Downton Abbey actress Joanne Froggatt definitely nailed a stirring performance, enough to earn her a well-deserved win as best supporting actress for TV at the 72^nd Golden Globe Awards.

The annual awards ceremony which honors movie and television works was held Sunday at Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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Froggatt's success came all the more sweeter given that she played the bitter, traumatic experience her character had endured through the drama series' fourth season.

According to Froggatt, she believed she need to give a tough sense of responsibility to her character, who was a rape victim.

Upon finding out that her character, the maid Anna Bates, would be sexually assaulted, Froggatt conducted a research so she'll have an idea on how working-class women of the 1920s handled such issues.

"This is this is a big responsibility," Froggatt said in an interview after she received her first Globe trophy.

While her character may be fictional, Froggatt believes that there may be people who have gone through such traumatic experiences.

"My worst fear was for people to watch and feel that I wasn't honest," she said.

One of the painful realizations that Froggatt's character had to endure was that she has no one to tell what happened to her in the Downton kitchen.

Froggatt questioned the decision, but the show's historical adviser told her that working class women during those times would rather not divulge the crime.

Definitely what happened to her character took her some time to "get my head around what it meant to be a working-class woman in the 1920s."

After the rape episode was shown, a barrage of letters from women who have been rape victims sent her touching letters.

"This is something very removed from what I usually do for a living," she said, finding those letter as among the "most special letters I've ever received in my life."

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