Lydia Leonard
Lydia Leonard
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lydia Leonard (born 5 December 1980) is a British actress. She was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and Anglo-French father, a financial accountant; she lived in France until the age of five. Originally, Leonard wanted to be a barrister, which she considers to be a profession very similar to acting onstage. Her first acting role was in Nativity spectacle in school, where she played King Herod. Leonard went from Bedales School to graduate from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2003, and then won a BBC Radio Drama Carleton Hobbs bursary. Her radio credits include playing Lady Mabel in a twelve-part adaptation of Anthony Trollope's series of political novels, and Goodwill in The Pilgrim's Progress. On television she had an ongoing role in 50s-set detective series Jericho starring Robert Lindsay, and appeared in True True Lie (2006) and The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), along with a cameo in Rome (2006, The Stolen Eagle), and as a nurse in the BBC's Casualty 1909. Leonard appeared on stage as Polyxena in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hecuba starring Vanessa Redgrave and alongside Francesca Annis in the National Theatre's production of Time and the Conways. In 2005 Leonard appeared as Caroline Cushing in the original Donmar Theatre and West End productions of Frost/Nixon. In 2008 Leonard played a major role in the BBC re-make of The 39 Steps. Part of the Christmas scheduling, its first showing was the most watched program on BBC One on that day. Leonard starred as Cynthia in Joanna Hogg's 2010 feature film Archipelago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lydia Leonard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
34
Gender
Female
Birthday
1981-12-05 (43 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Acting

2024

A Very Royal Scandal as Esme Wren

2023

Northern Comfort as Sarah

2022

Ten Percent as Rebecca Fox

2021

We Are Lady Parts as Clarice

2021

Red Election as Beatrice Ogilvy

2020

McDonald & Dodds as Lucy Holgate

2020

Flesh and Blood as Natalie

2020

Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall as Self - Reader (voice)

2019

Last Christmas as Marta Andrich

2019

Gentleman Jack as Mariana Lawton

2017

Absentia as Laurie Colson

2017

Apple Tree Yard as Bonnard

2017

Quacks as Caroline Lessing

2016

The Crown as Cherie Blair

2016

The Prevailing Winds as The Hiker

2015

Wolf Hall as Jane Rochford

2015

River as Marianne King

2015

Life In Squares as Young Virginia Woolf

2013

The Fifth Estate as Alex Lang

2013

Born Of War as Olivia

2013

Lucan as Melissa

2013

Playdate as Not available

2011

Archipelago as Cynthia

2008

The 39 Steps as Victoria Sinclair

2008

Ashes to Ashes as Sara Templeton

2006

True True Lie as Dana

2006

The Line of Beauty as Penny Kent

2005

Rome as Julia

2005

Jericho as Angela

2002

Foyle's War as Marion Greenwood

2002

Spooks as Martha Ford

1997

Midsomer Murders as Phoebe Frears