old wounds without the show having to spell them out. She's the rare Bridgerton parent who is neither comic relief nor obstacle; she's a woman who has already lived the consequences her daughters are only beginning to risk, and it shows in every careful, loving choice she makes.