Lydia Leonard
Actor
Born December 5, 1981 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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.
Filmography
Secret Service
Amanda Walker
Pretty Lethal
Miss Thorna
A Woman of Substance
Olivia Wainwright
Down Cemetery Road
Defence Minister Talia Ross
A Very Royal Scandal
Esme Wren
Northern Comfort
Sarah
Ten Percent
Rebecca Fox
Red Election
Beatrice Ogilvy
We Are Lady Parts
Clarice
Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
Self - Reader (voice)
McDonald & Dodds
Lucy Holgate
Flesh and Blood
Natalie
Last Christmas
Marta Andrich
Gentleman Jack
Mariana Lawton
Absentia
Laurie Colson
Quacks
Caroline Lessing
Apple Tree Yard
Bonnard
The Crown
Cherie Blair
The Prevailing Winds
The Hiker
River
Marianne King
Life In Squares
Young Virginia Woolf
Wolf Hall
Jane Rochford
Lucan
Melissa
Born of War
Olivia
The Fifth Estate
Alex Lang
Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon
Katie
Archipelago
Cynthia
The 39 Steps
Victoria Sinclair
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Joyce
Ashes to Ashes
Sara Templeton
The Line of Beauty
Penny Kent
True True Lie
Dana
Jericho
Angela
Rome
Julia
Foyle's War
Marion Greenwood
Spooks
Martha Ford
Midsomer Murders
Phoebe Frears