Lydia Leonard

Lydia Leonard

Born: December 5, 1981
in Paris, France
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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.

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Northern Comfort
Title: Northern Comfort
Character: Sarah
Released: August 9, 2023
Type: Movie
A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course's final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly.
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Title: Ten Percent
Character: Rebecca Fox
Released: April 28, 2022
Type: TV
A London talent agency’s employees must scramble to keep their star clients happy and their business afloat after the sudden death of their founder.
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Title: Red Election
Character: Beatrice Ogilvy
Released: October 3, 2021
Type: TV
Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy are thrown together in a race against time. As a terrorist plot against the British PM unfolds, Poulson and Ogilvy are tangled up in a web of lies, murder and power struggles; they can't trust anyone, and they soon realise the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.
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Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
Title: Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
Character: Readings
Released: March 7, 2020
Type: Movie
One of the world’s greatest living writers - Hilary Mantel - delves into her past and present, intertwining the themes of the Wolf Hall trilogy with stories from her own life.
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Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Natalie
Released: February 24, 2020
Type: TV
Three adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother, Vivien, declares she is in love with a new man. The tension his presence creates threatens to drag the whole family towards tragedy, and perhaps crime.
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Last Christmas
Title: Last Christmas
Character: Marta Andrich
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
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Title: Gentleman Jack
Character: Mariana Lawton
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: TV
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
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Title: Absentia
Character: Laurie Colson
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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Title: Quacks
Character: Caroline Lessing
Released: August 15, 2017
Type: TV
A raucous comedy set in Victorian London about four medical pioneers fighting to make a mark on the world.
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Title: Apple Tree Yard
Character: Bonnard
Released: January 22, 2017
Type: TV
What starts out as a simple, reckless mid-life affair between a genetic scientist named Yvonne and a Westminster paper pusher takes an intriguing turn when she realizes he’s a spook – then suddenly gets very dark indeed. A provocative study of obsession, longing and just how far down a criminal path desire can take you.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Cherie Blair
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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The Prevailing Winds
Title: The Prevailing Winds
Character: The Hiker
Released: October 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A lone hiker searches for her sister across moorland, despite an invisible and deadly threat in the air.
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Title: Life In Squares
Character: Young Virginia Woolf
Released: July 27, 2015
Type: TV
The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.
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Title: Lucan
Character: Melissa
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: TV
Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter, the prime suspect, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, mysteriously disappears. When the manhunt begins, the subsequent scandal shakes the foundations of the British ruling class like never before.
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Born Of War
Title: Born Of War
Character: Olivia
Released: December 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Mina, a young college student, has her life ripped away after her family is killed. When she finds out their murder was part of a botched kidnapping to return her to her real father—a terrorist in the middle east.
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The Fifth Estate
Title: The Fifth Estate
Character: Alex Lang
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon
Title: Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon
Character: Katie
Released: May 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn't supposed to exist ... their mission to capture a Cryptid which is wreaking havoc in a remote village and they need to do this before it is killed by Harker, the legendary bounty hunter.
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Playdate
Title: Playdate
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Playground politics soon boil over when Paul and Kate excitedly arrive for dinner at the home of a cool couple from their kids’ school, only to discover an interloping third couple already in attendance.
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Archipelago
Title: Archipelago
Character: Cynthia
Released: March 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Victoria Sinclair
Released: December 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must personally crack.
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Title: The Line of Beauty
Character: Penny Kent
Released: May 17, 2006
Type: TV
Crawl deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain, seen through the eyes and experiences of a young, gay man, from the euphoria of falling in love to the tragedy of AIDS. A story of love, class, sex and money.
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True True Lie
Title: True True Lie
Character: Dana
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
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Title: Jericho
Character: Angela
Released: October 16, 2005
Type: TV
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958.
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Title: Rome
Character: Julia
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: TV
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
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Title: Foyle's War
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: TV
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Martha Ford
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Phoebe Frears
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.