Lydia Leonard Biography
Lydia Leonard is a British stage, film, and television actor best known for her appearances in the theatrical adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies, as well as the television shows Ten Percent and The Crown.
How old is Lydia Leonard? – Age
She is 42 years old as of 5 December 2023. She was born in 1981 in Paris, France.
Lydia Leonard Family – Education
Leonard was born in Paris to an Irish mother, a teacher, and an Anglo-French father, an accountant; she was raised in France until the age of five. She attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Lydia Leonard Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Lydia Leonard Career
Starting her vocation in the theater, Leonard played Anne Boleyn in the Imperial Shakespeare Organization’s development of Hilary Shelf’s Wolf Lobby and Raise the Bodies at London’s Aldwych Theater from May until October 2014. The RSC creation moved to Broadway as Wolf Lobby: Parts One and Two at the Colder time of year Nursery Theater, running from Spring until July 2015. Leonard repeated the job, which procured her a designation for the 2015 Tony Grant for Best Highlighted Entertainer in a Play.
On TV she played a continuous part in 1950s-set criminal investigator series Jericho featuring Robert Lindsay, and showed up in Obvious Genuine Untruth (2006) and The Long Stroll to Finchley (2008), alongside an appearance in Rome (2006, “The Taken Falcon”), and as a medical caretaker in the BBC’s Loss 1909.
Leonard showed up in front of an audience as Polyxena in a Regal Shakespeare Organization creation of Hecuba featuring Vanessa Redgrave, the creation played in London’s West End and afterward at B.A.M in New York. She played Hazel Conway close by Francesca Annis in the Public Theater’s development of Time and the Conways. In 2005 she showed up as Caroline Cushing in the first Donmar Theater and West End creations of Ice/Nixon. In 2010 Leonard assumed the part of Jackie Onassis in Martin Sherman’s play Onassis at the Novello Theater in London.
In 2008 Leonard played the female lead in the BBC revamp of The 39 Stages. A piece of the Christmas planning, its most memorable showing was the most watched program on BBC One on that day. Leonard featured as Cynthia in Joanna Hogg’s 2010 element film Archipelago. In 2012, Leonard featured in two episodes of ITV show series Whitechapel, as specialist Morgan Sheep, for which she was designated for Most Exceptional Entertainer at the Monte Carlo TV grants. In 2013, Leonard assumed a main part in the activity experience film Unbelievable: Burial place of the Winged serpent close by Dolph Lundgen and Scott Adkins. Around the same time, Leonard played Alex Lang in DreamWorks The Fifth Domain featuring Benedict Cumberbatch. In 2015, Leonard played Virginia Woolf in Life in Squares, a BBC miniseries on the Bloomsbury Gathering.
Somewhere in the range of 2019 and 2022, Leonard showed up as Mariana Lawton in Courteous fellow Jack.
In 2022, Leonard featured as Rebecca Fox in 10%, the English form of the French unique, Call My Agent!.[6] That very year, Leonard showed up as Cherie Blair in series 5 of Netflix dramatization The Crown. On playing Blair, Leonard told the Night Standard, I have a gigantic measure of regard for her. […] It’s tomfoolery playing somebody truly popular. It brings its own advantage from the more extensive crowd and obligation. Equitably I ought to think often about playing a genuine living individual, however I don’t, it’s simply one more person.”
In Walk 2023, Leonard featured as in Ladies, Be careful Satan at the Almeida Theater, London. The creation was evaluated 3/5 stars by The Gatekeeper.
Lydia Leonard Movies
♦ 2004 – The Heat of the Story
♦ 2006 – True True Lie
♦ 2008 – The 39 Steps
♦ 2010 – Archipelago
♦ 2016 – The Prevailing Winds
♦ 2019 – Last Christmas
♦ 2023 – Northern Comfort
Lydia Leonard TV Shows
♦ 2004 – Foyle’s War
♦ 2005 – Rome
♦ 2006 – The Line of Beauty
♦ 2008 – Ashes to Ashes
♦ 2009 – Casualty 1909
♦ 2011 – Spooks
♦ 2012 – Law & Order UK
♦ 2013 – Ambassadors
♦ 2015 – Life in Squares
♦ 2017 – Apple Tree Yard
♦ 2017–2019 – Absentia
♦ 2019–2022 – Gentleman Jacks
♦ 2020 – Flesh and Blood
♦ 2021 – Red Election
♦ 2022 – Ten Percent
♦ 2022–2023 – The Crown
♦ 2024 – McDonald & Dodds