Lydia Leonard

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1981-12-05 (44 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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 ...

Acting

2011

Archipelago

as Cynthia

2008

The 39 Steps

as Victoria Sinclair

2006

2023

2013

Born Of War

as Olivia

2013

The Fifth Estate

as Alex Lang

2016

2019

Last Christmas

as Marta Andrich

2020

Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall

as Self - Reader (voice)

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